kewlJ

[kewlJ]

Just one statement/post alone that he has made is enough for me and many others to believe he is full of s***.

There have been so many of those, but let's just take a look at this one/.... He claims to have 50 hands of black hands of blackjack in a row. Sure he was able to weasel his way out of that statement with Mike by pointing out he used the the word some after the word 50. But, we all know damn well exactly what he was saying and what he meant. How do we know 50 some didn't mean above 50. I mean was it maybe 45, 46 47 48 49 in a row?

You can go back and look at a post where he claims he can do just about every known table games AP move. Shuffle tracking, Ace sequencing, card steering, Counting, Edge sorting, or whatever the f*** he was claiming. I don't remember how many or exactly what, it's probably just the more well-known AP moves that he read or heard about and claimed it.

I do remember him telling a story about how he was invited back to a casino or some nonsense after being kicked out/backed off. He claimed he made some type of nonsense promise to the manager/host or whomever, that he would no longer engage in any type of +Ev shenanigans or whatever. I don't remember exactly what the deal was that he claimed. I just remember reading it and saying what the f*** is this nonsense b*******. And, if that's the case and he's been lying to us about not engaging in that type of stuff anymore. The dude has basically said that he doesn't need Advantage to play to win he just needs to know how to read shoes and whatnot. I'm not going to go back and search at this point, I know what he said, I know what he meant, I know what he was saying.

This is interesting, Axelwolf. To me the 50 straight winning blackjack hands barely registers. The reason is that it is just so preposterous he might just as well of said he flaps his arms and flew to Mars. Same chance. Lots of 'gamblers' and that is what Mdawg is, mis-remember how many of something occurred in a row, thinking they saw something or more of something than they actually did. Perfect example is the late Alan M and his 18 y.o. in a row claim. Usually (but not all cases) this is just mis-remembering or selective memory. I just tend to dismiss such claims.

But the being re-instated at casinos that had previously banned you, is one on my list too. Players just don't talk your way out of this by promising not to play at an advantage any more. Now earlier in my career I did talk my way out of a backoff, as it was happening. First you have to get the pit critter taking action to tell you that you are being backed off because of card counting or advantage play and they rarely do that. Usually they just say something very vague like "management decision" or "too good for us".

So in my case the guy did say something about card counting, some reference, I forget just what. So, I immediately fired back, with "I don't count cards, that doesn't work. I parlay my wagers up on a winning streak" (something many losing players do). he thought about it a little and said "Ok, but I am watching you". The very next time I played with that pit guy he backed me off again and said "and don't try to tell me you are not counting". My conclusion and lesson learned was even if you can talk your way out of a back off or barring, it buys you almost nothing. It is not like they are going to forget or wipe the slate clean. You will be on a very short leash and just made yourself more memorable. Ever since then, when backed off, I just exit quickly and quietly drawing as little attention as possible. You stay away for a period and then see if he remembers you.

Anyway, I went off into my own experience, sorry for that. But yeah Mdawg's claim of talking the casino into re-insting him was one big red flag for me.

Another was the 'loss rebate comment'. Mdawg has flip fops and changed among all sorts of things he has done that could explain his winning over the years. One was loss rebates. BUT only after Axelwolf had brought up loss rebates. Well guess what loss rebates does not explain a player claiming to win 90-95% of his session like this guy does,. The advantage from Loss rebates kicks in when you actual lose.

Like Axewolf said there have been so many red flags, some minor, some major about his claims. Of course another was his $100-$5000 bet spread playing DD blackjack on the strip for 10 straight hours.

And he followed that up with some bizarre claim that he is rainman or rainman-like and remembers every card.

And then you go big picture. The big picture is that this showed up 5 years ago sept 2018. The totality of his claims are that he has won millions, playing rated, while being comped 200-250 nights a year in high end suites and other high end comps. THAT is just not how Las Vegas or the casino industry works. If you win, playing +EV and win long-term, you have to play unrated and attempt to hide it. It is the losing players that are well comped like Mdawg claims. And nothing he says, nor any of the attacks of everyone who dares challenge anything, including real AP's like Axelwolf changes that. It is a now 5 year fiction-fantasy story. Some of it enjoyable to read and fun to pretend, but it just isn't real, and that is what he is claiming.

