I don't go back to the original Singer days like some of you veteran
posters do, but this is the most egomaniacal post I have seen on
this forum in my two-plus years of membership.
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Bob Dancer wrote on VP FREE:
I was going to let this go (as I don't really want to get into
another extended thread about this), but when Jean spoke up, I felt
I had to too.
My reports were first published in 1995, when I was barely
into dollar stakes and still played mostly quarters. My writing was
mainly inspired by the lack of good published information. I have a
background in teaching various things, so teaching others about
video poker came naturally. The only "reasonable" video poker
writing I could find then was Bradley Davis, Frome, Paymar, and
Wong. While Davis and Wong were accurate enough (but only about
specific games I wasn't interested in), the other two weren't ---
by a long shot.Writing about video poker hasn't been a particularly
lucrative
career for me --- less than $300,000 total over 11 years. But what
it HAS done for me is force me to learn the games better than
anyone else does. If you have to write 7 new columns a month (go
ahead and check out the 150 articles on my website and look for
duplicates if you like --- then check out a like number of articles
by most other gambling writers and you'll see a LOT of
duplication), you need to do a LOT of research
and practice. Studying the game (including penalty cards!) is the
raw material that has allowed me success as a player, teacher,
writer, and consultant.And I still play a lot of video poker. People who think
opportunites have dried up aren't looking very hard. There's plenty
of money to be made playing video poker if you're good enough. I
fully expect to make another million dollars gambling over the next
6-8 years.