Content Analysis of this Las Vegas Forum

[Rob.Singer]

If you could go into (relatively) any Las Vegas casino, make some $1,000+ per hour, do so with ease, no worry about the casino catching you or throwing you out....would you take week-long breaks in between sessions? If I could make $1k+/hour, unmolested, I'd make that my full time job. No need to bitch about the smoke in the casino or the degenerates, and I certainly wouldn't write a book (or 2) about this strategy. You'd have to be stupid NOT to be playing as much as possible.

It's laughable that someone can claim such an awesome winning system, but rarely ever played....and now he's "retired"!

You're confusing a meaningful life with one that theoretically does not matter.

Obviously I know and knew from the start of my professional playing career that I could begin another session right away if I chose to, and I would have made a lot more money if I did so. Your limited exposure to life and reasoning beyond a casino is what's keeping you coming up with silly responses.

My strategy was played for a LIVING and not for some irrational reason beyond that. I quit my job which had me away from home and overseas over 75% of the time. Doing the Az. to Nv. trip once a week saw me home far more often than I'd ever been, and that was the most important aspect of what I did. I had already saved for retirement and I had saved the gambling bankroll required. So doing the trip and playing the session for an avg. win of over $3k/session (ALL sessions) for 10 years was a satisfying goal for me. And who in their right mind would rather go to casinos at least 300 miles away to sit at the poker machines instead of relaxing comfortably in their retirement? Wise up.

It's not all about "gee, if the strategy is that great, why wouldn't he play it 10 times more than once a week"? That of course is the simpleton view, lacking in the realities of life which include other than being inside casinos. You always think in such narrow, almost illogical terms RS__ when it comes to what constitutes success.

[Alan Mendelson]

Rob brings up a good point about balancing success and income from work with lifestyle.

I have known several people in the TV news business who gave up big, lucrative, high-paying TV jobs in major markets so they could have a better family life in a small market.

I can also understand how a professional gambler might be happy reaching a certain income level and then shunning additional play because he had enough to fund the life he wanted and didn't want to risk the money or the time required that may or may not have meant higher income.

It's the old "bird in the hand" thing.

[Rob.Singer]

You said it correctly. The problem is some people can't come close to comprehending the balance aspect. Someone who makes comments like RS__ has expects gambling to be the end-all as a measure of having a successful life. That will change with maturity, and if he ever gets out of the "casinos rule" rut in which he exists.

[Alan Mendelson]

You said it correctly. The problem is some people can't come close to comprehending the balance aspect. Someone who makes comments like RS__ has expects gambling to be the end-all as a measure of having a successful life. That will change with maturity, and if he ever gets out of the "casinos rule" rut in which he exists.

This is why I asked if there was an independent, third-party survey on what "advantage players" actually earn?

While it certainly sounds nice and is very inviting to earn a living playing games, just how much of a living do you earn?

[Rob.Singer]

I believe what arci showcased is largely representative of what you'd find from the majority of AP's. IE, when they win they don't win much, when they lose they won't prove how much they actually lost, and they will ALWAYS & FOREVER say that they have great winning that they have not documented.

Redietz does pretty much the same thing, except we really don't know if he even gambles.

[Alan Mendelson]

Redietz does pretty much the same thing, except we really don't know if he even gambles.

I wouldn't be too fast to criticize Redietz as he might be doing just what you do, Rob. He might be limiting his play to only the winning situations -- just as you do, Rob, with your "hit and run" and "quit when ahead" strategies. Redietz may have identified where he can play to win -- he makes those plays -- and there is no need for him to play more than that. Hence, in addition to his sports betting he plays only 25-cent video poker. And realistically, if his winning comes from sports betting why should he play more than 25-cent video poker? And if his sports betting wins are limited to only a few sports why should he make other bets?

There is nothing wrong with "specializing" in doing what you have had success in.

