I think we get it kew--you don't want it to be true. No one's gonna call in a hitman because of how you feel.

Your biggest problem has to do with your continuing to falsely claim that my "phony" Play Strategy, which was very successful for four years despite how you just can't cope with that, is supposedly a reason why my finding this play in early 2004 is also supposedly fabricated. You have your right to any opinion. I just thought you might want to take a step back and see how that makes you look.

You also saw mickey explain why he leans the way he does on this, because I know every tiny detail about this play, and the fact that I retired from professional vp playing (as soon as these guys got caught) in 2009. That fact has been recorded since 2009.

Here's a few other facts that support this:
--The Alan/arci IRS transcript challenge. I had been saying for years that I had been winning about $90k to $100k/year since 2000 by playing my strategy. When the challenge came out for something like 2006-2009 tax years, I came up with every excuse in the book to not have to show mine. Why--because I was an all-time loser or that I lied on my returns? Of course not. I simply had way too much winnings each year to be able to explain, all smack dab in the middle of the statute of limitations.

--I've bought property and other big ticket items over these years and put most of them in my children's names. Am I that great a father? Well, yes. But I was also very aware that what I had been doing in video poker placed me right in the middle of the unknown. I don't care that the feds dropped the Kane case. You just never, ever know for sure what could happen from any direction.

--Name someone else that has acted as wildly insulting as me over the last 15 years on forums, and has come up with more outrageous anomalies (non-random machines/5th card flipover/AP being a "state of mind" etc.)! It was all meant as a means of diversion for ME, because nobody but me knows what it was like having gone thru the play for those years, then having to wait TEN years in order to let it all out. Yes kew it was misleading and I'm the one that had to deal with that the most. I also took no pleasure in all the things I said about arci. It was simply a means to a safe end. Part of the "protect myself and my family first" act. Just like everything I've done.

Now it's finally over. If any of you knew me, you'd know I'm just a regular guy who came across the find of a vp lifetime, and because I took it seriously, it lasted as long as it could. I am very very happy it wasn't me who ended the play.

Bob21: as I've said, I waited a full 10 years because I'm a very cautious person. I didn't know what the civil ramifications might be either. And as a formal federal employee, I know how untrustworthy things can be with them.