Kirkus wasn't just giving money away. In my original post I said that I thought he was smarter than what I saw, meaning that I thought he would make better games.
That doesn't mean that he, Tedder, and Terry were just giving money away. They won some big sets also. Most of the games they played were stone cold gambling. I hear people on hear talk about he's got gamble, he's got heart, etc... Well, if that's the criteria then Kirkus definitely displayed that by not getting lock games and being nitty.
I could never win this award because I don't have the gamble that it takes. That doesn't mean that I won't send 10K or more in, but I have to feel that I have way the best of it. Call it nittiness, lock artist, etc... It's why I get the cheese more often than not. Anyway, I'm still sticking by my original vote.