Jean Scott wrote:
ADVANCE NOTICE: I am not attacking the messenger, but discussing the message.
Parts of the above article were unnecessary from my literary point of view as a writer and undeserved criticism from my personal point of view of decent human behavior. In my opinion the personal attack did not contribute to the subject being discussed.
Furthermore, I disagree with the premise that because someone refines a strategy or changes something after further research that this makes that person unreliable. Are we going to throw out all of Lenny Frome's work because some of the earlier parts were not as refined as later ones.
All of us writers have changed our minds down through the years about certain aspects of VP and corrected mistakes in our writings. It would be pig-headed for me to say that I haven't learned a lot during the 21 years I have been gambling. I do hope that my writings are more "accurate" now than they used to be.
There are many different levels of strategies and many different ways of presenting them. I'm sure Skip Hughes would agree that he has refined his strategy cards down through the years. We are always looking for new ways to make our information more helpful. I am too busy trying to make my writings easy to read and helpful to the biggest number of players without spending energy knocking down the work of other respected writers.
Well said, Jean, and thank you.
Knowing that the writer will never stop attempting to discredit my work, I had chosen to ignore the column, taking to heart the words of the great Greek philosopher/mathematician Pythagoras; "Rest easy with doing well, and let others talk of you as they please."
Of the thousands of players who have purchased my products, I have never had a complaint about the quality or accuracy of my strategies, with the exception of two who pointed out inadvertent typo errors that were corrected in later copies and one who felt that my book contained too much minutiae.
Dan
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Dan Paymar
Author of best selling book, "Video Poker - Optimum Play"
Editor/Publisher of VP newsletter "Video Poker Times"
Developer of VP analysis/trainer software "Optimum Video Poker"
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"Chance favors the prepared mind." -- Louis Pasteur