[kewlJ]

Additionally, there are some things not even really about his claims that are or were big red flags to me.

The first was that wager that Dark oz put up the money and Wizard verified. the conditions were Dark oz was betting Mdawg couldn't have a winning session. Any gambler, advantage player or not, knows you can play a simple martingale or other progression and the likelihood of a winning session goes up to 80% or more. This is not a long term winning strategy, but short term like a wager on one session, that would be the play. this is exactly what Mdawg was prepared to do. And of course, Wizard is held to a confidentiality agreement, so he can't say.

But what was really disturbing is Mdawg tried to use this for some credibility saying things like "wizard has verified that he wins". That is not what happened. Wizard verified that small, short session was a winning session, as per terms of the wager.

The attacking of every player that dared not believe his story was also a red flag to me. And finally, the PMing or DMing as some of you say, people behind the scenes, trying to manipulate them or get them to support him, is a huge red flag. That is just not what real players do.

[accountinquestion]

So let me get this right. You're saying that Mdawg's stories aren't all true?

[kewlJ]

So let me get this right. You're saying that Mdawg's stories aren't all true?

I know you give him a pass, because you never thought they were true, just like many give Singer a pass for that, and write it off a funny. But both these guys present this shit as true. Singer wrote books for God sakes. And Mdawg writes this shit on 5 different forums. You may not take it seriously, but they do take it seriously of people believing this shit. And as long as they do and keep repeating their BS, real players have a right to discuss it and challenge it.

[coach belly]

real players have a right to discuss it and challenge it.

Which participating members are not a "real player"?

Everybody has a right to discuss and challenge whatever they want.

They even have the right to make up stuff about themselves and others, and write about that.

It's bad form to do that...but it never stopped you from doing it.

[Treeshade]

He either misspoke or I have no idea what that means. He goes on to later say that people do, in fact, play the machines. You'd be surprised, but people occasionally misspeak in real time. We can't all achieve Coach Belly levels of perfection, but that doesn't mean that we should ever stop trying.

Actually, I think what he meant to convey is that they trick the marketing system into thinking they are a big player, even though they intend (after that day) to just run off the free play and bounce, which he discusses later in the video.

The marketing Algos are not shared with surveillance or casino personal. They would need to completely stop giving free bets plus update every single machine and system to eliminate every vulnerability. You would think a brand new casino would implement such a system, but the don’t. The podcast was lol bad IMO. A snooze fest of irrelevant information

I don’t think anyone would be surprised that they didn’t tell you anything you don’t know; they barely told me anything I don’t know and I know maybe 10% of what you do. It’s still going to be very interesting for people who don’t know anything about it and it’s not as though anything they said is incorrect.

Yeah they said it was not illegal multiple times. I like people thinking it’s illegal tho because it keeps people away. The pod has a very limited reach so I don’t think new people will be turned on. There was one thing I found interesting when they were discussing the walk rate. I have another name for it and I’m well aware of how to manipulate such things. This is partly why I’m able to operate in casinos were others get their cards killed including lake Charles. On my second listen I guess overall it was fine. Hopefully it’s the last podcast discussing the topic.

[AxelWolf]

LOL. Pathetic attempt there, maxpuke. Unlike you I've never worked for anyone in gambling. Only stupid people like you do that. So stepandfetchit it.

Danny did me one favor, if you want to call it that. He told me how strong Flush Attack was. Of course he told me that at Harrah's Laughlin. He wanted me out of there so he could have the Piggy Bankin's all to himself. The Flush Attacks were in 5 casinos on the River but none in Harrah's. So I did him a favor and moved to Flush Attack and stayed away from Harrah's. That is, until he got 86'd a couple of months later. Then I started hitting the joint again.

I was involved with the flush attacks for about 8 years. I started on the linked banks then moved to the unlinked machines. It gave me a good start in gambling. So thanks, Danny for the advice.

