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Gee Dicky, my e-mail address on yahoo seems to be having some
problems. But I don't want that to keep you from reading this week's
Gaming Today column. It's just for a Singer groupie like you! Also,
I'm getting ready to move into a new home shortly, so I'm gonna let
you have the last word or I know you just won't be able to sleep for
weeks. You can even say how sneaky I'm being by using aces_hii again.
You're such a ferrocious brute, you are.... But I'll eventually be
back to put you in your place once again. What I've learned from this
month's exchange is that you aren't very good at making excuses when
wiggling out of wagers, you still know little about the game I'm the
master at, you made FAR too many mistakes that make you look like a
complete stupido....enough that I almost feel guilty slapping you
when you are down! Oh, and now we all know that you play FAR more
than even you believe you do, further adding to your pathological
gambling problem. "I only play 3 hours a day" is the cry. HAHAHA!!!!
But one thing I really don't understand is your blatant disrespect
for your wife. You blame her for your problem, you portray her as an
addict, you basically call her a Dancer groupie, and what better way
for the two of you to spend your declining years than inside
beautiful, smokey CASINOS all day long? Gee, I wish we could all be
like you......... The perfect life. Go to bed, dream about video
poker, get up, become anxious abvout TODAY'S trip to the casino, come
home and analyze the heck out of the peanuts that you won or lost---
and then you suddenly become bored with normal life away from the
casinos, so you start writing your words of nonsense on whatever vp
forum you can find, of course always thinking you're the star poster
(like your "there is no long-term" beaute on WinPoker). You're a
piece of work, dicky. Now go ahead--"set the record straight" before
you go BONKERS!....and read REAL words of wisdom.

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VIDEO POKER lends itself to deviating, every now and then, from so-
called `perfect' or `expert' strategy
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October 04, 2005 - by Rob Singer

Recently there have been several Point-Counterpoint discussions on
various casino games, and of course the columns on video poker always
seem to generate the most interest and e-mails.

I get many messages from readers that go both ways – even when I
don't write either of the columns. So this week I've decided to look
at the other side of a Expert Strategy column that appeared in last
week's publication.

One of the first points made was that expert strategy was never
advertised as the strategy that would guarantee one would actually
win at video poker. While this is true of any strategy, most if not
all of these expert approaches are sold to anxious and wide-eyed
gamblers looking to beat the casinos. The wrong message is sent, and
people lose in more ways than one. A true winning play strategy would
only be disseminated to an interested public for FREE, because no
winning player would have the need to take other people's money while
being able to claim gambling success.

Does learning expert video poker strategy really allow the gambler
the best chance of winning by stretching his gambling dollar, as the
article suggests?

Not at all. In fact, once one picks up on how the authors claim to
win by using this strategy, the player will find that many, many
hours of flawless, sustained play are required just to approach the
limits of the math models that tout such success.

In gambling – and especially video poker – that can easily lead to an
addiction, although those who have taken this route are quick to snap
back by saying "I'm a recreational player who ONLY plays 15-25 hours
a week!" See my point?

Who can argue that one should seek out and play the best pay tables?
But to say professional players must only play games with positive
expectations is shortsighted at best. Again, that's putting classroom
theory before common sense and real life scenarios.

I play mostly negative games because that's what's available, yet I
win on a consistent basis – much more so than what others say is
reasonable for their expert strategy – and I make my living from
doing this.

All the others either work multiple jobs, have fee-based sites, ask
for your credit card before supplying any advice, and sell a myriad
of products.

It's also interesting when someone says trying to win on negative
expectation games is like "trying to defy gravity … it doesn't
happen."

This must mean that I am not to be believed. Yet, I recently offered
in the form of a very large bet right here in GamingToday to produce
absolute, indisputable and financial institution/casino/IRS audit
documented proof of an 8-yr. period of consistent winning (approx.
87%) to the tune of over $640,000 profit.

Is it by "sheer accident" that some casinos put in over-100% video
poker games? I think not, in fact, one need only to review the
history of the Suncoast, The Reserve, Station Casinos, Sam's Town,
etc. and most recently Wynn Las Vegas to see that it is no accident.
And whenever the machines have their pay tables lowered it is simply
a business decision to pull games that bring in fewer profit dollars
than others. These games continue to flourish, however, and they
generate the most play of any video poker machines on the casino
floors.

Another mistake by the so-called math experts is in proclaiming any
deviations from perfect or expert strategy as sacrificing a fraction
of the payback. Once again, while that may be true on a piece of
paper with probability theories and math models, when a real player
goes into a real casino anything can happen at any time. Deviating
from optimal strategy is the only way to make that happen. Ignore
that and you might as well just save your time, hand your money over
to the casino, and leave.

Whenever I read where someone says they're making X-amount of dollars
per hour playing a positive machine whether they win or lose, it
automatically sends up the BS red flag. I don't know about you, but
if I play for three hours and lose $300, I've just lost a hundred
dollars an hour! No amount of nonsensical, self-confidence-building
phantom bucks earnings will ever change that. It's statements like
these that cheapen the already suspect messages put out by those who
claim to know why expert strategy is the only way to approach video
poker.

At the end of the day are you going to believe the words of someone
who writes about math theory as the means to win, or someone who
actually plays the game with a much more sensible play strategy AND
WINS by doing so?

You make the call. I already have long ago, but I chose the hard way
to get there. You don't have to take that route.

Rob, I see you're using your email id that's not really you. Phantom
monkey boy at his best.

How can I say anything about an aritcle that is so full of obvious
lies and misinformation that it should offend even the stupidest
publisher. To have this garbage published makes GT a promoter of the
Singer scam. I sure hope GT gets exactly what's coming to them.

As for Robbie running away once again. I guess my lastest challenge
got to him. He knew he was caught red handed with his lie about the
mathematicians and he won't admit it in public. For a mere 10 Gs at
that. So, this makes it two for Dick, zeeeerrrrroooo for Rob. Let me
know when you want some more butt kicking.

Gee Dicky, my e-mail address on yahoo seems to be having some
problems. But I don't want that to keep you from reading this

week's

Gaming Today column. It's just for a Singer groupie like you! Also,
I'm getting ready to move into a new home shortly, so I'm gonna let
you have the last word or I know you just won't be able to sleep

for

weeks. You can even say how sneaky I'm being by using aces_hii

again.

You're such a ferrocious brute, you are.... But I'll eventually be
back to put you in your place once again. What I've learned from

this

month's exchange is that you aren't very good at making excuses

when

wiggling out of wagers, you still know little about the game I'm

the

master at, you made FAR too many mistakes that make you look like a
complete stupido....enough that I almost feel guilty slapping you
when you are down! Oh, and now we all know that you play FAR more
than even you believe you do, further adding to your pathological
gambling problem. "I only play 3 hours a day" is the cry.

HAHAHA!!!!

But one thing I really don't understand is your blatant disrespect
for your wife. You blame her for your problem, you portray her as

an

addict, you basically call her a Dancer groupie, and what better

way

for the two of you to spend your declining years than inside
beautiful, smokey CASINOS all day long? Gee, I wish we could all be
like you......... The perfect life. Go to bed, dream about video
poker, get up, become anxious abvout TODAY'S trip to the casino,

come

home and analyze the heck out of the peanuts that you won or lost---
and then you suddenly become bored with normal life away from the
casinos, so you start writing your words of nonsense on whatever vp
forum you can find, of course always thinking you're the star

poster

(like your "there is no long-term" beaute on WinPoker). You're a
piece of work, dicky. Now go ahead--"set the record straight"

before

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--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "aces_hii" <aces_hii@y...> wrote:

you go BONKERS!....and read REAL words of wisdom.

I've only got through about 7pm today before I have to shut this
computer down too, so let's hope Dicky isn't sitting at a vp machine
already for his usual 5-6 hours a day fix.

Now it's worth it. The bet sounds like a winner to me! Let me know
what constitues "proof that they exist" so you can't weasel out when
I win, and I'll meet you with the cash in Wynn at the bank of full-
pay machines just outside of Red 8 (that's a gourmet restaurant and I
know, you're not used to such nice digs--but you'll be able to find
it. Just keep an eye out for the classy looking people that you don't
see in any of the dumps you're in all day) on Fri. 4am sharp Oct.
21st. My editor from GT has agreed just now on the phone to be there
for escrow collection, and I suggest you have someone yourself since
you don't believe or trust anyone else in the world of gaming but
Dicky. Normally, this proof would take all of 3 minutes, but if you
dance around the parmeters of this bet like you've shown a history of
doing, that's why we'll probably require escrow holders.

I like it when you love to hate to love my column. Isn't it
refreshing to read the truth though. Further agitating you, I like it
when my truths get out to over 90,000 people a week, yet your sorry-
ass posts here make it to 10 or 15 computers.

Not that I'll ever expect you to go back and take my proof-of-winning
challenge, but you made yourself look like chicken little on that
one. When anyone won't accept facts and actuals from every
institution, agency and bank presented -- yet makes believe I've been
involved in criminal activities just so I can make 250!! trips to Nv.
and set up a false scenario, and then because I haven't been 'caught'
say I have to account for every minute of my life for 8 years to
prove I've NOT been involved in illegal cash deals -- that cries
cowardice....and did i mention it also says you believe me? And an
arbitrator deals with facts only, not fiction. (I see you've never
been involved in arbitration either--big surprise. What a great,
experienced-filled life). You could make me pay for an arbitrator and
whine about the irrefutable proof all you want, but he won't create
any of your theories in the process (and oh, did I mention how boring
and hopeless it must be living in a life full of theories instead of
reality--as we're witnessing right here?). For the arbitrator to
ASSUME I've done things I've never been suspected of, accused of, or
indited for because YOU just can't afford lose a big bet, he'd lose
his license fast. Think past all that too. If you refused to pay up
you'd end up in court. How do you think a judge would rule it?
Translation--You Lose To Singer Yet AGAIN!!

Rob, I see you're using your email id that's not really you.

Phantom

monkey boy at his best.

How can I say anything about an aritcle that is so full of obvious
lies and misinformation that it should offend even the stupidest
publisher. To have this garbage published makes GT a promoter of

the

Singer scam. I sure hope GT gets exactly what's coming to them.

As for Robbie running away once again. I guess my lastest challenge
got to him. He knew he was caught red handed with his lie about the
mathematicians and he won't admit it in public. For a mere 10 Gs at
that. So, this makes it two for Dick, zeeeerrrrroooo for Rob. Let

me

know when you want some more butt kicking.

> Gee Dicky, my e-mail address on yahoo seems to be having some
> problems. But I don't want that to keep you from reading this
week's
> Gaming Today column. It's just for a Singer groupie like you!

Also,

> I'm getting ready to move into a new home shortly, so I'm gonna

let

> you have the last word or I know you just won't be able to sleep
for
> weeks. You can even say how sneaky I'm being by using aces_hii
again.
> You're such a ferrocious brute, you are.... But I'll eventually

be

> back to put you in your place once again. What I've learned from
this
> month's exchange is that you aren't very good at making excuses
when
> wiggling out of wagers, you still know little about the game I'm
the
> master at, you made FAR too many mistakes that make you look like

a

> complete stupido....enough that I almost feel guilty slapping you
> when you are down! Oh, and now we all know that you play FAR more
> than even you believe you do, further adding to your pathological
> gambling problem. "I only play 3 hours a day" is the cry.
HAHAHA!!!!
> But one thing I really don't understand is your blatant

disrespect

> for your wife. You blame her for your problem, you portray her as
an
> addict, you basically call her a Dancer groupie, and what better
way
> for the two of you to spend your declining years than inside
> beautiful, smokey CASINOS all day long? Gee, I wish we could all

be

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--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rgmustain" <rgmustain@a...> wrote:

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "aces_hii" <aces_hii@y...> wrote:
> like you......... The perfect life. Go to bed, dream about video
> poker, get up, become anxious abvout TODAY'S trip to the casino,
come
> home and analyze the heck out of the peanuts that you won or lost-

--

> and then you suddenly become bored with normal life away from the
> casinos, so you start writing your words of nonsense on whatever

vp

> forum you can find, of course always thinking you're the star
poster
> (like your "there is no long-term" beaute on WinPoker). You're a
> piece of work, dicky. Now go ahead--"set the record straight"
before
> you go BONKERS!....and read REAL words of wisdom.

I've only got through about 7pm today before I have to shut this
computer down too, so let's hope Dicky isn't sitting at a vp

machine

already for his usual 5-6 hours a day fix.

Now it's worth it. The bet sounds like a winner to me! Let me know
what constitues "proof that they exist" so you can't weasel out

Individual names and addresses, email addresses and copies of the
proofs.

on Fri. 4am sharp Oct.
21st.

Sorry, It will have to be later. I don't get up until 6AM. So, let's
make it 8:00AM.

My editor from GT has agreed just now on the phone to be there
for escrow collection, and I suggest you have someone yourself

since

you don't believe or trust anyone else in the world of gaming but
Dicky. Normally, this proof would take all of 3 minutes, but if you
dance around the parmeters of this bet like you've shown a history

of

doing, that's why we'll probably require escrow holders.

It will take a lot longer then 3 minutes. I will need to take the
proofs and determine whether they are valid. It shouldn't be too
difficult so it won't take much time. However, I may need to contact
your mathematicians for clarification of their proofs. A few days at
the most.

I like it when you love to hate to love my column. Isn't it
refreshing to read the truth though.

It would be if you ever wrote any.

Further agitating you, I like it
when my truths get out to over 90,000 people a week, yet your sorry-
ass posts here make it to 10 or 15 computers.

Sure it does. Is that before or after they wrap the fish?

Not that I'll ever expect you to go back and take my proof-of-

winning

challenge, but you made yourself look like chicken little on that
one.

I already have accepted it under MY terms. Absolute proof. Either you
accept it or not.

When anyone won't accept facts and actuals from every
institution, agency and bank presented -- yet makes believe I've

been

involved in criminal activities just so I can make 250!! trips to

Nv.

and set up a false scenario, and then because I haven't

been 'caught'

say I have to account for every minute of my life for 8 years to
prove I've NOT been involved in illegal cash deals -- that cries
cowardice....and did i mention it also says you believe me?

No, it means I already know your moral state of decay (you still owe
Congo 2 million dollars) and take that into account in the bet.
Either you accept my terms or you don't. It's as simple as that.

And an
arbitrator deals with facts only, not fiction. (I see you've never
been involved in arbitration either--big surprise. What a great,
experienced-filled life).

Well, do you accept my terms or are you going to scrawl more
worthless rhetoric while limping away again.

