Mickeycrimm, made a great post over at GF today responding to troll and former member here Blackhole. I think mickey's post is worthy of a larger viewership than it will get there, AND I want to comment on it which I won't do there, so I am going to repost mickey's post here and comment.
Originally Posted by Mickey Crimm, post: 162391, member: 440
The demand for proof of AP income always come from non AP's like yourself, with the exception of ditz, of course, who has never gave one hint of what he makes. I don't care what other AP's make. I don't care if people believe I don't make money. It's nothing to me. It's an excercise in futilty to try and convince any non AP of anything. I personally just write what I want to write and if non AP's don't believe it I don't give a fuck. I'm certainly not going to jump thru hoops to convince anyone.
I WAS surprised that ditz suggested that others put up their income tax returns. He's talked about his supposed track record quite a bit but has never divulged anything about how much money he has made at sports betting. I don't care if he makes money or not but he should divulge and put up proof of his own income if he wants others to divulge theirs.
But the problem with posting up information on one's income is that no matter how much proof you provide, it can easily be called a lie. And one thing non AP's like to do is call AP's liars. My suggestion to AP's everywhere is don't put up any information about your income. Fuck the people that don't believe you. Let them live in the dark. You aren't going to convince them of anything anyway. They are dimwitted assholes.
Mickey is correct that few AP's post about what they make, or post pictures of cash (which one adventurous dog did yet again at WoV), or pictures of RV's or safe's with fake cash. I think Rob Singer once posted a video tour of 'his daughter's' house.
I could easily post pictures of cash and chips. I don't play at levels that I would have extremely large amounts of either, but I always have mid 5 figures cash available as part of my BR and I use a chip inventory, so I have a bowl of chips (think large fishbowl) with ten's of thousands of dollars in chips at any given time from up to two dozen casinos or more. What does that even prove? The guy at WoV posted 50k in cash yesterday....does that
prove he won 50K? That is an exercise in nonsense.
I generally agree with mickeycrimm, that people who do this crap as well as even talk about what they win or make, in 99 of 100 cases you can immediately write them down in the 'bullshit' column.
Now I have shared what I make for years. I am that 1 in 100. Mom always said I was special.

But my sharing what kind of money I make was
never about bragging about anything.
It was the exact opposite. I started posting (and sharing) at a time that multiple books and a movie about the MIT team had just come out. And there were videos of different other players and teams like
The Holy Rollers that had just come out, along with other books by solo card counters. These all depicted players and teams making millions of dollars in a short time. I was a solo type card counter, grinding away a mid-level stakes with a focus on longevity and wanted to show and share what kind of money could
really and reasonably be expected and it was far different that all the books, video's and movies were telling players.
So I have no regrets over sharing my results over the years, even though some people never understood my intent. Mixed in my 20 years were years with blackjack win totals of $10,000, $9600, $11,000 (my first 3 years) and years after I moved to Las Vegas of $27,000 and $14,000. While anyone would conclude sharing these numbers and years had anything to do with bragging is one of the crazier things I have seen.
Of course there were good years and periods as well. And that is what differentiates what I shared with the other 99% that share numbers and results. I shared the
good and bad, because I wanted to realistically show what card counting was about. Compare that to someone that only shares win, win win. Good example....Mdawg claims he is on a new Vegas trip. 3 days now. 3 winning, five figure wins at DD blackjack play totaling $81,000. That is just bullshit and exactly why there should be more players showing how things
really work.