just picked one from off the list
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/danieluk9-346324looked at his post, saw a long one, here it is
Former casino slot machine maintenance worker here.
Slot machines are tied into a central computer system that keeps track of the payouts made by the machine, but the actual computation of the payouts is done by the machine itself. The slot machine vendors produce software that has variables that can be changed by the casino to determine what % of the incoming money is given back to the players. This can vary between 80% and 97%, typically. That amount is the average over so many plays, so it is possible for a casino to get a new machine and then go into the hole for thousands of dollars through a few lucky rolls.
Looking at this story I think there are three possibilities:
a) The slot machine in question cannot possibly pay out with $8M. I worked on a nickel machine that erroneously offered a $15M payout, as well as another nickel slot that indicated that $0.11 had been paid. These were examples of math errors for extremely rare situations that the programmers hadn't tested.
b) The machine stopped communicating with the central system, but kept running, which indicates a more serious software bug as communication with the casino's computers is generally hard coded as a requirement to function.
c) The casino has not yet reached a profit margin for the machine to see the $8M payout as a sustainable loss and is claiming error to get out of paying. The company that produced the machine will investigate it and can blacklist the casino if it turns out the machine was operating properly, as failures of THIS magnitude look poorly upon the manufacturer to other casinos.
At the end of the day, modern slot machines are actually just glorified video games with security up the ass to cover various peoples' butts.
I saw his other posts so i thought to myself that maybe its copy and paste, search for the text on google, find this
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3rtcd8/woman_hits_8m_jackpot_casino_claims_machine/Former casino slot machine maintenance worker here.
Slot machines are tied into a central computer system that keeps track of the payouts made by the machine, but the actual computation of the payouts is done by the machine itself. The slot machine vendors produce software that has variables that can be changed by the casino to determine what % of the incoming money is given back to the players. This can vary between 80% and 97%, typically. That amount is the average over so many plays, so it is possible for a casino to get a new machine and then go into the hole for thousands of dollars through a few lucky rolls.
Looking at this story I think there are three possibilities:
a) The slot machine in question cannot possibly pay out with $8M. I worked on a nickel machine that erroneously offered a $15M payout, as well as another nickel slot that indicated that $0.11 had been paid. These were examples of math errors for extremely rare situations that the programmers hadn't tested.
b) The machine stopped communicating with the central system, but kept running, which indicates a more serious software bug as communication with the casino's computers is generally hard coded as a requirement to function.
c) The casino has not yet reached a profit margin for the machine to see the $8M payout as a sustainable loss and is claiming error to get out of paying. The company that produced the machine will investigate it and can blacklist the casino if it turns out the machine was operating properly, as failures of THIS magnitude look poorly upon the manufacturer to other casinos.
At the end of the day, modern slot machines are actually just glorified video games with security up the ass to cover various peoples' butts.
lol its copy and paste, mods should ban this person indefinitely