Personally, now that I have found that I can have success at the Small, Tall, All bets at craps, I won't play at a table that doesn't have the STA bets available. I think I have enough of an edge to avoid rolling the number 7 enough that I can win with the STA bets, so why bother trying to play a game that requires hitting repeaters. Frankly, I don't do well having to hit repeaters at craps.

[slingshot]

I think what gets lost is the idea that EVERY win is not a BIG win. And the longer you play, the tireder you get, the more careless you get, and the more you lose track of where you are in a strategy. I don't consider that "recreational".

[arcimede$]

Singer has "balanced" his life so well he continues to live in a trailer park. Before that was a small apartment from which he was evicted. All that on a claimed $200,000 a year. LOL.

[Alan Mendelson]

Singer has "balanced" his life so well he continues to live in a trailer park. Before that was a small apartment from which he was evicted. All that on a claimed $200,000 a year. LOL.

I know people who live in mansions who are flat broke and people who live in modest homes who are millionaires. I wouldn't judge anyone by the size of their home.

[Rob.Singer]

Has anyone wondered what would have happened to Alan & Linda if they had accepted our Thanksgiving invite and we had sent them to a house address in Az. because arci claims we're in some trailer park somewhere? And goodness, where would they have stayed? And those 16 or 35 loan sharks could certainly find me---just like arci!

I'm declaring arci is LSH. The radiated P-A-I-N level sure appears to be near the same.....

[Alan Mendelson]

Singer has "balanced" his life so well he continues to live in a trailer park. Before that was a small apartment from which he was evicted. All that on a claimed $200,000 a year. LOL.

What's wrong with $200,000 a year? Even in Los Angeles that's a heck of a good income and in Arizona you must live very well on that considering the cost of real estate.

Most TV news reporters in LA -- and these are union jobs -- are under $100,000 a year. Union cameramen make about $65,000 a year.

[arcimede$]

I know people who live in mansions who are flat broke and people who live in modest homes who are millionaires. I wouldn't judge anyone by the size of their home.

I don't judge them. However, Singer has repeatedly claimed he lived in a big house. Obviously, that is what he lusts for.

[redietz]

I believe what arci showcased is largely representative of what you'd find from the majority of AP's. IE, when they win they don't win much, when they lose they won't prove how much they actually lost, and they will ALWAYS & FOREVER say that they have great winning that they have not documented.

Redietz does pretty much the same thing, except we really don't know if he even gambles.

Damn, Rob, I missed you at the WestGate yesterday and today. I had to cash some SB tickets.

I guess now I have no evidence that I gamble. Damn, whatever will I do if Rob wants to bet me?

P.S. Rob, there's another opening for you to make a horse's ass of yourself. You haven't passed on one yet.

[coach belly]

I guess now I have no evidence that I gamble.

Ditz...if you wanted to prove that you bet on the Super Bowl, then why didn't you post pictures of the tickets before the game, or before you cashed the tickets?

[redietz]

The obvious answer, coach, is that I guess I didn't want to prove that. Duh.

[coach belly]

The obvious answer, coach, is that I guess I didn't want to prove that. Duh.

OK...keep yourself guessing, whatever gets you through the night.

Maybe someday you'll figure yourself out.

[redietz]

You seem baffled that some people don't want to impress you. That's an odd trait. Kind of narcissistic.

[coach belly]

You seem baffled that some people don't want to impress you. That's an odd trait. Kind of narcissistic.

I'm not baffled...I don't need to be impressed, I don't know anybody here.

But I hope you feel better by trying to impress me...

I think that I need to have some respect for what I accomplished these past few months

The need for respect from a bunch of anonymous strangers...what kind of trait is that?

[Alan Mendelson]

Since everyone appears to be in agreement that there is no need to impress anonymous posters on an Internet forum, would everyone please stop trying to do that? Thanks.

[Alan Mendelson]

Rob started posting photos of his home in this thread. I told him that if had any trouble to send them to me if has trouble posting. He didn't have any trouble, so I moved them to a new thread: "Photos of Rob Singer's Home."

I asked Rob if it was okay to move them to a new thread.