Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post

I waited ten years to bring this up, and other than for legal safety the reason is valid and it's not due to bragging rights. I am a known person in the vp world who was not able to be entirely honest in multiple forms of media after my first four years of playing professionally using my strategy. I was constantly criticized for writing in Gaming Today for years about hitting hi limit jackpots week after week. I was called a liar and every name in the envy book. People wondered where I got the $640,000 cash I put up as escrow to take on Fezzik and the LVA crowd.

I've chosen to attach an explanation to all that ten years + later. I've been labeled a con man, a losing player, and whatever else AP's could think of as their way of pretending I couldn't be for real. Well, imagine how satisfying it all was back then as I was the one playing the with best advantage ever in video poker.

Oh, that 5th card flip over stuff? Simple diversion and entertainment as I piled up the profits.
This is some hilarious stuff, Rob. So you were intentionally making yourself look like a crackpot with the 5th card flip. You must have been laughing your ass off as all us AP's spent so much time working on debunking the claim. So who did you say was pulling whose chain? LOL! And I'll bet Fezzik's eyes were popping out when you posted the 640K. Back when that was going on I was thinking no way you could throw down 640K like that. Now I believe it.
And you were a part of that.

Those are the type of things I had to do to protect myself and the play, that I wish I didn't have to do.

On the $640k Fezzik bet, I made up the story that I got this from my 401k, when in fact no one in their right mind would happily pay a 10% early withdrawal penalty for a bet like this. I also made the bet very high expecting the other side to just walk away, and it worked. If I were to have to prove my winnings, the real numbers would have been so high that nobody would know what to say.

Not my proudest moments in my vp career.
One last thing. If you were to have delivered your tax returns to Alan they would have shown 500K a year instead of 100K? It must have been a monumental effort on your part not to put them up. You could have shoved it way down our throats on that one.