Here's what Mr. Singer has to say. He said I could post whatever part of it I'd like, so I'll post the whole thing!
What Dancer did is what the local AP's do when they can afford it: They pool together their money and have the best player who can stomach long boring hours at the machines, play for the promotion. Sort of like what Fezzik does as a sports bettor. Their battle cry is always the same BS: Winning or losing doesn't matter if it was a "good play". So he had a supposed 1.6% advantage, and he lost $80,000 in the process? Really, how sick is that?
You saw arcimedes come rushing out to defend Dancer by pretending that there's plenty of Dancer-winning going on behind the scenes that no one hears about, but that's only because he tries to impress while building his own stricken confidence and has little knowledge as to how these people team up to go after these things. Dancer had no problem boasting about how much "he lost" chasing the car, because he wants to appear wealthy to the masses when he's only losing a fraction of his own money--if that. Remember, Dancer still works for Compton, he still teaches for a fee, and he still sells whatever he can peddle for a profit. And he'll be cursed doing this until the day he either dies or falls ill enough to have to quit playing, simply because he's both incredibly addicted to the machines, and they take all of his disposable income each & every year. The guy already looks old and defeated in life, and sitting at the machines building up his video poker butt & gut isn't doing him any favors.
So that's what Singer has to say! I don't know who or what Compton is.
