Whatever Happened to the Putative Video Poker Expert Bob Singer?

Thanks for your answer about Bobby Singer and his card-counting system. Wasn't there a Bob Singer who wrote about video poker? If so, whatever happened to him?

That would be "Rob" Singer, obviously a takeoff on Bob Dancer. He was a controversial figure in the '90s and 2000s who wrote about video poker, most notably the book The Undeniable Truth About Video Poker (published circa 2000).

In his day, Rob Singer was well known -- some would say infamous -- as a video poker iconoclast. He espoused a philosophy (we hesitate to call it a strategy) that video poker paytables are largely irrelevant. Instead, his concept involved setting modest session goals for winning and progressing in stakes until that goal was met.

He was relentless in casting aspersions on knowledgeable, respected, math-based gambling professionals in video poker and other betting realms. We remember looking at The Undeniable Truth and thinking, first, everything in it could easily be denied and second, Singer sounded more like a motivational speaker than a gambling expert.

He wrote a second book (circa 2008), Ramblin’ and Gamblin’ Thru Nevada. We never bothered with it, but for this answer, we found one review.

"In places, Ramblin' and Gamblin' Thru Nevada almost works as either a travelogue or an examination of the psychology of video poker players. However, the few instances where something worthwhile shows through are drowned out by a mess of illogic, bad math, and confused themes. This book is better than Singer's first, but that's faint praise. I still can't recommend it to anyone."

What happened to him? Singer's activity in gambling forums and communities declined noticeably around 2010. We heard at the time that he'd been pushed out of the community, having lost all credibility among VP players. We found no reporting, verified or otherwise, that he disappeared mysteriously, had health issues, was involved in legal trouble, or died. It appears that he simply faded away. Since his nom de plume was obviously a sobriquet, it's pretty much impossible to know anything more than that.

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Kevin Lewis Apr-13-2026

The undeniable fraudster

Sometime around 3002, I got tangled up with Singer on an otherwise legitimate message board run by a well-known VP book author, whose name escapes me at the moment. He would constantly flood the forum with his nonsense, deriding concepts like proper strategy, finding good paytables, etc. Basically, he just barfed out the message, over and over, that all you had to do to win was use a Martingale system. I kept calling him out on his crap, and finally he challenged me to meet him in Vegas and prove or disprove his theories, with (supposedly) $10,000 on the line. I had no interest in coming within smelling distance of that charlatan, and told him so, which of course elicited from him the pronouncement that by refusing his challenge, I was acknowledging the undeniable truth of his teachings babble babble babble belch grunt snort.

I know what happened to him. He's in hell, chained to a VP machine, and the Devil will release him when he hits the progressive...but of course, he never will.

black jack Apr-13-2026

3002?

Time travel is cool, but can you get teleported to Waffle House?

O2bnVegas Apr-13-2026

Word of the day

iconoclast

I'd seen it, now I had to look it up.  For which I am grateful!

How timely.  How applicable. 

Candy

Robert Gomora Apr-13-2026

Rob is still kicking.

I have met Rob in the past. I may not have agreed with all his theories. But I found him to be a nice guy and enjoyed talking with him. I found it humorous how riled some people would get with him. I have alway felt, it’s your money gamble it away however you see fit.
Rob is still active in certain gambling forums but you have to know where to look. He gave a copy of Ramblin & Gamblin Thru Nevada. I found it an entertaining read and still have a copy.

Michael Myers Apr-13-2026

Word of the day 2

Candy, I’ll add sobriquet (SOH-brih-kay) as the word of the day. Deke probably used it a hundred times during his writing life.  Me? Never heard of it.

Deke Castleman Apr-13-2026

Mikeee and Candy

"Deke" is a sobriquet.

Michael Hooper Apr-13-2026

Rob Singer

I was friends with Rob. The last time I was with him was the grand reopening of the casino in Lake Las Vegas. He told me he was going to quit VP and watch his Grand kids. Just recently I received a phone call from him. I did not know who it was because He has an area code in S Dakota. I liked the guy

HR Apr-13-2026

Words of the Day

Putative, iconoclast, and sobriquet - all in one day. You should start calling it " word of the day." My phone didn't  even know "sobriquet." It changed it to sobriety.

O2bnVegas Apr-13-2026

And two more!

Sobriquet.  Thanks deke, and thanks Michael for the pronunciation.

And "putative."

I'm breathless with self-refinement!

Candy

steve crouse Apr-13-2026

Schooled

GADS!
I come here for Vegas news and come away a cognoscenti.

Brent Peterson Apr-13-2026

Wizard of Odds Interview

Here's an interview by Michael Shackleford with Rob Singer about an apparent VP glitch that made Singer millions: (I doubt it, by the way)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtZAa6H53zo

Kevin Lewis Apr-13-2026

Steve

As "cognoscenti" is a plural, you are actually a cognoscente.

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