You could make me pay for an arbitrator and
whine about the irrefutable proof all you want, but he won't create
any of your theories in the process (and oh, did I mention how

boring

and hopeless it must be living in a life full of theories instead

of

reality--as we're witnessing right here?). For the arbitrator to
ASSUME I've done things I've never been suspected of, accused of,

or

indited for because YOU just can't afford lose a big bet, he'd lose
his license fast.

Yada, yada, yada. Could you whimper somewhere else, or agree with my
terms.

Think past all that too. If you refused to pay up
you'd end up in court. How do you think a judge would rule it?
Translation--You Lose To Singer Yet AGAIN!!

Sorry, bozo, you're the one making the claims. If you can't agree to
the terms of my bet then the only thing we can assume is your claims
may be fraudulent. You see, bozo, that's the problem with making
statements like "I can prove ..." when you have no clue what that
entails.

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--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "aces_hii" <aces_hii@y...> wrote:

Individual names and addresses, email addresses and copies of the
proofs.

What is 'copies of the proofs'?

> on Fri. 4am sharp Oct. 21st.

Sorry, It will have to be later. I don't get up until 6AM. So,

let's make it 8:00AM.

You can get up early for a $10,000 bet that you purport not to be
able to lose. I'm out jogging at 8, and my wife is with me so I to
take her to breakfast right after I get back in.

It will take a lot longer then 3 minutes. I will need to take the
proofs and determine whether they are valid.

In your mind, what determines if these 'proofs' are valid? You said
you want proof that they exist. Or do you want proof that they
existed? That's what I have as I've said so often. Where they are
today is as much a guess for me as it is for you. But I'll try to
make contact with each of them over the next few days.

It shouldn't be too

difficult so it won't take much time. However, I may need to
contact your mathematicians for clarification of their proofs. A few
days at the most.

Again, define 'proofs'.

> I like it when you love to hate to love my column. Isn't it
> refreshing to read the truth though.

It would be if you ever wrote any.

You're just like the rest of them--you can't wait each week to read
my column. It makes you feel important. "Hey, I know him!"

> Further agitating you, I like it
> when my truths get out to over 90,000 people a week, yet your

sorry-ass posts here make it to 10 or 15 computers.

Sure it does. Is that before or after they wrap the fish?

Before. Only certain papers can be used to do that type of wrap. The
rest are thrown directly into the garbage.

> Not that I'll ever expect you to go back and take my proof-of-
winning challenge, but you made yourself look like chicken little
on that one.

I already have accepted it under MY terms. Absolute proof. Either

you accept it or not.

there's no such thing as anyone being able to account for every
minute for 8 years. What about BEFORE that period--Why aren't you
stipulating that maybe 30 years ago I made a big heist and kept the
money over the years to perpetuate a video poker scenario of winning,
and you required proof that I didn't do that?? See how foolish you
are--or should I say afraid.....

> When anyone won't accept facts and actuals from every
> institution, agency and bank presented -- yet makes believe I've
been
> involved in criminal activities just so I can make 250!! trips to
Nv.
> and set up a false scenario, and then because I haven't
been 'caught'
> say I have to account for every minute of my life for 8 years to
> prove I've NOT been involved in illegal cash deals -- that cries
> cowardice....and did i mention it also says you believe me?

No, it means I already know your moral state of decay (you still
owe Congo 2 million dollars) and take that into account in the bet.
Either you accept my terms or you don't. It's as simple as that.

You have no terms. Just nonsense. The bet is to be taken exactly as I
specified in Gaming Today and here, and as submitted to LV Channel 3--
where proof of things that actually DO exist and DID happen are what
any person would ever require. You might as well ask me to also prove
I didn't make $4000 giving head to natives on trips thru Africa 12
years ago, or to prove any other negative that involves making money
anytime. What a clown.

> And an
> arbitrator deals with facts only, not fiction. (I see you've

never

> been involved in arbitration either--big surprise. What a great,
> experienced-filled life).

Well, do you accept my terms or are you going to scrawl more
worthless rhetoric while limping away again.

That says to me you're a scardy cat and don't want to be reasonable.
What a surprise. The more negatives you post the dumber you look--and
you know it. No saving face with me!

> Think past all that too. If you refused to pay up
> you'd end up in court. How do you think a judge would rule it?
> Translation--You Lose To Singer Yet AGAIN!!

Sorry, bozo, you're the one making the claims. If you can't agree

to the terms of my bet then the only thing we can assume is your
claims may be fraudulent. You see, bozo, that's the problem with
making statements like "I can prove ..." when you have no clue what
that entails.

Well dicky, I can prove what I won, how, how much and when--which is
what the bet's all about. In order to weasel out of it, you want me
to prove other things that don't exist, which in effect says you are
wussing away from the bet. I know you won't take it because you
neither have the stones nor the cash to go up against me. Now I'm
just waiting for your escape clause on the puny $10,000 bet.
Hmmmm.....How long will it take.........

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--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rgmustain" <rgmustain@a...> wrote:

Since you were worried in your last note ... My wife and I were
shopping, then went to a movie (Serenity) and finally, we went out
for a comped dinner.

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rgmustain" <rgmustain@a...>

wrote:

> Individual names and addresses, email addresses and copies of the
> proofs.

What is 'copies of the proofs'?

The proof that your system can turn a negative expectation game into
a positive expectation with a finite number of progressions and as
many card related special plays as you see fit to include. Without
the proofs you could pass along 3 more crooks as your mathematicians.
I need to see the proofs to validate the mathematicians really did
something for you as you claim.

> > on Fri. 4am sharp Oct. 21st.

> Sorry, It will have to be later. I don't get up until 6AM. So,
let's make it 8:00AM.

You can get up early for a $10,000 bet that you purport not to be
able to lose. I'm out jogging at 8, and my wife is with me so I to
take her to breakfast right after I get back in.

Nope. I know your going to weasel out just like you did with Congo,
so make it 10:00AM.

> It will take a lot longer then 3 minutes. I will need to take the
> proofs and determine whether they are valid.

In your mind, what determines if these 'proofs' are valid?

Simple ... they are mathematically valid. No special rules beyond
basic math principles.

You said
you want proof that they exist. Or do you want proof that they
existed?

I need to see the actual proofs. Otherwise, as far as anyone can
tell, they never did exist.

That's what I have as I've said so often. Where they are
today is as much a guess for me as it is for you. But I'll try to
make contact with each of them over the next few days.

Whatever.

It shouldn't be too
> difficult so it won't take much time. However, I may need to
>contact your mathematicians for clarification of their proofs. A

few

>days at the most.

Again, define 'proofs'.

I did.

> > I like it when you love to hate to love my column. Isn't it
> > refreshing to read the truth though.

> It would be if you ever wrote any.

You're just like the rest of them--you can't wait each week to read
my column. It makes you feel important. "Hey, I know him!"

I've never even looked at a copy of GT. Given what I know now, I
certainly won't do it in the future.

> > Not that I'll ever expect you to go back and take my proof-of-
> winning challenge, but you made yourself look like chicken little
>on that one.

> I already have accepted it under MY terms. Absolute proof. Either
you accept it or not.

there's no such thing as anyone being able to account for every
minute for 8 years. What about BEFORE that period--Why aren't you
stipulating that maybe 30 years ago I made a big heist and kept the
money over the years to perpetuate a video poker scenario of

winning,

and you required proof that I didn't do that?? See how foolish you
are--or should I say afraid.....

Now, you're beginning to understand just what a proof is. Hopefully,
in the future you will use this added knowledge and not make
statements that start with "I can prove ...".

Since you've clearly backed down from this bet, let me add one other
comment. There is clearly a small possibility that you have won the
money you claim. As with any lucky set of events it does not validate
any system or approach that may be used in the process. The recent
double megabucks winner surely didn't have an edge and no one in
their right mind would propose putting large sums of money into
megabucks. I hope you can see the similarity between what you claim
and this magabucks winner. You both won, you both played with a
negative expectation and it's unlikely that 1 in a 1000 will be able
to repeat it.

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--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "aces_hii" <aces_hii@y...> wrote:

Hey guys--Thanks to the Cox's so far forgetting to shut off the
service at the house we're leaving, I'm here to help comfort you as
you fight your losing battles against the cruel addictions you have
with gambling.

Since you were worried in your last note ... My wife and I were
shopping, then went to a movie (Serenity) and finally, we went out
for a comped dinner.

Well golly gee, that certainly sounds like an all-day affair if there
ever was one! And yup, Serenity sure sounds like an appropriate movie
for someone like you Dick. Fantasy, make-believe, & impossibilities---
right up your alley! I'd say you did the day in the right order
though. You shopped BEFORE getting that comped meal and wasting all
that time and money on the machines in that place YET AGAIN. Good
thinking. I wish I had some of that.

The proof that your system can turn a negative expectation game

into

a positive expectation with a finite number of progressions and as
many card related special plays as you see fit to include. Without
the proofs you could pass along 3 more crooks as your

mathematicians.

I need to see the proofs to validate the mathematicians really did
something for you as you claim.

Um, read your offer to bet. Are you a true analyst or not?? You asked
for proof that the mathematicians EXIST, did you not? I told you I'll
give you proof they exist today if they're still alive and/or are
reachable because you don't want to believe they existed 9 years ago.
If you want proof that my play strategy was developed in a manner to
consistently win on ANY of the series of vp games that I say they now
do, you should have said it that way in the first place and not made
an after-the-fact weasel stipulation so you could escape another bet.
I have all the paperwork on my contribution to that event as well as
their written analyses/advice, and it has nothing to do with whether
or not they now exist. When you get over discovering you're not as
smart as you like to think you are, get back with me on it. And be
clear this time.

> You can get up early for a $10,000 bet that you purport not to be
> able to lose. I'm out jogging at 8, and my wife is with me so I
to take her to breakfast right after I get back in.

Nope. I know your going to weasel out just like you did with Congo,
so make it 10:00AM.

Wrong. Since I'm the important one here and you're a nobody (do you
get that yet?) I say when and where. P.S.--I like how you're now
calling the other fool the name 'Congo'. You're getting that one.

Simple ... they are mathematically valid. No special rules beyond
basic math principles.

I can get your juices flowing on that right now. The strategy
recognizes and the calculations prove out, MATHEMATICALLY, how ONE
SESSION will have a very favorable chance of attaining the win goal
of $2500 minimum (which you and your cohorts like to call "the small
wins"). You know the drill--progression in denomination, game
volatility, etc. It shows the numbers on hitting a devastating loss
for that one session, as well as the odds of hitting a huge winner
(which is what the detractors always conveniently like to ignore - as
if a giant win would never occur). The numbers proved that the big
win is much more probable again, in one session. Unlike how you and
others would like to now plug this into some sort of long-term
analysis--which my play will NEVER attain because of the number of
sessions I'll play for the amount of time I do this--and how you
would instantly and illogically say that playing negative games will
only yield a loser as well as the obvious and simple opposite, the
true analysis remains a single session analysis because that's how a
short term strategy is played. Where you feel the urge (and you'll
erroneously say it's because that's how math operates, just to feel
good for no known reason, without looking at the entire scope of
what's on the table) to do some model into infinity or to call upon
the law of large numbers as a defense, neither is of any value here.
A session is a session. It is not a part of anything else. To say
what you do about them all being combined---about how a player on one
side of the bell curve will eventually even out if playing all games
at 100%---means that current results are being influenced by past
results, and that makes no sense. The entire analysis is based on a
single session probability model, which is how every single player
ever plays.

I've never even looked at a copy of GT. Given what I know now, I
certainly won't do it in the future.

White lies are still lies.
  

Now, you're beginning to understand just what a proof is.

Hopefully,

in the future you will use this added knowledge and not make
statements that start with "I can prove ...".

I believe you've lost the real meaning of 'proof' in this process.
I'm proving something exists, not proving that something doesn't.
Throwing that curve in that I still hit for a homer didn't make you
look like you think you look on these forums.

Since you've clearly backed down from this bet, let me add one

other

comment. There is clearly a small possibility that you have won the
money you claim. As with any lucky set of events it does not

validate

any system or approach that may be used in the process. The recent
double megabucks winner surely didn't have an edge and no one in
their right mind would propose putting large sums of money into
megabucks. I hope you can see the similarity between what you claim
and this magabucks winner. You both won, you both played with a
negative expectation and it's unlikely that 1 in a 1000 will be

able to repeat it.

You're effort at face-saving is admirable, but you're still confused.
Are you saying that I have a 1-in-1000 chance of winning ONE SESSION,
or a 1-in-1000 chance of winning 87% of 250? And are you saying I
have the same chance of hitting megabucks? Well then I'm the dumbest
person alive! I should have been playing only IT!!

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--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "aces_hii" <aces_hii@y...> wrote:

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wrote:

> Since you were worried in your last note ... My wife and I were
> shopping, then went to a movie (Serenity) and finally, we went

out

> for a comped dinner.

Well golly gee, that certainly sounds like an all-day affair if

there

ever was one! And yup, Serenity sure sounds like an appropriate

movie

···

for someone like you Dick. Fantasy, make-believe, & impossibilities-

--

Isn't that pretty much the definition of MOST movies?

right up your alley! I'd say you did the day in the right order
though. You shopped BEFORE getting that comped meal and wasting all
that time and money on the machines in that place YET AGAIN. Good
thinking. I wish I had some of that.

Where did I say I did any gambling? Nowhere. Are you ALWAYS wrong?

> The proof that your system can turn a negative expectation game
into
> a positive expectation with a finite number of progressions and

as

> many card related special plays as you see fit to include.

Without

> the proofs you could pass along 3 more crooks as your
mathematicians.
> I need to see the proofs to validate the mathematicians really

did

> something for you as you claim.

Um, read your offer to bet. Are you a true analyst or not?? You

asked

for proof that the mathematicians EXIST, did you not? I told you

I'll

give you proof they exist today if they're still alive and/or are
reachable because you don't want to believe they existed 9 years

ago.

There's no way to PROVE they are mathematicians without seeing their
proofs.

If you want proof that my play strategy was developed in a manner

to

consistently win on ANY of the series of vp games that I say they

now

do, you should have said it that way in the first place and not

made

an after-the-fact weasel stipulation so you could escape another

bet.

I have all the paperwork on my contribution to that event as well

as

their written analyses/advice, and it has nothing to do with

whether

or not they now exist. When you get over discovering you're not as
smart as you like to think you are, get back with me on it. And be
clear this time.

You could write any baloney, which you do quite often. The only way
to see if these so-called experts exist is to see their proofs. Of
course, this is exactly what I predicted at the end of my last note.
Don't you just hate it when I'm right all the time.

