Bob Dancer
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Bob Dancer | |
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| Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse | Shirley Dancer (div. 2013) |
| Website | bobdancer |
Bob Dancer (born 1947) is an American video poker expert[1] and gambling author best known for his book Million Dollar Video Poker, which recounts six years of video poker experiences. The book details a six-month period, Sept 2000 to March 2001, when Dancer and his wife parlayed a six thousand dollar bankroll into over one million dollars playing video poker. The cover of the book was a photo taken to replicate the $400,000 winning hand that Dancer's wife Shirley hit, the largest of their 6-month winning period.[2]
Biography
[edit]Dancer previously co-authored a weekly column with Jeffrey Compton entitled the Players Edge which listed various promotions at Las Vegas Casinos and was published Fridays in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He also is a contributor to the Las Vegas Advisor and to the monthly magazine Strictly Slots.
In his May 7, 2013 Las Vegas Advisor column,[3] Dancer announced that he and his wife Shirley had divorced.[citation needed]
Bob Dancer has been teaching classes at various casinos in Las Vegas and elsewhere since 1997. Currently he teaches two semesters a year at the South Point in Las Vegas.[citation needed]
Dancer's latest book is Video Poker for the Intelligent Beginner. He has written two novels, Sex, Lies, and Video Poker and More Sex, Lies, and Video Poker. Along with co-author Liam W. Daily, Dancer has published six Winner's Guides for various video poker games. He is the prime video poker expert behind the Video Poker for Winners software.[citation needed]
Currently he writes a weekly online article for the Las Vegas Advisor. More than 400 of Dancer's articles are archived on his site. He also co-hosts, with Richard W. Munchkin, a weekly hourlong radio program called Gambling With An Edge on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. on KLAV 1230 AM in Las Vegas. The shows are streamed live on the radio website and are archived on Dancer's website.[citation needed]
He is an alumnus of the University of California, Los Angeles.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ Forbes–Gambling Gurus Tell How They Win
- ^ "ThePOGG Interviews - Bob Dancer author of Million Dollar Video Poker". Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- ^ There's Something About Mary Archived December 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine