I've already privately apologized to Axel. We've both wished each a happy new year and are moving on. Now I am publicly apologizing to him.
What led me to fly off the handle was in Axel's post there was no quote of Alan. The only quotes were of me. I thought it was an out of the blue ad hominem attack on me. It didn't help that I had just gotten out of bed and was waiting on the coffee to brew. I'm not really with it until I suck down that first cup of coffee. After that, I really didn't think about it until Dan pointed out that the post was probably directed at Alan. I went back over the post and seen the error of my ways. I said some things I shouldn't have. I have no clue if Axel runs multiple cards. I just threw it in there for effect. Just like I did the skippers.
What I DO know about Axel is back in the late nineties when I was just starting he was world class. I was a mini pro at that point and hung out at the Riverside/Laughlin quite a bit. Some of the local hustlers told me about Axel and his crew. They told me that when that $5 8/5 Jacks progressive in the high roller room hit $42,000 Axel and crew would come in, lock up both machines, and play until they hit the royal. That's exactly what happened. I had watched the number on that bank climb all the way to 42K and sure enough Axel and his crew showed up.
I knew at that point that the upper tier pros really didn't care to fraternize with lowly mini pros like me. So I didn't try to strike up a conversation or anything. I was just observing them and they had no clue I was doing so. I came back down the next morning. The big royal was gone and so was Axel and his crew.
At what I call the Pioneer Hustlers Convention of 2002 I discovered a play. They had put in a double time system where hands between certain parameters would pay double. The double time would come several times per hour and last one minute. I was playing $1 Jacks betting one coin between double times then five coins in double time. You had to bet at least one coin every ten seconds between double times to keep the machine qualified for the double times. Eventually the slot techs started tweaking the system down until the double times didn't come so fast making the play worth not that much money.
Meanwhile, I had observed a Las Vegas couple, J & L (Axel will recognize who they are just by the initials) on some quarter Game Kings in another part of the casino. I knew they didn't play thin edges. Sometimes they would be playing video poker and sometimes they would be playing 4-card keno. I had no clue what they were doing but it was their play so I left them alone. On the day my play dried up I noticed they were no longer in the casino. So I moseyed over to that bank to see if I could figure out what they were doing.
Got to take care of something.....I'll finish next post.
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