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Why Should Players Embrace My Methods Of Approaching Video Poker?

Well, there are numerous reasons why – along with both silent and very vocal testimony to support those reasons. But for starters, go ahead and check my cumulative playing record since I started playing the game full-time in 1999, by clicking on it from my home page. I believe I’m the only one in the gaming industry that does this. It’s right there in plain sight for believers, envious critics, Internet surfers, and the IRS to see. To me, being a public figure means you should have nothing to hide from the get go, and that’s exactly how I’ve presented myself all along. And as you’ll see further down in this section, there are so many players who are both addicted to gambling and who lose an inconceivable amount of money that when the most tainted of them read about my success, they are driven to search the web for anything and everything from my past that to them might hurt my credibility today. I do, however, understand how it makes them feel to be able to finally come up with something negative about me, but they missed the boat. I’ve already revealed everything 8 or 9 years ago. No, I do not have a perfect past, and yes, I’ll once again explain (as I have here and on several forums since 1999) when, where & how the glitches occurred – even though it all is dated prior to the development and implementation of the original Singer Play Strategy.

Once you understand that I’ve never sold an ounce of strategy and that neither of my books are strategy-based, you’ll understand that I have never tried to take other people’s money by scamming them with anecdotes and mystery. It’s all written in very comprehensive English that anyone can view FOR FREE by clicking on Rob’s Strategies on my home page. And the bottom line is because I’ve won exactly as I say I have, I have never needed to profit from others people’s misery of losing. I will now categorize the reasons why any serious player would want to follow what I’ve been saying for nearly 10 years now – as many players have in the past decade. The most intriguing part? Most of these players were former Advantage Players (AP’s) who just couldn’t find the handle to winning like all the gurus, math experts and famous names say is out there. I was once a very proud AP from 1990-1996. Thank God those days are gone.

1) I Tell The Truth About The Game Like Nobody Ever Has.
I know how compulsive and habit-forming the game of video poker can be. It can reach out and grab a hold of you when you’re in your happiest, winning moments – and it can just as quickly and mercilessly slam your face into the mud. I know what it’s like to be an addicted loser who just can’t stop playing when ahead, and thankfully when I developed my new strategy I taught myself that setting goals and stopping when they’re reached is the ONLY way to have any chance at all of being a consistent winner.

2) I’ve Learned To Control The Machines Rather Than Continue To Have Them Control Me.
VP machines are nothing but computers, but they are powerful compared to error-prone humans. When we’re away from them it’s a game that we play to try to win money from. When we’re playing them it turns into gambling first and then a game. To further complicate matters, marketing execs and slot clubs everywhere have us all figured out to a tee. Simply throw out a promotion of any kind and we will come. Well, make that everyone but me. I’ll say this once, and please heed the word: Promotions and giveaways are only there to get players to come in and gamble much more than they otherwise would. Casinos make far more profits during these “specials” than they do on off days, and they specifically target those who call themselves “Advantage Players” because they know those are the players that are the easiest to rope in, and they will usually lose much more than they normally would by chasing the freebie. I’ve eliminated that temptation from my game. The result? I now control what I do, where I do it, when I do it, how I do it, and why I do it. The last thing you want is to do exactly as the casino wants you to do. They desperately WANT you to come in for a promotion. And every loser does just that.

3) Long-Term Strategy Is Misleading, Misunderstood, And Dangerous.
This is really the basis of my first book. I’m very well educated in math, I have an exceptional aptitude with numbers, I studied and practiced the art of playing vp mathematically perfect as much as anyone else ever has, and just like many folks out there, I believe I’m the God of Comps. But when I added it all up in mid-1996 I was a loser….to the tune of nearly $250,000 since I started playing in 1990. I never had a winning year – although I could sure manufacture them by inflating the value of all the comps and free stuff I accumulated back then. I’m sure you know what I mean. The math people sold me a bill of goods and I bought it. It never occurred to me that they were taking my and other people’s money just so they could keep gambling money in their own pockets because they were obviously losing too. The two what I consider very dangerous parts I never got drawn into were, first, how their daily play has turned them into extreme addicts with virtually no life outside of video poker; and, I have never made my spouse become the same addict I was just because we lived under the same roof. AMEN!

4) To Date, I Have Not Been Allowed To Teach My Method Of Approaching Video Poker At Any Casino.
We all know of a certain guru or two who get paid to speak at and/or teach in casinos in order to spread the word of optimal-play far and wide. They show people how to do it and they accept payment for their efforts. That, I have no problem with because it is part of their making a living. However, I have gone to the management of six Las Vegas casinos where these classes have been held over the years, and in each and every case my offer to teach players my strategy FOR FREE has been categorically denied. Their reason? Because they do not want their customers coming in and playing hit-&-run video poker. The rest you can figure out for yourself.

