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Originally Posted by Like
The fall of David Sklanksy is one of the more interesting and bizarre things to witness in the advantage-gambling world. This man, the author of such legitimately great books like small stakes hold em, that tournament one, and the theory poker, among others, was once considered the end all be all on all things gambling related. Then between his pure oddness on this forum (including actually being banned at one point I'm quite sure,) the utter nonsense he posts about sports betting, the really REALLY weird rumors with very young girls, plus his inability to construct a coherent sentence and play more than 3 hands of live poker without getting up and wondering around for half an hour, have really cemented his status as kind of sad, cautionary tale. We can just hope his son, Mat, who by all accounts is a sharp and nice fellow, albeit condescending and quite full of himself, doesn't follow the same path. David, your books got me started in the gambling world and you'll probably be remembered fondly as time marches on. But the game has passed you by, sir.
My comments about the touts is correct. You can't hit 53% if you are forced to choose x games from a menu where much fewer than x are off by 2 points or more. When I said God couldn't I meant given he only use his handicapping talents rather than his ability to see the future. But I never said that handicappers can't beat sports if they are not under the tout's constraints.
More importantly there has never been any really young girls remotely in my life. There have been a few in their early 20's during a short period in my life. And twelve years ago there was a girl who called herself "Saura" who fooled everyone into thinking she was twenty who was actually a sixteen year old runaway. I am not claiming it was OK for me to live with a twenty year old but that's a far cry from those rumors you mention.
Notably several years after she was brought back to Arizona, she AND her mother moved back to Las Vegas and took care of my mother the last years of her life. (Both my parents spent a lot of time with Saura on their visits from
NJ during the time we were together.)
And if you don't believe me, believe her. Well before she moved back to Vegas she started a very lengthy thread where she answered every question about our time together. I may not have come off looking that good in that thread but again it is a far cry from that rumor that has not one scintilla of truth to it.
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