Here is the thing about Shackleford: He just doesn't care anymore. As anyone who checks in and reads WoV can see, he isn't around much, off doing other things at this point of his life, which is fine. Whatever he does at WoV, he is just going through the motions because he is under contract or agreement to do. You would think he would care more about a site that is his legacy and still bares his name, but he doesn't.

He didn't even have any interest in that first challenge until he was going to be paid. And it wasn't a challenge, more like a free roll for Mdawg. Not a free roll about money, although it was that too, but a free roll, to manipulate the event into credibility. All he had to do was have a winning session. Anyone that gambles, from AP to ploppy knows a progressive system will provide a 95% likelihood of that. THAT is all that Shackleford witnessed. And despite an agreement not to say what he witnessed (NDA), Shackleford has made an effort, minimal but an effort, to tell people that it wasn't winning play, that is anything that would result in long-term winning.

Mdawg almost has free reign to post whatever nonsense he desires in his attempt to manipulate people and tell his tall tale. And that is because Shackleford told me he doesn't even read Mdawg's thread. That right there tells you what he really thinks. If you contact Mike pointing out some specific outrageous claim, like I did earlier this year with the $100-$5000 bets spread playing double deck on the strip for 10 hours, Mike might take a look and comment as he did with that claim. But otherwise, he isn't reading and doesn't care. After that incident, Mike did tell me that "he really should do more of that", but that is akin to some overweight person saying yeah I really should lose weight, when they have no intention of doing so.

Mdawg is just taking advantage of the fact that Wizard has all but checked out and doesn't care. 6 or 7 years ago, however long it has been since before Wizard sold his sites, Mike would have never allowed these multitude of Mdawg bullshit to stand. He would have challenged and called out all this Mdawg shit. But sadly, that Mike Shackleford is gone, replaced by a man who cares only about solar eclipses, burning man, unicycles, and maybe wordle and whatever thing he is off to see and expoerience this week.