I don't know when they took the Flush Attack out of Harrah's, but they had them at one time near the entertainment stage bar.

Gold River, Flamingo, Pioneer, Riverside, Harras, and The Ramada all had them at some point. I don't recall the Bell or Edge Water ever having them. GN I don't believe so, but it's possible they had them for a short while at the beginning near the club booth and bathrooms where the Bingo poker was added.

Were you there when The Riverside also had House A Rock'in? Same concept, but the Full House paid 200 coins in bonus mode and took 4 max bet FH's to trigger. It was still around 133%, but you got more hands in. You don't have much of a strategy change advantage.

Max Attack was I believe 6/5 JOB that took 1 4oak to initiate and the Bonus round and it paid $625. They had $1 denominations at the Horseshoe but, I couldn't afford to play them as I was just getting started. I believe Ray F made a killing on those, but they didn't last long. I believe those were 111% during the bonus mode. I estimate during a busy time that would've been worth around $300 an hour. I can't remember how many machines they had, so it's really hard to say, and it would also depend on the competition. There weren't a ton of people who really even knew about it or were interested back then. Many of the video poker Advantage Players didn't mess with the Attacks that much.

The Flush Attacks were gone out of Harrah's Laughlin when I showed up in Oct 1996. I would occasionally play the House A Rockin' at the Riverside. Laughlin was all linked bank Flush Attacks until Pioneer unlinked theirs in 2000. Good money on the linked banks but you didn't run much of a wager so not much comp. Most of the unlinked machines were in northern Nevada.

I swept thru the unlinked banks almost everyday at northshore Lake Tahoe when I was there. There were 40 unlinked machines there. Played with a 4% to 5% edge depending on the payscale. It was worth about $300 a day.

At Carson Valley Inn in Minden I had both unlinked flush attacks and unlinked house a rockin' to sweep thru everyday.

Were you using the flush 50 strategy? I did some of that, but I was doing more progs and promotions by that time.

[smurgerburger]

Judging from the podcast Darrin Hoake is not familiar with legal actions outside of the ones he's been involved in in Louisiana. There have been cases that have been more successful for the prosecution than the LA one he mentions.

To my knowledge nobody has been tried and convicted for "vanilla" multicarding related offenses (so assuming they weren't hacking stolen cards or whatever), but people have pled to such charges (e.g. theft by misrepresentation, access device fraud) for suspended sentences.

If you read the laws, at least in the jurisdictions I've looked at, none of them really seem to apply on their face.

But what seems to happen is the casinos get the wrong idea about what exactly is happening, or they just lie to the police, or in one case an AP went directly to the FBI with misleading accusations.

Once law enforcement starts investigating success means criminal charges and failure means failure to bring charges, so they have an interest in inflating the charges as much as they can. Then the prosecutor eventually realizes it's all at best legally untested and offers an extremely lenient plea deal rather than risk losing at trial (or possibly just dropping the case if the deal is rejected).

[AxelWolf]

Judging from the podcast Darrin Hoake is not familiar with legal actions outside of the ones he's been involved in in Louisiana. There have been cases that have been more successful for the prosecution than the LA one he mentions.

To my knowledge nobody has been tried and convicted for "vanilla" multicarding related offenses (so assuming they weren't hacking stolen cards or whatever), but people have pled to such charges (e.g. theft by misrepresentation, access device fraud) for suspended sentences.

If you read the laws, at least in the jurisdictions I've looked at, none of them really seem to apply on their face.

But what seems to happen is the casinos get the wrong idea about what exactly is happening, or they just lie to the police, or in one case an AP went directly to the FBI with misleading accusations.

Once law enforcement starts investigating success means criminal charges and failure means failure to bring charges, so they have an interest in inflating the charges as much as they can. Then the prosecutor eventually realizes it's all at best legally untested and offers an extremely lenient plea deal rather than risk losing at trial (or possibly just dropping the case if the deal is rejected).

vanilla. Good term here.

There are situations where people get into problems taking it a step or two further.