> > You can get up early for a $10,000 bet that you purport not to

be

> > able to lose. I'm out jogging at 8, and my wife is with me so I
>to take her to breakfast right after I get back in.

> Nope. I know your going to weasel out just like you did with

Congo,

> so make it 10:00AM.

Wrong. Since I'm the important one here and you're a nobody (do you
get that yet?) I say when and where. P.S.--I like how you're now
calling the other fool the name 'Congo'. You're getting that one.

It doesn't matter now, does it? You've already backed down, again.

> Simple ... they are mathematically valid. No special rules beyond
> basic math principles.

I can get your juices flowing on that right now. The strategy
recognizes and the calculations prove out, MATHEMATICALLY, how ONE
SESSION will have a very favorable chance of attaining the win goal
of $2500 minimum (which you and your cohorts like to call "the

small

wins").

I've always said a progressive system favors more session wins and a
few much larger losses. That's the nature of ALL progressive systems.
This is easily "calculated" and simple to understand. It's the hook
in your scam where you conviently forget to mention the IMPACT of the
large losses.

Now, if only you promoted using your system on positive machines ONLY
then we could discuss the other impacts of using a progressive
system. Of course, it's virtually impossible to find a 5 level
progressive set of games that are all positive, isn't it?

You know the drill--progression in denomination, game
volatility, etc. It shows the numbers on hitting a devastating loss
for that one session, as well as the odds of hitting a huge winner
(which is what the detractors always conveniently like to ignore -

as

if a giant win would never occur).

And, it doesn't show how it can change a negative expectation into a
positive one, does it? The "giant" wins are simply a part of the
overall NEGATIVE expectation. All it means is that the rest of the
game pays back even less which improves the chances of having a large
loss. A five level progression on an even money bet will win 15 out
of 16 times. That's almost 94% for the math challenged like Robbie
boy.

The numbers proved that the big
win is much more probable again, in one session.

It cannot show this. This is a lie. This is the heart of your scam.
There is no system that can improve the odds of hitting a big hand.
The odds are the same on every single hand that you play. This has
been proved many times over and none of your lies can change it.

Unlike how you and
others would like to now plug this into some sort of long-term
analysis--which my play will NEVER attain because of the number of
sessions I'll play for the amount of time I do this--and how you
would instantly and illogically say that playing negative games

will

only yield a loser as well as the obvious and simple opposite, the
true analysis remains a single session analysis because that's how

a

short term strategy is played.

It has nothing to do with short term or long term. It has everything
to do with analyzing a SINGLE hand and then extrapolating the results
to any number of hands you play. It does not care if the hands are
played in a single day or a 100 days (or a 100 single days). The math
is the same. You can't get away with the "long term" argument any
more, monkey boy. The long term is not required to show your system
can NEVER change a negative expectation game into a positive one.

Where you feel the urge (and you'll
erroneously say it's because that's how math operates, just to feel
good for no known reason, without looking at the entire scope of
what's on the table) to do some model into infinity or to call upon
the law of large numbers as a defense, neither is of any value

here.

A session is a session.

And, as I just pointed out, a single hand is all this is required. I
hope you realize how this latest baloney of yours has made it so
obvious that your system is a scam.

It is not a part of anything else. To say
what you do about them all being combined---about how a player on

one

side of the bell curve will eventually even out if playing all

games

at 100%---means that current results are being influenced by past
results, and that makes no sense.

Did anyone hear me say that? Nope, future results are never
influenced by past results. The hands are all independent. That's
EXACTLY why I can say your system is a scam. What independent means
is that the overall expectation can be found by simply adding the
expectations of the individual hands and dividing by the total number
of hands. So simple. Short term ... long term ... doesn't matter.

The entire analysis is based on a
single session probability model, which is how every single player
ever plays.

Nope. My "entire analysis" is based on analyzing a single hand and
then having the ability to ADD.

> I've never even looked at a copy of GT. Given what I know now, I
> certainly won't do it in the future.

White lies are still lies.

You should know.

> Now, you're beginning to understand just what a proof is.
Hopefully,
> in the future you will use this added knowledge and not make
> statements that start with "I can prove ...".

I believe you've lost the real meaning of 'proof' in this process.
I'm proving something exists, not proving that something doesn't.

Oh, but that is the nature of mathematical proof. Finding a single
example of where an assertion fails is all it takes to be 100% sure
the assertion is false.

Throwing that curve in that I still hit for a homer didn't make you
look like you think you look on these forums.

LMAO.

> Since you've clearly backed down from this bet, let me add one
other
> comment. There is clearly a small possibility that you have won

the

> money you claim. As with any lucky set of events it does not
validate
> any system or approach that may be used in the process. The

recent

> double megabucks winner surely didn't have an edge and no one in
> their right mind would propose putting large sums of money into
> megabucks. I hope you can see the similarity between what you

claim

> and this magabucks winner. You both won, you both played with a
> negative expectation and it's unlikely that 1 in a 1000 will be
able to repeat it.

You're effort at face-saving is admirable, but you're still

confused.

Are you saying that I have a 1-in-1000 chance of winning ONE

SESSION,

No, I suspect your 87% claim is a little high but I have not examined
the games you play in enough detail to figure out the exact number.
It is pretty simple math although a fairly involved effort since it
involves the exact variance and payback of the games. I'm more than
happy allowing for your 87% claim of session wins. It's the fact the
system still losses long term that makes it a rare event for anyone
to come out ahead playing regularly for 7-8 years.

Q1. Who is Rob Singer
A1. Rob Singer is the pen name of an Internet troll who claims he has won
$640,000 playing video poker using his own system. He writes an unpaid
column for Gaming Today, a weekly newspaper given away free in casinos. He
has a book and posts frequently on the FREEvpFREE Yahoo Group.

Q2. Has he really won $640,000?
A2. Maybe. But he has been caught in so many other lies it seems more likely
that he is lying about that too.

Q3. What other lies has he been caught in?
A3. Among others: he has claimed not to post under other aliases but has
been caught doing so by two very well respected group administrators. He has
claimed that most video-poker gurus have failed to make money when the
reverse is true. He has claimed that playing positive-expectation games
results in a loss without extraordinary luck when the reverse is true. He
has claimed that his 1700+ "special" plays that deviate from optimum play
add to his positive expectation when that is mathematically impossible. He
has claimed that his system is not a Martingale-style progression when it
is. And, of course, he continues to claim that his system works when it is
mathematically impossible for it to do so.

Q4. Why is it mathematically impossible for his system to work?
A4. His system is based on playing games with a negative expectation and
moving up in denomination when losing a certain amount at a lower
denomination. While this increases the chances of winning his $2500 goal
during any individual session, he risks $57,200 each time he attempts to win
$2500. Like betting the Red or Black on Roulette and increasing the bet
after a loss (the classic Martingale system), the system fails when you
reach the maximum denomination and can no longer increase your bet. At that
time, the fact that your bet has negative expectation (along with all your
previous bets at smaller denominations) means you will likely lose more than
you will win, and lose it in a devastating bust. Mathematically, it is
impossible to devise ANY system that yields a positive expectation from
playing a negative base game, so his claim that you can't evaluate his
system unless you know his 1700 secret plays is nonsense.

Q5. He says traditional video poker strategy is for the long term, which
none of us will ever reach in our lifetimes, and his system is for the short
term and therefore can win. He says in the short term it doesn't matter if
you play a 99% game or a 101% game. Is this the truth?
A5. No. If you're playing 10/7 Double Bonus and you play one hand and hit a
Flush, you will be five coins richer than if you were playing 9/6 Double
Bonus and hit the Flush. There is no such thing as short term. All the bets
you make over the course of your lifetime add up to an expectation. What his
system does is ensure that you either win small or lose big in any given
session.

Q6. But he says he has mathematical proof that his system has a very high
likelihood of winning any one session and that he will never play enough
sessions to reach the long term, so he is all but guaranteed a win. Does he
have something here?
A6. No. Playing a negative game, it is proven mathematically that the best
possible progression system give a player LESS THAN a B1/B2 chance of
increasing his bankroll from B1 to B2. Since Singer's system starts with a
bankroll of 57,200 and attempts to increase it to at least 59,700, his
chance of doing that is less than 57,200/59,700 = 95.8%. Now understand that
this is the mathematical maximum possible for any system and his chances are
actually less because the game is negative and he has a chance to overshoot
his goal. So the "long term" for his system is at most 24 sessions, not many
lifetimes as he claims. And when he starts with only a 17,200 bankroll, his
chance of increasing it to 19,700 is AT MOST 87.3%. The "long term" for that
play is only eight sessions! This is why it's very difficult to believe that
he is ahead after more than 200 sessions.

Q7. He says the only EV that matters is your results and that by making
plays such as holding a pat Flush versus four to a Royal if he would reach
his win goal, he can improve his EV to 135% even though holding the Flush
costs him "$7.75 in expectation." Is this right?
A7. On $100 8/5 Bonus Poker, holding a Flush versus four to a Royal costs at
least $6606.38 in expectation. "EV" means "expected value" and refers only
to the future, so saying the only EV that matters is in the past is
nonsensical.

Q8. He says three mathematicians and two publishers have verified his
strategy. How can that be?
A8. It can't. No mathematician would verify his strategy because very simple
mathematics proves it can't work. He cannot provide valid email addresses
for them and no one has verified they exist. Of the two publishers, one is
dead and the other would not confirm or deny his claim when contacted by
email. When someone called his bluff and accepted a $10,000 bet to verify
the existence of these mathematicians, Singer backed out of the bet, saying
he would only meet at 4 a.m. and would not allow the bettor to verify the
proofs.

Q9. He keeps offering to bet $640,000 that he can prove he won that amount
through playing his system. Why would he do that if it wasn't true?
A9. He will never pay off that bet. In the past he has offered first $1
million and then $2 million dollar proposition bets, both of which he
indisputably lost. Singer welshed on the bets and claims he won despite a
record of the entire exchange in the Yahoo Groups archives:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2165
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2175
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2177
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2180
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2183
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2215
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2217

Since it is impossible for him to prove to a skeptic's satisfaction that he
actually won the money playing his system, he will weasel out of the bet
long before he has to deposit $640,000 in escrow.

Q10. Why does he constantly insult people rather than defend his strategy
politely and rationally?
A10. Defending his system is a losing proposition, so there's really no way
he can do that. He seems to enjoy insulting people. To be fair, it's the
only thing he's ever demonstrated he's good at.

> Well golly gee, that certainly sounds like an all-day affair if
there ever was one! And yup, Serenity sure sounds like an

appropriate movie for someone like you Dick. Fantasy, make-believe, &
impossibilities-

Isn't that pretty much the definition of MOST movies?

The movie I recently went to, Flight Plan, was capable of actually
happening. Are you thinking the scenario in Serenity is in the same
ballpark--at least on earth?

> right up your alley! I'd say you did the day in the right order
> though. You shopped BEFORE getting that comped meal and wasting

all

> that time and money on the machines in that place YET AGAIN. Good
> thinking. I wish I had some of that.

Where did I say I did any gambling? Nowhere. Are you ALWAYS wrong?

That's just it. Even when you don't say it, you do. Someone who plays
as often and as long as you cannot simply walk in, eat dinner, then
walk out WITHOUT getting your fix at the machines. Ask Elliott.

> Um, read your offer to bet. Are you a true analyst or not?? You
asked
> for proof that the mathematicians EXIST, did you not? I told you
I'll
> give you proof they exist today if they're still alive and/or are
> reachable because you don't want to believe they existed 9 years
ago.

There's no way to PROVE they are mathematicians without seeing

their proofs.

So you want proof not only that they exist (ed), but that they are
also mathematicians. Clarity is the only way.

> If you want proof that my play strategy was developed in a manner
to
> consistently win on ANY of the series of vp games that I say they
now
> do, you should have said it that way in the first place and not
made
> an after-the-fact weasel stipulation so you could escape another
bet.
> I have all the paperwork on my contribution to that event as well
as
> their written analyses/advice, and it has nothing to do with
whether
> or not they now exist. When you get over discovering you're not

as

> smart as you like to think you are, get back with me on it. And

be

> clear this time.

You could write any baloney, which you do quite often. The only way
to see if these so-called experts exist is to see their proofs. Of
course, this is exactly what I predicted at the end of my last

note. Don't you just hate it when I'm right all the time.

As stated above, what you need to do is learn how to say what you
mean. Of course, you're not being an articulate writer has something
to do with that--and you might be able to pass off your nebulous
nonsense armed with your escape loopholes, to others--but with me
you're shananagans are caught with ease. Say what you mean, and mean
what you say.

> Wrong. Since I'm the important one here and you're a nobody (do

you get that yet?) I say when and where. P.S.--I like how you're now

calling the other fool the name 'Congo'. You're getting that one.

It doesn't matter now, does it? You've already backed down, again.

The point you missed is that you got hit in the sweet spot and are
slow to react. The bet's on if you can state what you want without
all the baloney attached.

> I can get your juices flowing on that right now. The strategy
> recognizes and the calculations prove out, MATHEMATICALLY, how

ONE

> SESSION will have a very favorable chance of attaining the win

goal

> of $2500 minimum (which you and your cohorts like to call "the
small
> wins").

I've always said a progressive system favors more session wins and

a

few much larger losses. That's the nature of ALL progressive

systems. This is easily "calculated" and simple to understand. It's
the hook in your scam where you conviently forget to mention the
IMPACT of the large losses.

First, it'd be a 'hook in the scam' if I were taking people's money
from selling them strategy, or selling them that doesn't work and/or
hasn't been proven to work in casinos. You know why you're wrong
there. And you're still stupified by "the large losses". It's a
mystery why you don't recognize the impact of the more frequent large
winners. Is it that hard to write?

Now, if only you promoted using your system on positive machines

ONLY

then we could discuss the other impacts of using a progressive
system. Of course, it's virtually impossible to find a 5 level
progressive set of games that are all positive, isn't it?

Yes, which is why I went into the strategy's development knowing I'd
have to work with MOSTLY machines at just under 100%. If either the
numbers didn't work out up front OR my 12 trials at lower
denominations didn't prove to me it worked (12-0), I would have
instantly scrapped plans to use the strategy to play for profit
professionally.

And, it doesn't show how it can change a negative expectation into

a

positive one, does it? The "giant" wins are simply a part of the
overall NEGATIVE expectation. All it means is that the rest of the
game pays back even less which improves the chances of having a

large

loss. A five level progression on an even money bet will win 15 out
of 16 times. That's almost 94% for the math challenged like Robbie
boy.

