This is pure platinum.
Mickey has a burning need to believe the pumped up side of whatever he hears about or makes up about AP's, while rejecting anything said against them as personally hurtful and impossible.
He doesn't want the truth about a guy like Frank Kneeland to enter into his make-believe world of "winning ap's" or else he'll have nightmares in his one-track boring nothing of a life. And he wants and needs it to be true that a habitual gambler like Tom Robertson made millions keeping quiet about gambling. We'll I've heard differently. I heard Robertson stiffs his team members when things don't go so well--as in when the "team" can't hit the jackpot or some loner does right in front of their eyes. Belt-tightening. Does that sound like the antics of a "millionaire"? And I get it--to mickey, anyone with a $50,000 car has to be a millionaire.
Sorry but the final numbers are in: Frank couldn't play with his own money, Tom turns into a tightwad when the going gets tough, Axel does all the forum "team play" chatter because that's what fascinates him from his anonymous armchair setting, and mickey's two-bit no matter which way you bake your bread.
Oh....and kewl's a fool. We all know that.