[Treeshade]

Judging from the podcast Darrin Hoake is not familiar with legal actions outside of the ones he's been involved in in Louisiana. There have been cases that have been more successful for the prosecution than the LA one he mentions.

To my knowledge nobody has been tried and convicted for "vanilla" multicarding related offenses (so assuming they weren't hacking stolen cards or whatever), but people have pled to such charges (e.g. theft by misrepresentation, access device fraud) for suspended sentences.

If you read the laws, at least in the jurisdictions I've looked at, none of them really seem to apply on their face.

But what seems to happen is the casinos get the wrong idea about what exactly is happening, or they just lie to the police, or in one case an AP went directly to the FBI with misleading accusations.

Once law enforcement starts investigating success means criminal charges and failure means failure to bring charges, so they have an interest in inflating the charges as much as they can. Then the prosecutor eventually realizes it's all at best legally untested and offers an extremely lenient plea deal rather than risk losing at trial (or possibly just dropping the case if the deal is rejected).

Bob narsesian Calls it prosecutorial discretion. Depending on the jurisdiction they will overcharge you. Most of the time APs will just plea out because it’s not worth the time or money to proceed. In every case I’ve looked at including in PA where the APs took a plea they could have won outright if they stood their ground. No one I bankroll takes a plea. We go the distance because it’s simply not illegal based on the current laws. No fake ids are used no stolen cards nothing remotely illegal. So really IMO it makes no sense to take a plea.

[mickeycrimm]

I don't know when they took the Flush Attack out of Harrah's, but they had them at one time near the entertainment stage bar.

Gold River, Flamingo, Pioneer, Riverside, Harras, and The Ramada all had them at some point. I don't recall the Bell or Edge Water ever having them. GN I don't believe so, but it's possible they had them for a short while at the beginning near the club booth and bathrooms where the Bingo poker was added.

Were you there when The Riverside also had House A Rock'in? Same concept, but the Full House paid 200 coins in bonus mode and took 4 max bet FH's to trigger. It was still around 133%, but you got more hands in. You don't have much of a strategy change advantage.

Max Attack was I believe 6/5 JOB that took 1 4oak to initiate and the Bonus round and it paid $625. They had $1 denominations at the Horseshoe but, I couldn't afford to play them as I was just getting started. I believe Ray F made a killing on those, but they didn't last long. I believe those were 111% during the bonus mode. I estimate during a busy time that would've been worth around $300 an hour. I can't remember how many machines they had, so it's really hard to say, and it would also depend on the competition. There weren't a ton of people who really even knew about it or were interested back then. Many of the video poker Advantage Players didn't mess with the Attacks that much.

The Flush Attacks were gone out of Harrah's Laughlin when I showed up in Oct 1996. I would occasionally play the House A Rockin' at the Riverside. Laughlin was all linked bank Flush Attacks until Pioneer unlinked theirs in 2000. Good money on the linked banks but you didn't run much of a wager so not much comp. Most of the unlinked machines were in northern Nevada.

I swept thru the unlinked banks almost everyday at northshore Lake Tahoe when I was there. There were 40 unlinked machines there. Played with a 4% to 5% edge depending on the payscale. It was worth about $300 a day.

At Carson Valley Inn in Minden I had both unlinked flush attacks and unlinked house a rockin' to sweep thru everyday.

Were you using the flush 50 strategy? I did some of that, but I was doing more progs and promotions by that time.

Yeah, I used Flush 50. Doug Reul wrote an article about unlinked Flush Attacks in Video Poker Times. He's the one that came up with Flush 50 strategy.

[jdog]

all they do is mislead members with fantasy BS claims, then it is fair game to exposed them...

There is no difference because what you and others say are all just unproven claims... and quite possibly "fantasy BS". Just because much of what you claim might be a bit more plausible does not change this.

As M146 says, if you wish to be the sole judge of what is acceptable as far as posting, then you'll need to start your own forum.

[MDawg]

Besides what Dan Druff pointed out,

I think kewlJ doesn't understand why so many people here dislike him.