No, you're doing what you do best--assuming the giant wins are
meaningless. You're stuck, so you resort back to the escape clause
you always do--negative means loss and positive means win.

> The numbers proved that the big
> win is much more probable again, in one session.

It cannot show this. This is a lie. This is the heart of your scam.
There is no system that can improve the odds of hitting a big hand.
The odds are the same on every single hand that you play. This has
been proved many times over and none of your lies can change it.

Read it again, this time understanding it. The big win is more
probable than the big loss. And you're obviously wrong on the next
point too. I can easily improve my odds of hitting a big win by only
going for royals on every hand. And when you boil that down to
reality, the special plays take that to the next level that you think
does not exist. What you've think you've proven is what long-term
strategy theory has to say about my strategy, and it has nothing to
do with that at all. Drop the infinity hat and look at it as a single
session, and you'll eliminate the knots in your stomach.

> Unlike how you and
> others would like to now plug this into some sort of long-term
> analysis--which my play will NEVER attain because of the number

of sessions I'll play for the amount of time I do this--and how you

> would instantly and illogically say that playing negative games
will only yield a loser as well as the obvious and simple opposite,

the true analysis remains a single session analysis because that's
how a short term strategy is played.

It has nothing to do with short term or long term. It has

everything

to do with analyzing a SINGLE hand and then extrapolating the

results

to any number of hands you play. It does not care if the hands are
played in a single day or a 100 days (or a 100 single days). The

math

is the same. You can't get away with the "long term" argument any
more, monkey boy. The long term is not required to show your system
can NEVER change a negative expectation game into a positive one.

You're still lost & confused and will forever remain that way,
because if you EVER made the effort to understand this instead of
blocking your mind and repeating your long-term theory craziness,
then it would turn your statistic-laden, optimal-play neurosis video
poker play upside down and inside out--causing a complete and
permanent tilt. Most people in your hopeless mode eventually come to
me privately, and they're glad they did.

> Where you feel the urge (and you'll
> erroneously say it's because that's how math operates, just to

feel

> good for no known reason, without looking at the entire scope of
> what's on the table) to do some model into infinity or to call

upon

> the law of large numbers as a defense, neither is of any value
here.
> A session is a session.

And, as I just pointed out, a single hand is all this is required.

I hope you realize how this latest baloney of yours has made it so

obvious that your system is a scam.

All you pointed out was how little you know--which makes me look all
the more reasonable to the knowledgeable player.

> It is not a part of anything else. To say
> what you do about them all being combined---about how a player on
one
> side of the bell curve will eventually even out if playing all
games
> at 100%---means that current results are being influenced by past
> results, and that makes no sense.

Did anyone hear me say that? Nope, future results are never
influenced by past results. The hands are all independent. That's
EXACTLY why I can say your system is a scam. What independent means
is that the overall expectation can be found by simply adding the
expectations of the individual hands and dividing by the total

number

of hands. So simple. Short term ... long term ... doesn't matter.

Now you're trying the doubletalk route. Are you trying to say the
bell curve example above WON'T mathematically even out? And are you
disagreeing when Bob Dancer, et al, writes that "If I lose today I'm
not worried, because with my strategy I KNOW I'll win eventually win
and I'll be fine"? That easily means because there's a known losing
streak, there's also a known winning streak to come. That's a
dependence on influencing hands dicky, whether alone, in pairs, or
bunches. I'm always the one who's strategy always is played one hand
at a time, and that nothing is influenced by anything else. A winning
hand is the result of good luck, and a losing hand is bad luck.
Simple and easy. The way short term strategy needs to be understood
in order to be consistently successful.

> The entire analysis is based on a
> single session probability model, which is how every single

player ever plays.

Nope. My "entire analysis" is based on analyzing a single hand and
then having the ability to ADD.

Then that's why you aren't able to cope with or understand the
analysis of my play strategy. And never will. Illogic at an early age
has a chance of correcting itself. But for you, not now.
  

> White lies are still lies.

You should know.

Pee Wee's back!
   

> I believe you've lost the real meaning of 'proof' in this

process. I'm proving something exists, not proving that something
doesn't.

Oh, but that is the nature of mathematical proof. Finding a single
example of where an assertion fails is all it takes to be 100% sure
the assertion is false.

Like proving I've won has anything to do that. The assertion is that
I won as I say I did. You're assuming I do prove that point, but you
also want an escape based on a wild scenario of hundreds of useless
trips, unimagineable time wasting, illegally obtained funds, a life
of crime while not being caught, and the uncanny ability to tie it
all together in order that I'm able to make a published $640,000 bet
out of it with another public figure. Totally unreasonable, and the
arbitrator wouldn't even read past the first sentence before ruling
in my favor.
  

> Throwing that curve in that I still hit for a homer didn't make

you look like you think you look on these forums.

LMAO.

And that proves my point.

> You're effort at face-saving is admirable, but you're still
confused.
> Are you saying that I have a 1-in-1000 chance of winning ONE
SESSION,

No, I suspect your 87% claim is a little high but I have not

examined

the games you play in enough detail to figure out the exact number.
It is pretty simple math although a fairly involved effort since it
involves the exact variance and payback of the games. I'm more than
happy allowing for your 87% claim of session wins. It's the fact

the

system still losses long term that makes it a rare event for anyone
to come out ahead playing regularly for 7-8 years.

That's because you can't find it in you either to look at the
strategy session-by session, nor can you accept the large winners do
come in individual sessions rather than lost in some obscure
probability model.

···

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rgmustain" <rgmustain@a...> wrote:

I like this guy. I get more press than I deserve from him here, he
has helped keep the attention focused on me over on vpFREE at times,
and he helps perpetuate the subject title with the Rob Singer name in
it on WinPoker. And yes, I know who he really is, and I know he will
be coming to me for help sometime in the future when all his gambling
money is gone.

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Cogno Scienti"
<cognoscienti@g...> wrote:

Q1. Who is Rob Singer
A1. Rob Singer is the pen name of an Internet troll who claims he

has won

$640,000 playing video poker using his own system. He writes an

unpaid

column for Gaming Today, a weekly newspaper given away free in

casinos. He

has a book and posts frequently on the FREEvpFREE Yahoo Group.

Q2. Has he really won $640,000?
A2. Maybe. But he has been caught in so many other lies it seems

more likely

that he is lying about that too.

Q3. What other lies has he been caught in?
A3. Among others: he has claimed not to post under other aliases

but has

been caught doing so by two very well respected group

administrators. He has

claimed that most video-poker gurus have failed to make money when

the

reverse is true. He has claimed that playing positive-expectation

games

results in a loss without extraordinary luck when the reverse is

true. He

has claimed that his 1700+ "special" plays that deviate from

optimum play

add to his positive expectation when that is mathematically

impossible. He

has claimed that his system is not a Martingale-style progression

when it

is. And, of course, he continues to claim that his system works

when it is

mathematically impossible for it to do so.

Q4. Why is it mathematically impossible for his system to work?
A4. His system is based on playing games with a negative

expectation and

moving up in denomination when losing a certain amount at a lower
denomination. While this increases the chances of winning his $2500

goal

during any individual session, he risks $57,200 each time he

attempts to win

$2500. Like betting the Red or Black on Roulette and increasing the

bet

after a loss (the classic Martingale system), the system fails when

you

reach the maximum denomination and can no longer increase your bet.

At that

time, the fact that your bet has negative expectation (along with

all your

previous bets at smaller denominations) means you will likely lose

more than

you will win, and lose it in a devastating bust. Mathematically, it

is

impossible to devise ANY system that yields a positive expectation

from

playing a negative base game, so his claim that you can't evaluate

his

system unless you know his 1700 secret plays is nonsense.

Q5. He says traditional video poker strategy is for the long term,

which

none of us will ever reach in our lifetimes, and his system is for

the short

term and therefore can win. He says in the short term it doesn't

matter if

you play a 99% game or a 101% game. Is this the truth?
A5. No. If you're playing 10/7 Double Bonus and you play one hand

and hit a

Flush, you will be five coins richer than if you were playing 9/6

Double

Bonus and hit the Flush. There is no such thing as short term. All

the bets

you make over the course of your lifetime add up to an expectation.

What his

system does is ensure that you either win small or lose big in any

given

session.

Q6. But he says he has mathematical proof that his system has a

very high

likelihood of winning any one session and that he will never play

enough

sessions to reach the long term, so he is all but guaranteed a win.

Does he

have something here?
A6. No. Playing a negative game, it is proven mathematically that

the best

possible progression system give a player LESS THAN a B1/B2 chance

of

increasing his bankroll from B1 to B2. Since Singer's system starts

with a

bankroll of 57,200 and attempts to increase it to at least 59,700,

his

chance of doing that is less than 57,200/59,700 = 95.8%. Now

understand that

this is the mathematical maximum possible for any system and his

chances are

actually less because the game is negative and he has a chance to

overshoot

his goal. So the "long term" for his system is at most 24 sessions,

not many

lifetimes as he claims. And when he starts with only a 17,200

bankroll, his

chance of increasing it to 19,700 is AT MOST 87.3%. The "long term"

for that

play is only eight sessions! This is why it's very difficult to

believe that

he is ahead after more than 200 sessions.

Q7. He says the only EV that matters is your results and that by

making

plays such as holding a pat Flush versus four to a Royal if he

would reach

his win goal, he can improve his EV to 135% even though holding the

Flush

costs him "$7.75 in expectation." Is this right?
A7. On $100 8/5 Bonus Poker, holding a Flush versus four to a Royal

costs at

least $6606.38 in expectation. "EV" means "expected value" and

refers only

to the future, so saying the only EV that matters is in the past is
nonsensical.

Q8. He says three mathematicians and two publishers have verified

his

strategy. How can that be?
A8. It can't. No mathematician would verify his strategy because

very simple

mathematics proves it can't work. He cannot provide valid email

addresses

for them and no one has verified they exist. Of the two publishers,

one is

dead and the other would not confirm or deny his claim when

contacted by

email. When someone called his bluff and accepted a $10,000 bet to

verify

the existence of these mathematicians, Singer backed out of the

bet, saying

he would only meet at 4 a.m. and would not allow the bettor to

verify the

proofs.

Q9. He keeps offering to bet $640,000 that he can prove he won that

amount

through playing his system. Why would he do that if it wasn't true?
A9. He will never pay off that bet. In the past he has offered

first $1

million and then $2 million dollar proposition bets, both of which

he

indisputably lost. Singer welshed on the bets and claims he won

despite a

record of the entire exchange in the Yahoo Groups archives:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2165
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2175
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2177
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2180
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2183
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2215
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FREEvpFREE/message/2217

Since it is impossible for him to prove to a skeptic's satisfaction

that he

actually won the money playing his system, he will weasel out of

the bet

long before he has to deposit $640,000 in escrow.

Q10. Why does he constantly insult people rather than defend his

strategy

politely and rationally?
A10. Defending his system is a losing proposition, so there's

really no way

he can do that. He seems to enjoy insulting people. To be fair,

it's the

···

only thing he's ever demonstrated he's good at.

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rgmustain" <rgmustain@a...>

wrote:

> > Well golly gee, that certainly sounds like an all-day affair if
> there ever was one! And yup, Serenity sure sounds like an
appropriate movie for someone like you Dick. Fantasy, make-believe,

&

impossibilities-

> Isn't that pretty much the definition of MOST movies?

The movie I recently went to, Flight Plan, was capable of actually
happening. Are you thinking the scenario in Serenity is in the same
ballpark--at least on earth?

Serenity is based in the future. However, I don't think very many
people would find the movie very believable. Then again, that's not
usually the objective. If you hadn't caught on yet, the objective of
most movies is to entertain.

> > right up your alley! I'd say you did the day in the right order
> > though. You shopped BEFORE getting that comped meal and wasting
all
> > that time and money on the machines in that place YET AGAIN.

Good

> > thinking. I wish I had some of that.
>
> Where did I say I did any gambling? Nowhere. Are you ALWAYS wrong?

That's just it. Even when you don't say it, you do. Someone who

plays

as often and as long as you cannot simply walk in, eat dinner, then
walk out WITHOUT getting your fix at the machines. Ask Elliott.

Are you always wrong?

> > Um, read your offer to bet. Are you a true analyst or not?? You
> asked
> > for proof that the mathematicians EXIST, did you not? I told

you

> I'll
> > give you proof they exist today if they're still alive and/or

are

> > reachable because you don't want to believe they existed 9

years

> ago.

> There's no way to PROVE they are mathematicians without seeing
their proofs.

So you want proof not only that they exist (ed), but that they are
also mathematicians. Clarity is the only way.

Like I've said SEVERAL times already. The names/addresses/email ids
of the mathematicians and copies of their proofs.

> > If you want proof that my play strategy was developed in a

manner

> to
> > consistently win on ANY of the series of vp games that I say

they

> now
> > do, you should have said it that way in the first place and not
> made
> > an after-the-fact weasel stipulation so you could escape

another

> bet.
> > I have all the paperwork on my contribution to that event as

well

> as
> > their written analyses/advice, and it has nothing to do with
> whether
> > or not they now exist. When you get over discovering you're not
as
> > smart as you like to think you are, get back with me on it. And
be
> > clear this time.
>
> You could write any baloney, which you do quite often. The only

way

> to see if these so-called experts exist is to see their proofs.

Of

> course, this is exactly what I predicted at the end of my last
note. Don't you just hate it when I'm right all the time.

As stated above, what you need to do is learn how to say what you
mean.

I have several times.

Of course, you're not being an articulate writer has something
to do with that--and you might be able to pass off your nebulous
nonsense armed with your escape loopholes, to others--but with me
you're shananagans are caught with ease. Say what you mean, and

mean

what you say.

Ho hum. Your obvious weaseling is getting boring.

> > Wrong. Since I'm the important one here and you're a nobody (do
you get that yet?) I say when and where. P.S.--I like how you're

now

> calling the other fool the name 'Congo'. You're getting that one.

> It doesn't matter now, does it? You've already backed down, again.

The point you missed is that you got hit in the sweet spot and are
slow to react. The bet's on if you can state what you want without
all the baloney attached.

LMAO. weasel ... weasel .... weasel

> > I can get your juices flowing on that right now. The strategy
> > recognizes and the calculations prove out, MATHEMATICALLY, how
ONE
> > SESSION will have a very favorable chance of attaining the win
goal
> > of $2500 minimum (which you and your cohorts like to call "the
> small
> > wins").
>
> I've always said a progressive system favors more session wins

and

a
> few much larger losses. That's the nature of ALL progressive
systems. This is easily "calculated" and simple to understand. It's
the hook in your scam where you conviently forget to mention the
IMPACT of the large losses.

