Many people have tried their whole lives to make something of gambling. Even while scamming others into believing in their books, seminars, systems, gambling sites, and online casino and other sponsors. As many people directly in the business, as casino owners, floor persons, dealers, have openly confirmed as much.

Look at where Shackleford ended up a few short years after commencing his own such forum. Straight down the shitter. Is this the recognition of a life well lived and received? Where a man should find himself at the end of a career? No one else wants to interview him, likely because, relatively speaking, he hasn't accomplished anything; and few in the real gambling industry and political spectrum have even heard of him, or pay any attention. He interviews himself, and contemplates a whole series of further interviews. Only about fifteen other persons on his forum acknowledged his latest attempt. Another of an endless series of attempts at "winning something". Oh, years ago, he won a blackjack tournament of a few "champion counters". Invitation only, no entry fee, no prize; and only after a decade or two(?) of wasting his LUCK with it.

His hangers-on, at Mike's House (Jonestown) - desperate and depleted - he is their last chance at something, err, anything. Analogous to rs_ and jbjb clinging also to Alan here. Validation and vindication enough for the few sane among us?



The only question now, why the h-e-double-l didn't he ask Alan for some advice about all this years ago. Specifically, why did he show Alan (, like so many other real experts there once upon a time,) the bum's rush, when Alan could have at least conducted the interviews with professionalism and precision. Fucking boggles the mind? People who are full of themselves. Even his old friends are "just not saying anything" anymore.

http://www.trafficestimate.com/wizardofvegas.com

http://www.trafficestimate.com/wizardofodds.com

I get a kick out of MrV, another disciple in sheep's clothing over there, who often excitedly explains how only the Odds site is important to its new owners. No, the Vegas correlates quite well. No social and mental breakdowns at the Odds site because nobody says anything there, or speaks of it elsewhere. (MrV owns/owned casino stock, and minor stock in stuff like Ahigh's hundred-dollar pinball machines.)

Would Shackleford have left his name on the old sites, to be dragged through gambling mud, had he the option to not do so? Of course not. Was it Shackleford who withdrew from his initial online casino sponsor, Bodog? Of course not. Not a guy who would, and did, recourse to begging for pocket change to keep the sites online, and himself solvent. So Bodog left because there was little or declining advertising value there anymore. The value was no longer worth the trade-off and stigma of the Wizard's obvious across-the-board incompetence and childishness. So a middleman who connects many less-particular online casinos with generic gamblers (who "no speakie the language") had no qualms about letting Mr. Shackleford down easy the rest of way. Did Shackleford sign confidentially away again, his patented lame excuse for never really talking about the details?

OMG! All this serious joking about buying souls. Can a person who sold out his soul from the beginning own souls? He'd only, eventually, sell also those.