It's not just that he lies. We've had lots of liars on this forum.

It's the seriousness with which kewlJ tells these lies, and then lashes out at those who doubt them. There's a certain arrogance to those posts, in the tone, "Of course this is fucking true, and you're a complete idiot for even doubting this."

UnKewlJ has not only been caught in many lies to the point where it was blatantly obvious that he was altering his stories in desperation to try to keep up with the contradictions that many of us caught, but also even finally admitted to a few lies when he had no choice but to admit,

Then, when the forum userbase turns out to be smarter than he expected and disproves some of them, we get the mea culpa that he wasn't telling the truth all along. Fessing up only gets you credit if you do it before people take apart the lie and prove otherwise. You get even less credit if you were arrogant/combative/condescending during the questioning of the story's veracity.

and as well has no shame about going on and on about the same topics in thousand word SChiZoPHreNiC UNKewl PYsCHo babble posts until we just want to give him a sly bit of fist, to shut him up - for his own good.

There has to be a fair amount of domestic violence in his household (when he has a household - no wonder his own family kicked him out). Just imagine how annoyed anyone dealing with him would get over his compulsive lying and refusing to back down even in the wake of overwhelming proof against him.

We laugh at him, shake our heads at his stubbornness in refusing to admit when caught in most of his lies, but in person it would be hard to resist (except for the extreme distaste of having to touch the guy) grabbing his peanuty head (he's so wimpy that you'd feel bad about punching him) and shoving him to the floor.

Add to this his repeated vows to quit the forums (including one exit from the forums where he faked his own death), and you have a real mental case.

Like I said, it must be mental illness. You're a habitual liar incapable of facts. You just create whatever works in your mind at the moment. Really, the best thing for you to do is exit stage left. Your credibility is completely shot and unrecoverable....RIP

UNKewlJ is definitely in a unique class of his own, when it comes to online basket cases. An admitted serial liar.

The thing about KJ - if you actually read what he writes - is that he constantly echoes the words/phrases and themes of the immediately previous replies by others. As I noted, a while back, he's extremely suggestible. Not someone in control of even his own life. People don't always end up in places like Vegas by their own conscious volition. My guess would be some nut-job living from one day to the next, now on the internet. Certainly of negligible intelligence, etc.

Guess who said this UNKewlJ?

He's pretty much a pathological liar you can't believe anything he says. But also probably a sociopath and they have no guilt no shame no embarrassment. They simply make up lies to cover the other lies.

Could it be perhaps that well known AP you used to think is on your side?

But it was so well said I decided to just adopt it for myself.

[MDawg]

The bum has spent six solid months now lying nonstop. Six months that he copped to, fifteen years to which he hasn't (yet).

[MDawg]

Besides all that, there's nothing useful or entertaining about anything UNKewlJ has to say. In all his hundreds of thousands of words spent on discussing alleged casino play there are almost no descriptions of actual hands of blackjack played. He has actually described a few alleged machine hits with far more detail than any blackjack, which lends credence to what many APs have been saying about him for years now - that he's nothing more than a low end video poker player.

He has spent millions of words trying to explain away what others have done in casinos, but again - little or nothing describing what he has done other than in a very generic way.

No pictures.

No narrative other than discussions of theory he obviously pulled from books and online.

Not even an oily surfboard.

For someone who clearly cares so much to believed - the lack of any bit of back up for anything he has to say or has claimed, makes sense only if the obvious - which is that he has no proof to provide - is assumed. And when he backed down from the chance to pick up 300 grand, it became painfully obvious what a FraudJ he indeed is.

[Rob.Singer]

Besides all that, there's nothing useful or entertaining about anything UNKewlJ has to say. In all his hundreds of thousands of words spent on discussing alleged casino play there are almost no descriptions of actual hands of blackjack played. He has actually described a few alleged machine hits with far more detail than any blackjack, which lends credence to what many APs have been saying about him for years now - that he's nothing more than a low end video poker player.

He has spent millions of words trying to explain away what others have done in casinos, but again - little or nothing describing what he has done other than in a very generic way.