First, it'd be a 'hook in the scam' if I were taking people's money
from selling them strategy, or selling them that doesn't work

and/or

hasn't been proven to work in casinos.

It doesn't matter what you GAIN. The fact that you are promoting this
system means you are selling a scam.

You know why you're wrong
there. And you're still stupified by "the large losses". It's a
mystery why you don't recognize the impact of the more frequent

large

winners. Is it that hard to write?

No, it's just not a given with your system. If it were you would take
Cognos' bet on future results.

>
> Now, if only you promoted using your system on positive machines
ONLY
> then we could discuss the other impacts of using a progressive
> system. Of course, it's virtually impossible to find a 5 level
> progressive set of games that are all positive, isn't it?

Yes, which is why I went into the strategy's development knowing

I'd

have to work with MOSTLY machines at just under 100%.

And, therefore there was no way for you make a name for yourself
without constantly lieing.

If either the
numbers didn't work out up front OR my 12 trials at lower
denominations didn't prove to me it worked (12-0), I would have
instantly scrapped plans to use the strategy to play for profit
professionally.

Or, you could have actually contacted a mathematician who would have
told you the system could never turn a negative expectation game into
a positive one.

> And, it doesn't show how it can change a negative expectation

into

a
> positive one, does it? The "giant" wins are simply a part of the
> overall NEGATIVE expectation. All it means is that the rest of

the

> game pays back even less which improves the chances of having a
large
> loss. A five level progression on an even money bet will win 15

out

> of 16 times. That's almost 94% for the math challenged like

Robbie

> boy.

No, you're doing what you do best--assuming the giant wins are
meaningless. You're stuck, so you resort back to the escape clause
you always do--negative means loss and positive means win.

Nope. Those "giant" wins are already accounted for in the games
negative expectation. You'll need to come up with something that is
NOT accounted for in the games' expectation. PS. There aren't any.

> > The numbers proved that the big
> > win is much more probable again, in one session.
>
> It cannot show this. This is a lie. This is the heart of your

scam.

> There is no system that can improve the odds of hitting a big

hand.

> The odds are the same on every single hand that you play. This

has

> been proved many times over and none of your lies can change it.

Read it again, this time understanding it.

Oh, I understand it just fine. A lot more than you would like.

The big win is more
probable than the big loss.

Your using "big" all wrong here. The actual size of the win or loss
depends on the denom being played. Only relative size has any
meaning. That's why $2500 (or even $20000) isn't big compared to a
$57,500 loss.

And you're obviously wrong on the next
point too. I can easily improve my odds of hitting a big win by

only

going for royals on every hand.

At the cost of significantly larger losses and lowering the
expectation of the game even more. If you want to claim that is how
your system works have at it.

And when you boil that down to
reality, the special plays take that to the next level that you

think

does not exist.

It doesn't. You would have to demonstrate how they would change the
negative expectation. You can't since these wonderous special plays
only LOWER the overall expectation.

What you've think you've proven is what long-term
strategy theory has to say about my strategy, and it has nothing to
do with that at all. Drop the infinity hat and look at it as a

single

session, and you'll eliminate the knots in your stomach.

As I stated previously, it has nothing to do with infinity. you might
want to read ahead a little bit next time.

> > Unlike how you and
> > others would like to now plug this into some sort of long-term
> > analysis--which my play will NEVER attain because of the number
of sessions I'll play for the amount of time I do this--and how you
> > would instantly and illogically say that playing negative games
> will only yield a loser as well as the obvious and simple

opposite,

the true analysis remains a single session analysis because that's
how a short term strategy is played.
>
> It has nothing to do with short term or long term. It has
everything
> to do with analyzing a SINGLE hand and then extrapolating the
results
> to any number of hands you play. It does not care if the hands

are

> played in a single day or a 100 days (or a 100 single days). The
math
> is the same. You can't get away with the "long term" argument any
> more, monkey boy. The long term is not required to show your

system

> can NEVER change a negative expectation game into a positive one.

You're still lost & confused and will forever remain that way,
because if you EVER made the effort to understand this instead of
blocking your mind and repeating your long-term theory craziness,
then it would turn your statistic-laden, optimal-play neurosis

video

poker play upside down and inside out--causing a complete and
permanent tilt. Most people in your hopeless mode eventually come

to

me privately, and they're glad they did.

By not refuting a single thing I just said, you are making it obvious
to everyone that I am 100% correct. Using idiotic remarks
like "statistic-laden" when I never quoted a single statistic only
makes you look more the fool. If this were not bad enough, the
statistics that you hate so much are used in casinos EVERY single day.

> > Where you feel the urge (and you'll
> > erroneously say it's because that's how math operates, just to
feel
> > good for no known reason, without looking at the entire scope

of

> > what's on the table) to do some model into infinity or to call
upon
> > the law of large numbers as a defense, neither is of any value
> here.
> > A session is a session.
>
> And, as I just pointed out, a single hand is all this is

required.

I hope you realize how this latest baloney of yours has made it so
> obvious that your system is a scam.

All you pointed out was how little you know--which makes me look

all

the more reasonable to the knowledgeable player.

More monkey boy rhetoric with nothing to refute my factual
statements. How does it feel to look like a complete fool?

> > It is not a part of anything else. To say
> > what you do about them all being combined---about how a player

on

> one
> > side of the bell curve will eventually even out if playing all
> games
> > at 100%---means that current results are being influenced by

past

> > results, and that makes no sense.
>
> Did anyone hear me say that? Nope, future results are never
> influenced by past results. The hands are all independent. That's
> EXACTLY why I can say your system is a scam. What independent

means

> is that the overall expectation can be found by simply adding the
> expectations of the individual hands and dividing by the total
number
> of hands. So simple. Short term ... long term ... doesn't matter.

Now you're trying the doubletalk route.

No, it's call simple mathematics. You should try it sometime.

Are you trying to say the
bell curve example above WON'T mathematically even out?

No, I didn't say anything about the bell curve. I don't need to get
into that to prove your system is a scam.

And are you
disagreeing when Bob Dancer, et al, writes that "If I lose today

I'm

not worried, because with my strategy I KNOW I'll win eventually

win

and I'll be fine"?

If you are going to quote someone, please provide an exact reference.
Otherwise I can only assume this was made up and is, simply, another
one of your lies.

That easily means because there's a known losing
streak, there's also a known winning streak to come.

Nothing is "known" about the future.

That's a
dependence on influencing hands dicky, whether alone, in pairs, or
bunches.

There is no dependence. It would violate the law.

I'm always the one who's strategy always is played one hand
at a time, and that nothing is influenced by anything else. A

winning

hand is the result of good luck, and a losing hand is bad luck.
Simple and easy. The way short term strategy needs to be understood
in order to be consistently successful.

No, you're the one who advises people to play with a negative
expectation which will lead the vast majority of players who try your
system to dismal failure.

By the way, there is only one way anyone CAN play VP. One hand at a
time.

> > The entire analysis is based on a
> > single session probability model, which is how every single
player ever plays.
>
> Nope. My "entire analysis" is based on analyzing a single hand

and

> then having the ability to ADD.

Then that's why you aren't able to cope with or understand the
analysis of my play strategy.

Nope, that's why I can easily cope with your strategy. I can see it's
all smoke and mirrors just like any other Martingale-like system. All
you have to understand is good old simple arithmetic. I've explained
it to you so even a grade school child could understand. The ONLY
reasonable explanation for anyone doubting my statements is they are
a liar and a fraud.

And never will. Illogic at an early age
has a chance of correcting itself. But for you, not now.

PURE logic. Plain and simple as it gets.
      

> > I believe you've lost the real meaning of 'proof' in this
process. I'm proving something exists, not proving that something
doesn't.

> Oh, but that is the nature of mathematical proof. Finding a

single

> example of where an assertion fails is all it takes to be 100%

sure

> the assertion is false.

Like proving I've won has anything to do that. The assertion is

that

I won as I say I did. You're assuming I do prove that point, but

you

also want an escape based on a wild scenario of hundreds of useless
trips, unimagineable time wasting, illegally obtained funds, a life
of crime while not being caught, and the uncanny ability to tie it
all together in order that I'm able to make a published $640,000

bet

out of it with another public figure.

LIke I said before, it really isn't that difficult. The fact that you
try to make it sound difficult is cause to make one wonder ...

Totally unreasonable, and the
arbitrator wouldn't even read past the first sentence before ruling
in my favor.

Still trying to hold onto that baloney. EVERY math trained individual
would quickly agree that you had not PROVED anything.

> > You're effort at face-saving is admirable, but you're still
> confused.
> > Are you saying that I have a 1-in-1000 chance of winning ONE
> SESSION,
>
> No, I suspect your 87% claim is a little high but I have not
examined
> the games you play in enough detail to figure out the exact

number.

> It is pretty simple math although a fairly involved effort since

it

> involves the exact variance and payback of the games. I'm more

than

> happy allowing for your 87% claim of session wins. It's the fact
the
> system still losses long term that makes it a rare event for

anyone

> to come out ahead playing regularly for 7-8 years.

That's because you can't find it in you either to look at the
strategy session-by session,

I wonder how many times you will ignore the fact that an arbitrarily
defined session is meaningless. The ONLY valid measure is the
individual hands' expectation. All future possibilities are simply an
extrapolation from that point.

I can see you're getting completely lost.

nor can you accept the large winners do
come in individual sessions rather than lost in some obscure
probability model.

Large wins come on individual hands and anyones' results are the sum
of those hands. It can't get any simpler.

···

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "aces_hii" <aces_hii@y...> wrote:

> The movie I recently went to, Flight Plan, was capable of

actually happening. Are you thinking the scenario in Serenity is in
the same ballpark--at least on earth?

Serenity is based in the future. However, I don't think very many
people would find the movie very believable. Then again, that's not
usually the objective. If you hadn't caught on yet, the objective

of most movies is to entertain.

That's right, but certain people are very predictable in what they
like or do. Fantasy & make believe seem to be right in line with the
person you portray yourself to be here--and it's all because of your
outworldly visions of what you'd love to see video poker to be really
like..

> Where did I say I did any gambling? Nowhere. Are you ALWAYS wrong?

> That's just it. Even when you don't say it, you do. Someone who
plays as often and as long as you cannot simply walk in, eat

dinner, then walk out WITHOUT getting your fix at the machines. Ask
Elliott.

Are you always wrong?

Like I said, ask Elliott. He's stuck in the same rut you
are....probably even more so.
   

> As stated above, what you need to do is learn how to say what you
> mean.

I have several times.

If you had you wouldn't had said multiple things while expecting I'd
know what you're thinking.

> Of course, you're not being an articulate writer has something
> to do with that--and you might be able to pass off your nebulous
> nonsense armed with your escape loopholes, to others--but with me
> you're shananagans are caught with ease. Say what you mean, and
mean what you say.

Ho hum. Your obvious weaseling is getting boring.

Tough to read the truth, isn't it.

> The point you missed is that you got hit in the sweet spot and

are slow to react. The bet's on if you can state what you want
without all the baloney attached.

LMAO. weasel ... weasel .... weasel

Sounds like you're late for your casino fix today again.
  

> First, it'd be a 'hook in the scam' if I were taking people's

money from selling them strategy, or selling them that doesn't work

and/or hasn't been proven to work in casinos.

It doesn't matter what you GAIN. The fact that you are promoting

this system means you are selling a scam.

So now that I've called you on your claim that I'm making money off
of people selling a 'scam', you promptly change it to some sort of
indefineable 'gain'. Hmmmm.... Stuck again??

> You know why you're wrong
> there. And you're still stupified by "the large losses". It's a
> mystery why you don't recognize the impact of the more frequent
large winners. Is it that hard to write?

No, it's just not a given with your system. If it were you would

take Cognos' bet on future results.

Here's a hint: Congo would NEVER bet me on the outcome of a one-time
session--and neither would you. You both aren't very bright when it
comes to video poker strategy, but you both know I have a much better
chance of winning it than losing it. All this talk of a bet is for up-
front feel-good positioning only, but when the rubber hits the road
you'll both be long gone. Typical hypocritical BS from my critics.

> Yes, which is why I went into the strategy's development knowing
I'd have to work with MOSTLY machines at just under 100%.

And, therefore there was no way for you make a name for yourself
without constantly lieing.

That's been proven wrong in case you haven't noticed. Even you are
almost one of my groupies.
  

> No, you're doing what you do best--assuming the giant wins are
> meaningless. You're stuck, so you resort back to the escape

clause you always do--negative means loss and positive means win.

Nope. Those "giant" wins are already accounted for in the games
negative expectation. You'll need to come up with something that is
NOT accounted for in the games' expectation. PS. There aren't any.

And that erroneous statement is exactly why the strategy is analyzed
as a one-session event. All that theory into infiniti is for losers
who want to make believe they can really win if they REALLY REALLY
try.

> The big win is more
> probable than the big loss.

Your using "big" all wrong here. The actual size of the win or loss
depends on the denom being played. Only relative size has any
meaning. That's why $2500 (or even $20000) isn't big compared to a
$57,500 loss.

Very typical of you again to leave out the $40,000/$50,000 or higher
wins--which I have hit over the years.

> And you're obviously wrong on the next
> point too. I can easily improve my odds of hitting a big win by
only going for royals on every hand.

At the cost of significantly larger losses and lowering the
expectation of the game even more. If you want to claim that is how
your system works have at it.

But that wasn't your point and you got caught up in your nonsense
again, didn't you. Next time be more careful and I won't scold you in
public.

> And when you boil that down to
> reality, the special plays take that to the next level that you
think does not exist.

It doesn't. You would have to demonstrate how they would change the
negative expectation. You can't since these wonderous special plays
only LOWER the overall expectation.

In your long-term theory, not short-term. You'll never get it because
you've programmed your head with all that nonsense in order to make
yourself feel better about losing. You've trapped yourself.

> You're still lost & confused and will forever remain that way,
> because if you EVER made the effort to understand this instead of
> blocking your mind and repeating your long-term theory craziness,
> then it would turn your statistic-laden, optimal-play neurosis
video
> poker play upside down and inside out--causing a complete and
> permanent tilt. Most people in your hopeless mode eventually come
to me privately, and they're glad they did.

By not refuting a single thing I just said, you are making it

obvious

to everyone that I am 100% correct. Using idiotic remarks
like "statistic-laden" when I never quoted a single statistic only
makes you look more the fool. If this were not bad enough, the
statistics that you hate so much are used in casinos EVERY single

day.