5) Gaming Resume’.
Both my book publisher – Gambler’s Bookshop in Las Vegas – and the paper (Gaming Today) for whom I’ve written a weekly video poker column (Undeniable Truth) for nearly 7 years straight, have been in the gaming business over 70 years combined and being the most respected and tenured names in the business, they employ some of the savviest people in the industry. They obviously have to. I’ve written columns for the old Double Down magazine, I’ve been on numerous TV and radio programs, and while every one of my critics said I’d be gone in sixty seconds the day after my book came out, to their dismay today I’m stronger than ever.

6) Unlike The Others, I Do Not Sell A Plethora Of
Products & Services.
What does it mean to you if a person who claims they’re a winning professional vp player wants to sell you a set of silly strategy cards, some videos, their services, and a video poker software program to practice on? Now ask yourself what it means for another personality such as myself to have turned down an offer to put my name on one of the vp programs on the market, and to chat via e-mail, talk via telephone, and advise in person whenever possible and always FOR FREE. Who do you think’s winning and who’s not? What does that mean to you?

7) The Math Experts Use Only The Math; I Use A Combination Of The Math, Discipline And Simple
Common Sense.
Playing video poker is not rocket science, and it certainly isn’t something that’s ever gonna unfold just as you’ve been told in a classroom session. While it should be exceedingly obvious to everyone that any mathematical edge is always with the casinos, optimal-play strategists simply can’t grasp that fact. My strategies were built on having a keen understanding of this, and changes that have been made significantly boost the opportunity for those who play in the short-term (which is everyone who plays the game).

8) No One Has EVER Followed Through On A Bet Or Challenge With Me.
I’ve had critics from all walks offer to bet me then scram when I accepted, make fraudulent public claims about me followed by my challenge to support the assertions – only to see the big mouth disappear when I put up the money, and there’s even been instances when I offered to bet someone that I could beat them at their own game they claim to be a professional gambler at – only to see them talk a big game then disappear when it came time to put up the money. If it were you and you saw as many of these “experts” walk away from a bet with you, wouldn’t that be a testimony to the respect…and fear…they have of you? Let’s look at some of them now:

A) In 2002 Bob Dancer contacted me and offered a $20,000 bet that I would not win anything that year, and he laid out the parameters of the bet that were fine. I accepted only if he upped the bet to $57,200 – which was the amount he said I would lose in a session playing my strategy. He walked away.

B) LV Advisor sportsbetting personality Fezzik (& his pal Hizzle) announced over the airwaves on the Stardust Line and the Larry Grossman Show in 2005 that I was a liar and a fraud, and that there was no way I could have ever won $640,000 (up to that point – it now stands at $793k) playing my strategy. I publicly challenged him in a Gaming Today front page article that I could absolutely prove I won every penny of that, and would provide complete access to all my financial records, tax returns & audits, casino contemporaneous gaming records, bank withdrawals to gamble with and bank deposits that were usually more than the withdrawals right after I finished playing my sessions, computer password access with me along with visits to banks, etc. if he didn’t trust paper, conference calls to the IRS for verification purposes, and all records would meticulously tie into each other by date and amounts identified. And if he or his verifier had any question whatsoever as to the validity of the documentation I would hire and pay for a Nevada court appointed arbitrator, who’s decision would be final and binding. I then put up the bet amount ($640k) on escrow at a local LV casino that I identified at the time and waited patiently for Fezzik’s. He walked away.

C) That same year Dick Mustain (a.k.a. shadowman on videopoker.com; mroejacks on vpFREE; arcimedes on LVA Sports; and others as other forums pop up)– an Internet troll who hates and argues with any and every self-proclaimed successful video poker player he can find, probably because of his own failures – also labeled me a liar and a fraud on several forums. He was offered the same challenge I gave to Fezzik as a chance to back up his words. The result? After making up the usual silly stories that those who cannot afford such a bet always do – in this case he said I could have gotten the money from several “robberies” he ran with his tail tucked firmly between his legs.

D) Dick Mustain, still reeling from being humiliated earlier, this time tried to bet me that he could beat me in a game of tennis and also in a game of bowling. We set the bet at $20,000 per event. Then he told me he was actually some sort of professional bowler at one time or another, in an obvious attempt at getting me to cancel the bet. I didn’t, and he walked away – again in shame.

E) Once again Fezzik started his rampage against me about my play strategy, so I offered a bet of $800,000 that I could win one session playing in front of him. Knowing he knew better than to bet me where I had a true and huge advantage, it was odd to see him ACCEPT it. But then came the expected. He added several stipulations that I surprisingly (to him) agreed to. But when I added in only one condition of the bet – that after I win the session he announce over the airwaves that my strategy indeed is a winner – he found his escape route and vanished.