No pictures.

No narrative other than discussions of theory he obviously pulled from books and online.

Not even an oily surfboard.

For someone who clearly cares so much to believed - the lack of any bit of back up for anything he has to say or has claimed, makes sense only if the obvious - which is that he has no proof to provide - is assumed. And when he backed down from the chance to pick up 300 grand, it became painfully obvious what a FraudJ he indeed is.

You don't really have to reiterate that anymore. Everybody understands he's nothing more than a self-made up fraudulent internet forum character who is no different than the vast majority of people who live in LV: he plays nickel video poker and $5 bj....when he can. And he "thinks" he's an "advantage player" because he creates his own value out of the comps and freeplay he gets. Just like every other low-end loser in town.

[MDawg]

This irritant has the gall to tell people what they should post, and declare what is going on with them.

So and so should stick to posting this. So and so is a losing player.

When...he's done nothing but out himself as a



"convincingly."

Mission146 on the UNKEWL one: Ironically, MDawg is actually much more of a verified real person than you are based on what you have now said. He was technically more verified before that, but you had a very long history that gave you some credibility on the forums. Now, you've lied about everything. Convincingly. Why should I believe anything a person says who has supposedly lied about literally everything except for that because...reasons? MDawg is definitely a high-rolling player.

Everything and anything he has ever said will come into question and years of his forum adventures in BJ and life will be labeled as fiction.

But now we haven't any clue as to what was/is true when it comes to you

I don't believe any part of your backroom story and I'm skeptical about 75% of everything else.

[MDawg]

Basically, UNKewlJ is a guy who has relied on his lying wide loose mouth to (try to) get him out of most situations.

You're definitely someone who isn't adverse to lying on forums if it suits you to do so.

What he's never learned or experienced is the Goodfellas "Everyone takes a beating sometimes" lesson.



If he had been beat up more often instead of just ignored and thrown out of his home, maybe he'd have not developed into such an embarrassment of a human being.

[MisterV]

Basically, UNKewlJ is a guy who has relied on his lying wide loose mouth to (try to) get him out of most situations.

You're definitely someone who isn't adverse to lying on forums if it suits you to do so.

What he's never learned or experienced is the Goodfellas "Everyone takes a beating sometimes" lesson.



If he had been beat up more often instead of just ignored and thrown out of his home, maybe he'd have not developed into such an embarrassment of a human being.

Idiot!

You posted the exact same screed of nonsense in two different threads.

Why?

Just like to read what you write, do ya?

Kinda keeps the boogeyman at bay, eh?

[kewlJ]

When a person starts a thread entitled "the adventures of xxxxx" on a gambling forum what does that tell you? Is he going to share winning and losing, just the way gambling works and the comps associated with that (even at a higher level)? Doubtful. It is going to be something extreme...in this case years and years of winning millions of dollars while being welcomed and comped extraordinary amounts. It is a tale as silly as all the Hollywood movie shit he quotes and links to. I think most people kind of were expecting that before word 1 was even written.

BUT, as time went on he proved it. As Axelwolf recently alluded to, one of the first big red flags was this idea that he had previous casino barings reversed by promising not to play at an advantage. Yeah that is how it works!

And over time, there were so many more. 50 straight winning blackjack hands (rivaling Alan's 18 in a row Y.O. claim). Up to and including the $100-$5000 spread playing double deck blackjack at a strip casino for 10 consecutive hours. There are 100 more that defy how things work. Because, he is just telling a story, maybe writing a story, for whatever reason.

I haven't even included the mansion because that is not exactly a gambling claim, just proof of a lie, like everything he posts attacking not just me, but other real players are.

The guy is writting a story, a fiction fantasy type story, for what ever reason. I don't care except for the parts that defy how the math and things really work.

Just like I really don't care if Rob worked in the aerospace industry, maybe has a decent retirement income (+ 3.2% bump for next year...extra gambling money). I only care that Rob came up with one after another stupid claims that defy the math and how things work, until he finally stole a real claim from the news.