All you have to say is "But gee Rob, you can't turn a negative game
into a positive one". But I do it all the time and you don't like it,
because I measure the game AFTER my results are in. No game is
positive or negative unless and until you play it and look at your
results afterwards, bozo. You don't win based on theory, and you
don't take phantom bucks to the bank for a deposit. Until you clear
your head of the baloney you've instilled there, you'll never get up
to my level of understanding.
  

> Are you trying to say the
> bell curve example above WON'T mathematically even out?

No, I didn't say anything about the bell curve. I don't need to get
into that to prove your system is a scam.

More non-responsive doubletalk. Answer the question.

> And are you
> disagreeing when Bob Dancer, et al, writes that "If I lose today
I'm
> not worried, because with my strategy I KNOW I'll win eventually
win
> and I'll be fine"?

If you are going to quote someone, please provide an exact

reference. Otherwise I can only assume this was made up and is,
simply, another one of your lies.

That's your main problem--you assume most of what you train yourself
into believing. He said it numerous time, and I don't waste time
looking things up because of my superior memory.

> I'm always the one who's strategy always is played one hand
> at a time, and that nothing is influenced by anything else. A
winning
> hand is the result of good luck, and a losing hand is bad luck.
> Simple and easy. The way short term strategy needs to be

understood

> in order to be consistently successful.

No, you're the one who advises people to play with a negative
expectation which will lead the vast majority of players who try

your system to dismal failure.

And that answers this question?? Are you getting frustrated again?

Illogic at an early age

> has a chance of correcting itself. But for you, not now.

PURE logic. Plain and simple as it gets.

When someone like you continues to make no sense, it's illogic. PURE
ILLOGIC!
       

> > > I believe you've lost the real meaning of 'proof' in this
> process. I'm proving something exists, not proving that something
> doesn't.
>
> > Oh, but that is the nature of mathematical proof. Finding a
single
> > example of where an assertion fails is all it takes to be 100%
sure
> > the assertion is false.
>
> Like proving I've won has anything to do that. The assertion is
that
> I won as I say I did. You're assuming I do prove that point, but
you
> also want an escape based on a wild scenario of hundreds of

useless

> trips, unimagineable time wasting, illegally obtained funds, a

life

> of crime while not being caught, and the uncanny ability to tie

it

> all together in order that I'm able to make a published $640,000
bet
> out of it with another public figure.

LIke I said before, it really isn't that difficult. The fact that

you

try to make it sound difficult is cause to make one wonder ...

> Totally unreasonable, and the
> arbitrator wouldn't even read past the first sentence before

ruling

> in my favor.

Still trying to hold onto that baloney. EVERY math trained

individual would quickly agree that you had not PROVED anything.

....just the ones who pee their pants at the thought of having to bet
with me, dicky......
  

> That's because you can't find it in you either to look at the
> strategy session-by session,

I wonder how many times you will ignore the fact that an

arbitrarily defined session is meaningless. The ONLY valid measure is
the individual hands' expectation. All future possibilities are
simply an extrapolation from that point.

And I wonder how many times it will take you to see that a future
make-believe guess on results based on EV and all that other nonsense
is meaningless. The only thing that matters is what happens TODAY
after you play, and I ADD up the results session by session, one at a
time, and have won far more and far more often than anyone else
because of it. You'd simply sit for hours pounding away aimlessly,
right on through the royals and other large winners searching for
that stupid tiny win percentage by the time you get to the grave.
Foolishness? Absolutely.

···

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rgmustain" <rgmustain@a...> wrote:

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rgmustain" <rgmustain@a...>

wrote:

> > The movie I recently went to, Flight Plan, was capable of
actually happening. Are you thinking the scenario in Serenity is in
the same ballpark--at least on earth?
>
> Serenity is based in the future. However, I don't think very many
> people would find the movie very believable. Then again, that's

not

> usually the objective. If you hadn't caught on yet, the objective
of most movies is to entertain.

That's right, but certain people are very predictable in what they
like or do. Fantasy & make believe seem to be right in line with

the

person you portray yourself to be here--and it's all because of

your

outworldly visions of what you'd love to see video poker to be

really

like..

Hmmm. You base this on what? One movie? And, what? I must therefore
be addicted to movies and waste my time watching them. I mean, all
that popcorn is clearly unhealthy. You want me sign up for the Rob
Singer movie strategy and save myself now. LMAO.

I guess you've never been to an action/adventure movie.

> Where did I say I did any gambling? Nowhere. Are you ALWAYS

wrong?

> > That's just it. Even when you don't say it, you do. Someone who
> plays as often and as long as you cannot simply walk in, eat
dinner, then walk out WITHOUT getting your fix at the machines. Ask
Elliott.

> Are you always wrong?

Like I said, ask Elliott. He's stuck in the same rut you
are....probably even more so.

No, he knows exactly what he is doing and, like the rest of us APs,
he does it because it is what he WANTS to do. Your idiotic comments
have no basis in common sense and are only meant to futher your
agenda ... promoting your fraudulent system.

> > As stated above, what you need to do is learn how to say what

you

> > mean.

> I have several times.

If you had you wouldn't had said multiple things while expecting

I'd

know what you're thinking.

I didn't.

>
> > Of course, you're not being an articulate writer has something
> > to do with that--and you might be able to pass off your

nebulous

> > nonsense armed with your escape loopholes, to others--but with

me

> > you're shananagans are caught with ease. Say what you mean, and
> mean what you say.

> Ho hum. Your obvious weaseling is getting boring.

Tough to read the truth, isn't it.

I guess so, since you still didn't say anything relavent.

> > The point you missed is that you got hit in the sweet spot and
are slow to react. The bet's on if you can state what you want
without all the baloney attached.
>
> LMAO. weasel ... weasel .... weasel

Sounds like you're late for your casino fix today again.

No, that sound is me hitting the nail squarely on the head. Are you
ever going to say anything relavent?

> > First, it'd be a 'hook in the scam' if I were taking people's
money from selling them strategy, or selling them that doesn't work
> and/or hasn't been proven to work in casinos.
>
> It doesn't matter what you GAIN. The fact that you are promoting
this system means you are selling a scam.

So now that I've called you on your claim that I'm making money off
of people selling a 'scam', you promptly change it to some sort of
indefineable 'gain'. Hmmmm.... Stuck again??

No. I've stated this over and over again. You have gained monetary
benefit and your primary goal is pumping up your ego. You have this
all encompassing desire to viewed as an expert.

Now, how many times will it take before you learn to read?

> > You know why you're wrong
> > there. And you're still stupified by "the large losses". It's a
> > mystery why you don't recognize the impact of the more frequent
> large winners. Is it that hard to write?
>
> No, it's just not a given with your system. If it were you would
take Cognos' bet on future results.

Here's a hint: Congo would NEVER bet me on the outcome of a one-

time

session--and neither would you.

Of course not. We understand the math. The odds are you will have
more small session wins and a few larger losses. That's the way it is
with ALL Martingale like systems.

You both aren't very bright when it
comes to video poker strategy, but you both know I have a much

better

chance of winning it than losing it. All this talk of a bet is for

up-

front feel-good positioning only, but when the rubber hits the road
you'll both be long gone. Typical hypocritical BS from my critics.

You still haven't taken him up on his bet. That's when "the rubber
hits the road".

> > Yes, which is why I went into the strategy's development

knowing

> I'd have to work with MOSTLY machines at just under 100%.
>
> And, therefore there was no way for you make a name for yourself
> without constantly lieing.

That's been proven wrong in case you haven't noticed.

I noticed, and nothing you can say will change the fact that you have
been proven to be a liar many times. Your use of the aces_hii id is
even more verification.

> > No, you're doing what you do best--assuming the giant wins are
> > meaningless. You're stuck, so you resort back to the escape
clause you always do--negative means loss and positive means win.
>
> Nope. Those "giant" wins are already accounted for in the games
> negative expectation. You'll need to come up with something that

is

> NOT accounted for in the games' expectation. PS. There aren't any.

And that erroneous statement is exactly why the strategy is

analyzed

as a one-session event.

Wrong moron. All sessions are the sum of the individual hands played
in that session. You can choose whatever you want to define a session
and all I need to do is show that THAT session is made up of N
individual hands. If these hands are played on negative expectation
games then your session will have a negative expectation. It's so
easy and there's absolutely nothing you can say that will EVER change
this fact.

All that theory into infiniti is for losers
who want to make believe they can really win if they REALLY REALLY
try.

> > The big win is more
> > probable than the big loss.
>
> Your using "big" all wrong here. The actual size of the win or

loss

> depends on the denom being played. Only relative size has any
> meaning. That's why $2500 (or even $20000) isn't big compared to

a

> $57,500 loss.

Very typical of you again to leave out the $40,000/$50,000 or

higher

wins--which I have hit over the years.

So what, we've had our share of relatively big wins. It means nothing
because the ONLY thing that matters in the future is what is your
expectation.

> > And you're obviously wrong on the next
> > point too. I can easily improve my odds of hitting a big win by
> only going for royals on every hand.
>
> At the cost of significantly larger losses and lowering the
> expectation of the game even more. If you want to claim that is

how

> your system works have at it.

But that wasn't your point and you got caught up in your nonsense
again, didn't you. Next time be more careful and I won't scold you

in

public.

Nope. You missed it again. This is really getting to be a habit with
you. Maybe you should sign up for reading classes.

> > And when you boil that down to
> > reality, the special plays take that to the next level that you
> think does not exist.
>
> It doesn't. You would have to demonstrate how they would change

the

> negative expectation. You can't since these wonderous special

plays

> only LOWER the overall expectation.

In your long-term theory, not short-term.

Nope, in my single hand analysis. Short term, long term, doesn't
matter. They are both just extrapolation of individual hands.

> > You're still lost & confused and will forever remain that way,
> > because if you EVER made the effort to understand this instead

of

> > blocking your mind and repeating your long-term theory

craziness,

> > then it would turn your statistic-laden, optimal-play neurosis
> video
> > poker play upside down and inside out--causing a complete and
> > permanent tilt. Most people in your hopeless mode eventually

come

> to me privately, and they're glad they did.
>
> By not refuting a single thing I just said, you are making it
obvious
> to everyone that I am 100% correct. Using idiotic remarks
> like "statistic-laden" when I never quoted a single statistic

only

> makes you look more the fool. If this were not bad enough, the
> statistics that you hate so much are used in casinos EVERY single
day.

All you have to say is "But gee Rob, you can't turn a negative game
into a positive one".

No "buts' about it.

But I do it all the time and you don't like it,

You CLAIM you do but haven't provided any evidence that anyone could
repeat the process. And, isn't that the jist of the matter. No one
cares what you or I have done in the past, they only care about what
approach gives them the best chance in the future.

because I measure the game AFTER my results are in.

No one cares.

No game is
positive or negative unless and until you play it and look at your
results afterwards, bozo.

Every game has an expectation (positive, even or negative).

You don't win based on theory, and you
don't take phantom bucks to the bank for a deposit. Until you clear
your head of the baloney you've instilled there, you'll never get

up

to my level of understanding.

All that baloney won't give anybody any idea on what they can expect
to accomplish in the future. Only you care about the past. The rest
of us are only interested in the future. If you really believed your
past results were indicative of future chances you would have taken
Cognos' bet a long time ago.

> > Are you trying to say the
> > bell curve example above WON'T mathematically even out?
>
> No, I didn't say anything about the bell curve. I don't need to

get

> into that to prove your system is a scam.

More non-responsive doubletalk. Answer the question.

I did. I thought you believed statistics was all mumbo-jumbo.
However, if you want to hold a rational discussion about future
possibilities using statistical analysis, I'd be happy to oblige.

First of all, statistical analysis can ONLY be used to forecast
FUTURE events. It has nothing to do with past events. There is NO
concept of "evening out". What's in the past will stay there forever,
what awaits you in the future can be predicted within certain bounds
using statisical analysis. The results of the analysis can be graphed
using something similar to a bell-curve.

> > And are you
> > disagreeing when Bob Dancer, et al, writes that "If I lose

today

> I'm
> > not worried, because with my strategy I KNOW I'll win

eventually

> win
> > and I'll be fine"?
>
> If you are going to quote someone, please provide an exact
reference. Otherwise I can only assume this was made up and is,
simply, another one of your lies.

That's your main problem--you assume most of what you train

yourself

into believing. He said it numerous time, and I don't waste time
looking things up because of my superior memory.

Let's assume for the moment you have quoted Bob correctly. His
statement IS based on sound mathematical principles because he is
ONLY describing future events ("I KNOW I'll win eventually" ). He is
using the very same statistical analysis technique I just mentioned
to understand the future possibilities. He understands that the
higher the expectation of the game he plays, the more likely it is
that he will win.

> > I'm always the one who's strategy always is played one hand
> > at a time, and that nothing is influenced by anything else. A
> winning
> > hand is the result of good luck, and a losing hand is bad luck.
> > Simple and easy. The way short term strategy needs to be
understood
> > in order to be consistently successful.
>
> No, you're the one who advises people to play with a negative
> expectation which will lead the vast majority of players who try
your system to dismal failure.

And that answers this question??

You didn't ask a question. You made an assertion that is clearly
wrong because no one will be "consistently successful" playing
negative games. I simply pointed out that FACT.

Are you getting frustrated again?

No.

Illogic at an early age
> > has a chance of correcting itself. But for you, not now.
>
> PURE logic. Plain and simple as it gets.

When someone like you continues to make no sense, it's illogic.

PURE

ILLOGIC!

I've made perfect sense. You ignore it and hope it goes away so you
can go back to promoting your fraudulent system. It won't work.

> > > > I believe you've lost the real meaning of 'proof' in this
> > process. I'm proving something exists, not proving that

something

> > doesn't.
> >
> > > Oh, but that is the nature of mathematical proof. Finding a
> single
> > > example of where an assertion fails is all it takes to be

100%

> sure
> > > the assertion is false.
> >
> > Like proving I've won has anything to do that. The assertion is
> that
> > I won as I say I did. You're assuming I do prove that point,

but

> you
> > also want an escape based on a wild scenario of hundreds of
useless
> > trips, unimagineable time wasting, illegally obtained funds, a
life
> > of crime while not being caught, and the uncanny ability to tie
it
> > all together in order that I'm able to make a published

$640,000

> bet
> > out of it with another public figure.
>
> LIke I said before, it really isn't that difficult. The fact that
you
> try to make it sound difficult is cause to make one wonder ...
>
> > Totally unreasonable, and the
> > arbitrator wouldn't even read past the first sentence before
ruling
> > in my favor.
>
> Still trying to hold onto that baloney. EVERY math trained
individual would quickly agree that you had not PROVED anything.

