Hello LVA

I bumped into Anthony Curtis over at Huntington Press yesterday and realized I hadn't yet joined the LVA forum. I'm not sure how much overlap there is between vpFREE, videopoker.com and this forum, but I guess if I'm in for a penny I should be in for a pound.

For those of you unfamiliar with me, I was a manager of a professional progressive video poker team years ago. I wrote a book about it, and I co-host the radio show Gambling with an Edge on KLAV with Bob Dancer.

VP to me is a job. Posting on on-line forums is a hobby. Hay... we all have to do something for fun.

I have no particular agenda on this forum as I'm guessing most of you already know me. I'd just like to help out mingle and meet people. If anyone has a particular question they feel I might be best suited to answer please feel free to email me directly...otherwise I might miss it.

I'd like to make this my just for fun forum and keep it light.

Look forward to talking to all of you!

~Frank Kneeland (~FK)

Welcome Frank.

It's good to see you join this forum. I like to think of this forum as where the more seasoned gamblers/players chat. Not as many beginners here as you'll find at videopoker.com.

Your insights from being a seasoned progressive professional will be very interesting here. Look forward to some good threads and posts from you.


-Mule

I wondered why I only saw you posting on vp.com and not here...

Welcome :D

Welcome to the Boards! What is your opinion of Rob Singer's system?

Howdy!

Welcome to our humble home away from home !

Hi Everyone!

I am sorta new on the forum too. I've been a LVA member since 06' and use to post but just updated me last name(newlywed) and all my post history disappeared! Anyway I am a fan of vp but a rookie. I won't bug you with ideas or tips just happy to chat with members who all like the same thing..... VEGAS!

Oversight, nothing more. The teams did most of their math and strategy work internally and kept no ties with external public sources of VP info. Those of us "in the know" didn't know what we didn't know. Please feel free to enlighten me to the more public sources of VP info. You might be surprised at my ignorance on the subject.

I've had access to the best info on VP for 23 years and little need to outsource anything. It has left me spoiled.

~FK

I'm 2 hours out of boot camp and you are already tossing a live grenade at me. If you're expecting me to jump on it and use my body to shield my fellow soldiers, forget it. I just met you.

Here's my general thoughts on ANY such situation:
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” ~Rene Descartes

If we as people only spend time looking into and researching things with which we agree, it would greatly diminish our opportunities for new insight, and it would almost completely eliminate our ability to reveal areas where our own thinking might be flawed. If you adopt this as a life motto it is not something you can do on the weekend with the TV on and few beers in you. You have to live by it everyday...especially when every fiber of your being is screaming, "ignore this". It is the only way I have found to overcome the inherent cognitive biases we flawed humans seem to come pre-packaged with at the factory.

Therefore, to understand and comment on Rob's system I would have to understand it far better than I currently do. I am actually very motivated to try to understand it better, not because I agree with it, but for the very reason that it contradicts most of what I currently believe.

I have briefly met with Rob, given him a copy of my book, and begun the process of trying to evaluate his system.

There are two possibilities:
1. Rob turns out to be right, which I think would be hilarious and the most notable example of the Semmelweis reflex in society since that poor fellow (Ignaz Semmelweis) tried to convince doctors to wash their hands before delivering babies.

2. Rob turns out to be wrong. Which would raise the questions of how someone like himself came to, and held to such divergent philosophies in the face of so much evidence to the contrary.

Either possibility has an amazing potential for insight into human nature and the opportunity for personal growth.

Currently, I do not agree with what I know of his system (limited knowledge), but it is for exactly that reason that I'm going to give this topic extra effort on my part and try to be as impartial as I'm capable. I'm sending my preconceived ideas on a vacation to Hawaii, if they take up surfing they might not come home.

What do I think my conclusions will be? I'm deliberately trying not to think about it.

Sincerely,

~FK

P.S. Tag you're it.

Frank, you summed it up here quite nicely: "If we as people only spend time looking into and researching things with which we agree, it would greatly diminish our opportunities for new insight, and it would almost completely eliminate our ability to reveal areas where our own thinking might be flawed."