Posted on 11/07/2009 10:29:30 AM PST by LibWhacker
Seebeck had been playing the Bally Ultimate Party Spin ObamaPelosi slot machine for about a half hour...
The casino explained that the slot machine was functioning normal by making you think you get one thing but absolutely screwing you in the end with nothing. The slot machine was purchased through the Porkulus legislation earlier in the year.
Don't be such a cheapskate. Throw in a drink on the house as well.
Gambling is for losers.
LOL!
LOL! I was wondering what the first post would say, and it was very good.
I would settle for $5 million.
Who did the investigation U.S. Park Police?
Mere coincidence, I am sure, that Obama was speaking at the “Tribal Nations Conference” on Thursday, 11/05/09, right? After all, he is apologizing to one and all about America’s sins so he probably whispered to the attendees; “Go ahead and screw the rest of the country and do it now before I get started on the Slavery Reparations. After that there won’t be ANYTHING left in the till!”
Simple, you program machine to display way high number instead of appropriate win, claim malfunction - casino wins just in case jackpot should come up with sucker player.
I don't usually gamble but I once went into an Indian casino that was built on a highway I sometimes traveled. I'm sure they sometimes had more business but when I went in it was exactly as you say. Two people I saw playing slot machines stuck in my memory: a fairly young man in a wheelchair, perhaps trying to improve his lot in life, and an Indian woman, also not that old, apparently gambling away her share of the proceeds.
It's not about whether or not someone won the "big one", it's about the casino shafting the person who did (or thought he did). Once the other players see a big winner's payout nullified based only on the word of the casino, only the stupidest among them would fail to realize that the same thing could happen to them. But then, maybe most gamblers ARE that stupid.
Spaghetti code strikes again!
1. We can infer from the story that the display was physically capable of displaying that many digits, even though that particular slot was never supposed to register such a large amount.
2. There was a bug in the software that went undetected. Possibly, either a math routine or the display routine got bollixed in the middle of its operation. This could be due to tricky timing interactions between the various parts of the software. These real-time bugs can be so obscure that you need NASA-level (or better!) software review and testing techniques to be reasonably sure you have caught them all. I doubt that the casino software writers were quite that obsessively fastidious.
Actually, the gentleman that was fooled by the “malfunction” was only the last person in the long line of players that fed that machine. Every one of them was playing a defective machine and therefore are entitled to their wagers back. The video record will identify them and their rewards cards will make it that much easier to find them.
fantasize much?
People who play slots and video poker machines are the biggest suckers in the world.
The video poker machines can be set for predetermnined plays for someone to hit.
Anything that can be tampered with is a losing bet. Better off playing the Powerball.
But aren't they supposed to be?
Legally?
No. The place was nearly empty and yet these two sad cases were there as I said. I think my estimation that it wasn't the best place for either of them is accurate.
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