....just the ones who pee their pants at the thought of having to

bet

with me, dicky......

Is that why you backed out of the bet??? I can always tell when I've
really gotten to you. You immediately revert back to your 3rd grade
intellect.

> > That's because you can't find it in you either to look at the
> > strategy session-by session,
>
> I wonder how many times you will ignore the fact that an
arbitrarily defined session is meaningless. The ONLY valid measure

is

the individual hands' expectation. All future possibilities are
simply an extrapolation from that point.

And I wonder how many times it will take you to see that a future
make-believe guess on results based on EV and all that other

nonsense

is meaningless.

Please tell that to the casinos. They must be worried sick that the
methods they use every day are "meaningless".

The only thing that matters is what happens TODAY

And, the only way to give yourself the advantage in planning for
today is to understand the games you play and the overall expectation.

···

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "aces_hii" <aces_hii@y...> wrote:

Hmmm. You base this on what? One movie?

YOUR movie. That's all it takes, unless you want to make believe this
subject also is subject to your faulty long-term theories.

And, what? I must therefore

be addicted to movies and waste my time watching them. I mean, all
that popcorn is clearly unhealthy. You want me sign up for the Rob
Singer movie strategy and save myself now. LMAO.

Here's the RS movie strategy for use anytime you'd like to step up in
the world: See a REALISTIC movie that doesn't make nerds pee their
pants in excitement every time a goober pushes a button on his laptop
and creates theoretical scenes only a director could love. Popcorn--I
eat it every day.

> Like I said, ask Elliott. He's stuck in the same rut you
> are....probably even more so.

No, he knows exactly what he is doing and, like the rest of us APs,
he does it because it is what he WANTS to do. Your idiotic comments
have no basis in common sense and are only meant to futher your
agenda ... promoting your fraudulent system.

Then you don't know him and you don't know others who know him. All
you believe is what you'd like to believe, and only for your own self-
confidence building.
      

> Sounds like you're late for your casino fix today again.

No, that sound is me hitting the nail squarely on the head. Are you
ever going to say anything relavent?

You're wandering again. Get your mind off of the machines for just a
few miuntes and pay attention for a change. I know it's tough love--
choosing between the machines and me.
   

No. I've stated this over and over again. You have gained monetary
benefit and your primary goal is pumping up your ego. You have this
all encompassing desire to viewed as an expert.

Ego comes with being the best--something you continually long for.
I've gained monetary benefits all right--$645,000 of it. As far as my
being an expert, that's understood even before I started working you
over.

> Here's a hint: Congo would NEVER bet me on the outcome of a one-
time session--and neither would you.

Of course not. We understand the math. The odds are you will have
more small session wins and a few larger losses. That's the way it

is with ALL Martingale like systems.

Good for you. So now do you also understand that Congo's making
believe he'd like to bet me on this is just another AP fantasy???

> You both aren't very bright when it
> comes to video poker strategy, but you both know I have a much
better chance of winning it than losing it. All this talk of a bet

is for up-front feel-good positioning only, but when the rubber hits
the road you'll both be long gone. Typical hypocritical BS from my
critics.

You still haven't taken him up on his bet. That's when "the rubber
hits the road".

You don't get it yet.
  

Your use of the aces_hii id is even more verification.

You're getting nervous again so you bring the same old news up. Read
why. You're good at going back and reliving things. That's all you've
got to live for any more anyways--unless you consider a 9-hour family
trip to a smelly casino valuable quality time..
   
> No, you're doing what you do best--assuming the giant wins are

> > > meaningless. You're stuck, so you resort back to the escape
> clause you always do--negative means loss and positive means win.
> >
> > Nope. Those "giant" wins are already accounted for in the games
> > negative expectation. You'll need to come up with something

that is NOT accounted for in the games' expectation. PS. There aren't
any.

There's your faulty long-term explanation leaking out again!

Wrong moron. All sessions are the sum of the individual hands

played in that session. You can choose whatever you want to define a
session

Good for you again. A single session for me is one in which I win a
minimum of $2500 and quit. The # of hands you're so interested in has
no bearing.

and all I need to do is show that THAT session is made up of N
individual hands. If these hands are played on negative expectation
games then your session will have a negative expectation.

Yeah right. +$2500 certainly is NEGATIVE, Dopey. Only a mystified
geek like you would ever worry about EV BEFORE the session is
completed.

It's so

easy and there's absolutely nothing you can say that will EVER

change this fact.

I just did, and it made you look all the more foolish for it. Again.
And again.

> Very typical of you again to leave out the $40,000/$50,000 or
higher
> wins--which I have hit over the years.

So what, we've had our share of relatively big wins. It means

nothing because the ONLY thing that matters in the future is what is
your expectation.

Good again, Einstein! Now we're talking on the same frequency. I
expect TO WIN and win often, and continue to win. You're making this
easy....like pie in the sky!
  

> In your long-term theory, not short-term.

Nope, in my single hand analysis. Short term, long term, doesn't
matter. They are both just extrapolation of individual hands.

Here's more help for the helpless. Last fall on the $25 DDB game (2
separate sessions at Venetian) I EXPECTED to see several hands with 2-
pr.--one pair of which was 2's, 3's, or 4's. I also expected to have
to break the 2-pr. in order to have any chance at winning the
sessions. Several times I was disappointed, but on the last hand of
both sessions the quads appeared--and both with a kicker. Just as I
EXPECTED. Kind of blows your Expected Value theory right out of the
water, hey?? Gee, ninety $25 credits sure would have been a TON
better than 1600!!!! I sure wish none of my plays were special
ones!!!!!!!!!!!!
  

No one
cares what you or I have done in the past, they only care about

what approach gives them the best chance in the future.

then they should come to me and get a lesson in how to win. Ask them
if they would rather make the 'safe' play--and oh yes, $2250 in
phantom bucks--or go home with $40,000 in cash?? Let me laugh at you
now, I just can't hold it in any longer....HAHAHAHAHA!
  

No one cares.

You as a nerdy analyst who lives by theory alone don't, but I, as the
only one who matters when I play, do.

> You don't win based on theory, and you
> don't take phantom bucks to the bank for a deposit. Until you

clear your head of the baloney you've instilled there, you'll never
get up to my level of understanding.

All that baloney won't give anybody any idea on what they can

expect to accomplish in the future. Only you care about the past. The
rest of us are only interested in the future. If you really believed
your past results were indicative of future chances you would have
taken Cognos' bet a long time ago.

Yup, I care about the past because I have won so much, and YOU care
about the past because you can't stand me for it (i.e., jealousy,
whether you'll admit it or not). In the future I of course expect to
keep it up because the strategy works as it was developed to work.

> More non-responsive doubletalk. Answer the question.

I did. I thought you believed statistics was all mumbo-jumbo.
However, if you want to hold a rational discussion about future
possibilities using statistical analysis, I'd be happy to oblige.

From what I've seen of you here and on Winpoker, you're all talk with
no substance, and a person of my education wouldn't waste time
talking statistical analyses to a low-class, addicted video poker
playing programmer like you.

> That's your main problem--you assume most of what you train
yourself
> into believing. He said it numerous time, and I don't waste time
> looking things up because of my superior memory.

Let's assume for the moment you have quoted Bob correctly. His
statement IS based on sound mathematical principles because he is
ONLY describing future events ("I KNOW I'll win eventually" ). He

is

using the very same statistical analysis technique I just mentioned
to understand the future possibilities. He understands that the
higher the expectation of the game he plays, the more likely it is
that he will win.

Lalalalalala..... Teo of a kind that'l beat any FH on a Saturday

You didn't ask a question. You made an assertion that is clearly
wrong because no one will be "consistently successful" playing
negative games. I simply pointed out that FACT.

Then you're as dumb as a rock, because I am that successful person.

> ....just the ones who pee their pants at the thought of having to
bet with me, dicky......

Is that why you backed out of the bet??? I can always tell when

I've really gotten to you. You immediately revert back to your 3rd
grade intellect.

I'm still waiting---but trying to bet someone who ties all their
money up in addicted video poker play means a looooong wait along
with numerous escape excuses. Just like you've done over and over
again.

> And I wonder how many times it will take you to see that a future
> make-believe guess on results based on EV and all that other
nonsense is meaningless.

Please tell that to the casinos. They must be worried sick that the
methods they use every day are "meaningless".

All casinos care about is daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and
yearly take. You have no sense for business either.

> The only thing that matters is what happens TODAY

And, the only way to give yourself the advantage in planning for
today is to understand the games you play and the overall

expectation.

More confidence-building I see. You pathological-gambling guys really
need it THAT often?

···

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rgmustain" <rgmustain@a...> wrote:

<<Congo would NEVER bet me on the outcome of a one-time

Love to, thanks. You play one session, playing exclusively negative games.
You must allow a mutually acceptable referee to hold the money and observe
you play. Bring your starting bankroll of $17,200 and another $17,200 to
give to the referee. If you win at least $2500, I'll give you another $2500.
If you lose your whole $17,200 or chicken out before you meet your win goal,
you give me the $17,200.

Oh what's that? You won't take the bet? What a surprise. Where's the two
million you lost to me on the last bet?

<<Until you clear
your head of the baloney you've instilled there, you'll never get up
to my level of understanding.>>

Gotta watch that instilling.
  
Cogno

And, what? I must therefore
> be addicted to movies and waste my time watching them. I mean,

all

> that popcorn is clearly unhealthy. You want me sign up for the

Rob

> Singer movie strategy and save myself now. LMAO.

Here's the RS movie strategy for use anytime you'd like to step up

in

the world: See a REALISTIC movie that doesn't make nerds pee their
pants in excitement every time a goober pushes a button on his

laptop

and creates theoretical scenes only a director could love.

Based on your previous posts I assume this is where Pee Wee Herman
comes into play. You must think his movies were realistic. LMAO again.

> > Like I said, ask Elliott. He's stuck in the same rut you
> > are....probably even more so.
>
> No, he knows exactly what he is doing and, like the rest of us

APs,

> he does it because it is what he WANTS to do. Your idiotic

comments

> have no basis in common sense and are only meant to futher your
> agenda ... promoting your fraudulent system.

Then you don't know him and you don't know others who know him. All
you believe is what you'd like to believe, and only for your own

self-

confidence building.

I've talked with Elliott several times. He's a very sharp and
intelligent AP. Your jealousy is showing.

> No. I've stated this over and over again. You have gained

monetary

> benefit and your primary goal is pumping up your ego. You have

this

> all encompassing desire to viewed as an expert.

Ego comes with being the best

No, it has nothing to do with it. Look it up in a dictionary. A more
admirable trait is self confidence. Self confidence comes with being
knowledgeable about the things you choose to do. Clearly, this is
something that you are severely lacking.

> > Here's a hint: Congo would NEVER bet me on the outcome of a one-
> time session--and neither would you.
>
> Of course not. We understand the math. The odds are you will have
> more small session wins and a few larger losses. That's the way

it

is with ALL Martingale like systems.

Good for you. So now do you also understand that Congo's making
believe he'd like to bet me on this is just another AP fantasy???

I see he just took you up on the bet. He factored in the multiple
progressions into the bet. Are you going start weaseling now or throw
out more monkey boy rhetoric before changing the subject.

> > You both aren't very bright when it
> > comes to video poker strategy, but you both know I have a much
> better chance of winning it than losing it. All this talk of a

bet

is for up-front feel-good positioning only, but when the rubber

hits

the road you'll both be long gone. Typical hypocritical BS from my
critics.

> You still haven't taken him up on his bet. That's when "the

rubber

> hits the road".

You don't get it yet.

I get it. You've now removed all reference to the proof that your
mythical math guys exist from this thread. It appears you've been
caught running from yet another bet. Proving, once again, that you
are a liar.

>Your use of the aces_hii id is even more verification.

You're getting nervous again so you bring the same old news up.

Old, new, doesn't matter. It still shows you are a liar.

> No, you're doing what you do best--assuming the giant wins are
> > > > meaningless. You're stuck, so you resort back to the escape
> > clause you always do--negative means loss and positive means

win.

> > >
> > > Nope. Those "giant" wins are already accounted for in the

games

> > > negative expectation. You'll need to come up with something
that is NOT accounted for in the games' expectation. PS. There

aren't

any.

There's your faulty long-term explanation leaking out again!

One more content free response from the master of content free
responses.

> Wrong moron. All sessions are the sum of the individual hands
played in that session. You can choose whatever you want to define

a

session

Good for you again. A single session for me is one in which I win a
minimum of $2500 and quit. The # of hands you're so interested in

has

no bearing.

So, now you're claiming you win win every time? It must be because
you just called it a "single session". So, once again, you resort to
obvious lies to hide your scam.

> and all I need to do is show that THAT session is made up of N
> individual hands. If these hands are played on negative

expectation

> games then your session will have a negative expectation.

Yeah right. +$2500 certainly is NEGATIVE, Dopey.

Anyone can win at almost any game. Lotteries are the best example of
that. It still doesn't change the future expectation. It is and
always will be that you will lose at negative games.

Only a mystified
geek like you would ever worry about EV BEFORE the session is
completed.

Only a scammer, promoting a fraudulent system would NOT worry about
the EV if they want to maximize their chances at winning. But then,
we already knew that.

> > Very typical of you again to leave out the $40,000/$50,000 or
> higher
> > wins--which I have hit over the years.
>
> So what, we've had our share of relatively big wins. It means
nothing because the ONLY thing that matters in the future is what

is

your expectation.

Good again, Einstein! Now we're talking on the same frequency. I
expect TO WIN and win often, and continue to win. You're making

this

easy....like pie in the sky!

OK then, why didn't take up Cogno on his bet? The only logical answer
is that you are AFRAID you will lose. Of course, this means your last
statement is simply another lie. Not so easy when the facts say the
exact opposite of your lieing words.

> > In your long-term theory, not short-term.

> Nope, in my single hand analysis. Short term, long term, doesn't
> matter. They are both just extrapolation of individual hands.

Here's more help for the helpless. Last fall on the $25 DDB game (2
separate sessions at Venetian) I EXPECTED to see several hands with

2-

pr.--one pair of which was 2's, 3's, or 4's. I also expected to

have

to break the 2-pr. in order to have any chance at winning the
sessions. Several times I was disappointed, but on the last hand of
both sessions the quads appeared--and both with a kicker. Just as I
EXPECTED. Kind of blows your Expected Value theory right out of the
water, hey?? Gee, ninety $25 credits sure would have been a TON
better than 1600!!!! I sure wish none of my plays were special
ones!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the typical RS approach. Recall one or two examples of where
he won and conveniently ignore all the times he's lost. I can hear
the same BS on flights leaving LV. Miraculously, it's filled with all
kinds of winning stories and almost no losing stories. I wonder how
the casinos ever survive.