F) A poster on Fezziksplace named Meldrone – an extremist liberal from the Bay Area with a propensity to use vulgarity when upset and who is a big time Rob Singer and GWB hater – said he did not believe my work history throughout my career. When I offered up a $25,000 bet that I could show him documentation proving what I had said I did, he faded back into a world only he knows and loves.

G) Back comes my friend Dick Mustain, claiming I could never produce proof I’ve been all around the world many times. I offered a $5000 bet that I could provide documentation and we’d do it on a local LV radio show hosted by a friend of mine. Once again, he slipped out the back door just before showtime.

H) One of the corniest posters from Fezziksplace, Dreamer, claimed I didn’t know what I was talking about when I said playing live poker requires much more luck than skill in order to win. He also claimed to be a brute at the game and a huge winner. So I offered to play him a cash game for $25,000, and he hit the road faster than a Brit going to the local Pub after work.

I) In early 2007 here comes Fezzik again, blasting me and my video poker strategy and record once again. So this time rather than offering a very large proof-of-winning bet that he apparently could never meet, I decided to try to get him to bet me at his own game: sports betting. Although it probably wasn’t a great idea since he’s been capping the NFL for years while I had only one go at it (a successful one at 57% in 2006) I figured if I could beat him then it would finally shut him up. I offered a straight $250,000 bet on five games per week from Hilton lines for the entire season - winner take all. I suggested a method of escrow (allow Gaming today to hold the cash, and I would pay them $10,000 to do so) and told him if he didn’t like that then to offer something was more comfortable with. But we never got that far, because I conditioned the bet with both of us having to prove we got the money from our own accounts instead from a team of backers (simple to me since all I had to do was go online and show him a withdrawal from a long-time funded account). He protested, and now I believe I know why. Professional gamblers come in several different forms. He may well be one who bets mostly with other people’s money, running a very well organized network in doing so. Either way the bet would have been an interesting one, but it saw the same fate as they all seem to.

J) A Singer-hater named Baker from Fezziksplace talked a big game about knowing a number of big name poker players in LV, and he invited me to play one of them in a $100,000 cash game. He also said he’d throw in a $10,000 bonus if I could beat his guy. When I said let’s do it and I’d be right in town for the game, he comes on and says to forget about it for now because “everybody’s going to Palm Springs”. I had no problem with that because it’s the same distance from Phoenix that LV is, but it was clear Baker not only was a pretender….but he absolutely feared me. More on this later.

K) And finally (I know, it’s almost unbelievable isn’t it….) another fabulous personality and Singer-hater from the same forum named DrunkenHorseplayer told me he’d meet me in the sports book at the Stratosphere for a $250,000 bet that my strategy didn’t work with him there. But whenever I asked him if he was going to bring cash and if he expected me to also, he continuously dodged the question. Nevertheless I showed up - and he was nowhere to be found. Is anyone surprised?

9) My Critics Do Not Like Me Because Of My Views And Consistently Winning Record Vs. The VP Machines….And Some Absolutely Hate Me.
A testimony to one’s success always lies within the hands of others. I am regularly bashed on forums across the Internet, yet thousands of people listen to me, and whenever the controversy comes up I see a spike in book orders. That means even the critics are always thinking. But the ultimate testimony is from those who hate me the most, and whenever one comes along – which happens every 2 years or so – they get embarrassed by me usually for backing away from a bet – and then they start searching public records with my real name (which has been told and known since I came onto the scene) for anything that might be considered negative from my past. There have been others over the years, but in the latest case Baker – who apparently was humiliated by me over the no show poker bet – dug up the same old stuff others have on other forums and that I’ve already disclosed here when I had a chat room at this site’s inception. I got involved in a sour financial deal in 1995 that cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars – most of it borrowed. Refusing to pay from my 401k, several lawsuits followed. In 1996 I filed Chapter 7 and wiped all but $45k of the debt out along with some taxes that still had to be paid, and after 15 months of compromising I signed a judgement accepting it and paying them. I started playing video poker for a living full time in 1999. The two are not at all related, but you can see why a Singer-hater would want to make believe it happened the day before yesterday. Whenever the subject comes up it only fortifies the fact that there are some really sore gambling losers out there, and they just cannot stomach someone who tells them they win. I know exactly how this guy and others who personally attack me feel. I use to feel the same way.

10) I Have Been Banned From Various Video Poker and
Other Forums.
Why? Because those who start up such sites usually are always from the “advantage play” crowd, and they do so in order to hear many others chime in just to build their confidence when things aren’t going so good at the machines, as well as to create justification for playing far more than they know they should. Then I come along and talk a whole lot of common sense while ripping all their theories and BS to pieces – so they ban me. In video poker, it is truly the badge of honor.

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