>No one
> cares what you or I have done in the past, they only care about
what approach gives them the best chance in the future.

then they should come to me and get a lesson in how to win.

This is called promoting a scam.

Ask them
if they would rather make the 'safe' play--and oh yes, $2250 in
phantom bucks--or go home with $40,000 in cash?? Let me laugh at

you

now, I just can't hold it in any longer....HAHAHAHAHA!

Or .... go home minus $57,500 in cash. "HAHAHAHAHA" For every one of
your ridiculous assertions there are just as many valid ones that I
can provide. And, in my case, I have 100% provable mathematical
evidence to support my case.

> No one cares.

You as a nerdy analyst who lives by theory alone don't, but I, as

the

only one who matters when I play, do.

I should hope you care about your own results. Noone else cares. Get
over it.

> > You don't win based on theory, and you
> > don't take phantom bucks to the bank for a deposit. Until you
clear your head of the baloney you've instilled there, you'll never
get up to my level of understanding.
>
> All that baloney won't give anybody any idea on what they can
expect to accomplish in the future. Only you care about the past.

The

rest of us are only interested in the future. If you really

believed

your past results were indicative of future chances you would have
taken Cognos' bet a long time ago.

Yup, I care about the past because I have won so much,

An unproven assertion. No one cares. Get over it.

> > More non-responsive doubletalk. Answer the question.
>
> I did. I thought you believed statistics was all mumbo-jumbo.
> However, if you want to hold a rational discussion about future
> possibilities using statistical analysis, I'd be happy to oblige.

From what I've seen of you here and on Winpoker, you're all talk

with

no substance, and a person of my education wouldn't waste time
talking statistical analyses to a low-class, addicted video poker
playing programmer like you.

Translation: You have no idea how to discuss statistical analysis.

> > That's your main problem--you assume most of what you train
> yourself
> > into believing. He said it numerous time, and I don't waste

time

> > looking things up because of my superior memory.
>
> Let's assume for the moment you have quoted Bob correctly. His
> statement IS based on sound mathematical principles because he is
> ONLY describing future events ("I KNOW I'll win eventually" ). He
is
> using the very same statistical analysis technique I just

mentioned

> to understand the future possibilities. He understands that the
> higher the expectation of the game he plays, the more likely it

is

> that he will win.

Lalalalalala..... Teo of a kind that'l beat any FH on a Saturday

LMAO. Once again you have nothing to refute the facts just presented.

> > And I wonder how many times it will take you to see that a

future

> > make-believe guess on results based on EV and all that other
> nonsense is meaningless.
>
> Please tell that to the casinos. They must be worried sick that

the

> methods they use every day are "meaningless".

All casinos care about is daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and
yearly take. You have no sense for business either.

What an absolutely idiotic remark. It is so stupid that it is almost
inconceivable that an adult could make it. You just stated that a
multi-billion dollar industry does not do future projections and make
business decisions based on these projections. ROTFLMAO.

···

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "aces_hii" <aces_hii@y...> wrote:

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Cogno Scienti"
<cognoscienti@g...> wrote:

<<Congo would NEVER bet me on the outcome of a one-time
>>
Love to, thanks. You play one session, playing exclusively negative

games.

You must allow a mutually acceptable referee to hold the money and

observe

you play. Bring your starting bankroll of $17,200 and another

$17,200 to

give to the referee. If you win at least $2500, I'll give you

another $2500.

If you lose your whole $17,200 or chicken out before you meet your

win goal,

you give me the $17,200.

Oh what's that? You won't take the bet? What a surprise. Where's

the two million you lost to me on the last bet?

Wrong, I'll accept if you're trying to make it a fair bet, and the
amount of the bet has to be $17,200 EACH. Why are you afraid to put
up the same amount, Congo?? We EACH must give the mutually acceptable
referee $17,200 (unless you prefer to make it $57,200 which is no
problem for me). A session for me is $57,200 which is what I'll bring
just so I don't have to go to the bank in the middle of it all, if
necessary. Every time you fools try to bet with me you're always
making it so you have an escape clause built in just so you don't
have to show your cowardly side up front. Accept a fair bet and we're
on. Go ahead. Show me that you don't believe me and think I can
easily lose.

> Here's the RS movie strategy for use anytime you'd like to step

up

in
> the world: See a REALISTIC movie that doesn't make nerds pee

their

> pants in excitement every time a goober pushes a button on his
laptop
> and creates theoretical scenes only a director could love.

Based on your previous posts I assume this is where Pee Wee Herman
comes into play. You must think his movies were realistic. LMAO

again.

Nope, and leave it to a geek not to get it.

> > > Like I said, ask Elliott. He's stuck in the same rut you
> > > are....probably even more so.
> >
> > No, he knows exactly what he is doing and, like the rest of us
APs,
> > he does it because it is what he WANTS to do. Your idiotic
comments
> > have no basis in common sense and are only meant to futher your
> > agenda ... promoting your fraudulent system.
>
> Then you don't know him and you don't know others who know him.

All

> you believe is what you'd like to believe, and only for your own
self-
> confidence building.

I've talked with Elliott several times. He's a very sharp and
intelligent AP. Your jealousy is showing.

So have I, and I agree he's intelligent and believes in how he plays.
Doesn't take away from the fact that you & he are two of a kind
though. "AP's" is the self-confidence building term you people use to
gently describe problem gamblers, and you both know it. To spend as
much time as you do in casinos with your wife, as does he, dictates
that label's accuracy. I just don't know how people can do such
things. I was always taught to stay away from degeneracy in my mature
years, which is one of the main reasons why I spend so little time
inside unhealthy venues such as casinos. Apparently you never got the
message.

> Ego comes with being the best

No, it has nothing to do with it. Look it up in a dictionary. A

more admirable trait is self confidence. Self confidence comes with
being knowledgeable about the things you choose to do. Clearly, this
is something that you are severely lacking.

Yes, ego comes with being the best--which I clearly am. Self-
confidence is a given for someone like me, who doesn't have to fight
off the demons you guys do as you enter through casino doors at an
uncanny pace all the time. When the term self-confidence is used with
AP's, it required in order to keep your sanity about you since you
know what you're doing is wrong and stupid.

I see he just took you up on the bet. He factored in the multiple
progressions into the bet. Are you going start weaseling now or

throw out more monkey boy rhetoric before changing the subject.

He doesn't need you to make his excuses for him, although you're a
master at doing that. I've accepted obviously, but only if we both
put up the same money. I don't give odds--he called me a liar and
now's his time to put up or shut up and look the fool he is. Just
like you, he's wiggled his way out even before he started. I told him
I'm taking the whole session bankroll along, but I'm guessing he'll
pee his pants if he sees that much money at one time.
   

I get it. You've now removed all reference to the proof that your
mythical math guys exist from this thread. It appears you've been
caught running from yet another bet. Proving, once again, that you
are a liar.

When you clarify your bet then I'll accept it. You don't ask for one
thing and when accepted change it to "OH gee Rob, I meant this
instead of that". Do you realize how cowardly THAT makes you look?
   

> >Your use of the aces_hii id is even more verification.
>
> You're getting nervous again so you bring the same old news up.

Old, new, doesn't matter. It still shows you are a liar.

Prove it. C'mon dicky. Show us some of that good old fashioned geek
logic!
    

> There's your faulty long-term explanation leaking out again!

One more content free response from the master of content free
responses.

Since you don't get it, content-free seems to be what makes you
comfortable without constant squirming when facing me. I've allowed
you to save face a number of times in the past few days. Like when I
admonished you for trying to sluff off the family gambling problem
onto your wife. I know that's an uncomfortable subject for you to
take on because just the mere viewing of it here gives you the guilt
of the century. But hey, you made your bed!
  

> Good for you again. A single session for me is one in which I win

a minimum of $2500 and quit. The # of hands you're so interested in

has no bearing.

So, now you're claiming you win win every time? It must be because
you just called it a "single session". So, once again, you resort

to obvious lies to hide your scam.

At an 87% clip, what's the difference when slapping down a nerd like
you. You're so envious of me and my abilities that whether or not i
won every time, you'd be at your max-hate level either way.
  

> Yeah right. +$2500 certainly is NEGATIVE, Dopey.

Anyone can win at almost any game. Lotteries are the best example

of

that. It still doesn't change the future expectation. It is and
always will be that you will lose at negative games.

Leave it to you not to respond to the statement.

> Only a mystified
> geek like you would ever worry about EV BEFORE the session is
> completed.

Only a scammer, promoting a fraudulent system would NOT worry about
the EV if they want to maximize their chances at winning. But then,
we already knew that.

If I didn't maximize my chances of winning, bozo, why would Congo
seek to make a lopsided bet in his favor?? Hello McFly!! That's what
true expectation is.
  

> Good again, Einstein! Now we're talking on the same frequency. I
> expect TO WIN and win often, and continue to win. You're making
this easy....like pie in the sky!

OK then, why didn't take up Cogno on his bet? The only logical

answer

is that you are AFRAID you will lose. Of course, this means your

last

statement is simply another lie. Not so easy when the facts say the
exact opposite of your lieing words.

Read my response to him and then feel stupid you said that.
   

> Here's more help for the helpless. Last fall on the $25 DDB game

(2 separate sessions at Venetian) I EXPECTED to see several hands
with 2pr.--one pair of which was 2's, 3's, or 4's. I also expected to

have to break the 2-pr. in order to have any chance at winning the
> sessions. Several times I was disappointed, but on the last hand

of both sessions the quads appeared--and both with a kicker. Just as
I EXPECTED. Kind of blows your Expected Value theory right out of the

> water, hey?? Gee, ninety $25 credits sure would have been a TON
> better than 1600!!!! I sure wish none of my plays were special
> ones!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the typical RS approach. Recall one or two examples of

where he won and conveniently ignore all the times he's lost.

That's jealousy talking again, and it's all over you this time. Read
the part above where it says "several times I was disappointed". And
most of the 'other times' I've been disappointed it's been on much
lower denomination machines. So guess what that means, noodle brain..

I can hear the same BS on flights leaving LV. Miraculously, it's
filled with all kinds of winning stories and almost no losing
stories. I wonder how the casinos ever survive.

More jealousy, because you crave to have me lose. Sorry to
dissappoint you again, but look at the results on my site and you'll
be crying in your beer. I'm sorry, geeks don't drink beer. Cranberry
juice. Oh, and I don't ever fly to LV. I can't stand all the losers
on those flights.

> Ask them
> if they would rather make the 'safe' play--and oh yes, $2250 in
> phantom bucks--or go home with $40,000 in cash?? Let me laugh at
you now, I just can't hold it in any longer....HAHAHAHAHA!

Or .... go home minus $57,500 in cash. "HAHAHAHAHA" For every one

of your ridiculous assertions there are just as many valid ones that
I can provide. And, in my case, I have 100% provable mathematical

evidence to support my case.

And I have 100% mathematical evidence to support the numbers on my
site. The big difference? My assertions are real....based on actuals.
yours are a combination of dumb theories of why I should't have won.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Guess who wins?
   

> You as a nerdy analyst who lives by theory alone don't, but I, as
the
> only one who matters when I play, do.

I should hope you care about your own results. Noone else cares.

Get over it.

I'd say you're the one in need of getting over it.

> Yup, I care about the past because I have won so much,

An unproven assertion. No one cares. Get over it.

Still caring about my wins??

> > > More non-responsive doubletalk. Answer the question.
> >
> > I did. I thought you believed statistics was all mumbo-jumbo.
> > However, if you want to hold a rational discussion about future
> > possibilities using statistical analysis, I'd be happy to

oblige.

>
> From what I've seen of you here and on Winpoker, you're all talk
with
> no substance, and a person of my education wouldn't waste time
> talking statistical analyses to a low-class, addicted video poker
> playing programmer like you.

Translation: You have no idea how to discuss statistical analysis.

I kinda think it says you're not as educated as I am, programmers at
the companies I worked for were a dime-a-dozen who performed a
service at a much lower rate than the engineers as they helped build
what I designed, and as such, you're hardly in the same class as I
am. Plus, I don't really like talking to addicts who claim to love
the game of video poker. I get a lot more from those who've admitted
to me that they've had a long-time gambling problem and want to learn
a better, less addicitve way to play the game. That leaves you OUT!

> > Let's assume for the moment you have quoted Bob correctly. His
> > statement IS based on sound mathematical principles because he

is

> > ONLY describing future events ("I KNOW I'll win eventually" ).

He

> is
> > using the very same statistical analysis technique I just
mentioned
> > to understand the future possibilities. He understands that the
> > higher the expectation of the game he plays, the more likely it
is
> > that he will win.
>
> Lalalalalala..... Two of a kind that'll beat any FH on a Saturday

LMAO. Once again you have nothing to refute the facts just

presented.

What 'facts'? You just made yourself feel good with another dumb
theory that's supposed to bring in the phantom bucks.
  

> All casinos care about is daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and
> yearly take. You have no sense for business either.

What an absolutely idiotic remark. It is so stupid that it is

almost inconceivable that an adult could make it. You just stated
that a multi-billion dollar industry does not do future projections
and make business decisions based on these projections. ROTFLMAO.

Deciphering that you have no business sense is absolutely easy to do.
Just look at the incredulous remarks you make and then think about it
for a bit. Future projections? Five year plans?? Nothing but guesses--
just like live poker players who try to win make. And here's another
hint for the inexperienced. Business decisions aren't made on
projections UNLESS the cash is coming in NOW. How stupid can you be?
The USA doesn't run businesses on theory, and thank God few if any
CEO's are addicted to video poker as badly as you are. We'd all be
speaking Pakistani!

···

--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rgmustain" <rgmustain@a...> wrote:

<<Wrong, I'll accept if you're trying to make it a fair bet, and the
amount of the bet has to be $17,200 EACH. Why are you afraid to put
up the same amount, Congo?? We EACH must give the mutually acceptable
referee $17,200 (unless you prefer to make it $57,200 which is no
problem for me). A session for me is $57,200 which is what I'll bring
just so I don't have to go to the bank in the middle of it all, if
necessary.>>

I'll put up whatever you set your win goal at. If you want me to put up the
same as you, set your win goal to the same as your loss goal. But since you
claim to be able to win a session "almost at will," you shouldn't begrudge
the seven-to-one odds. I claim you can't beat the math, and if you chicken
out of this bet you will have conceded the point.

Cogno