bishman wrote:
I do believe casinos and any electronic gambling game is rigged, and I guess they have to be, but it just depends on your interpretation of the word I guess. As far as I know, when you click spin a number is chosen from the RNG and that number is then used to lookup a win/loss in a table of pre-determined results. That means that there are some combinations of reels that cannot appear on the screen, because only a finite amount of combinations are held in the table. To me, that is the same as being rigged. And when you play roulette, it is not picking one number, but 5 or 6 and then deciding which one to use depending on the outcome of the RNG, and that is not how ‘real’ roulette works, so again to me that seems rigged.
And I do believe that there is a way that a casino could give a streamer an unfair advantage if they wanted to. Nothing is impossible.
You aren’t correct on your explanation of how a slot works. Typically, slots have their reels defined (big long reel strips with all the symbols defined). The RNG will then be asked to return X numbers, where X is the number of reels. This will be the reel stop positions. The stop positions, and the symbols on the reels in those positions are what determine the result. So any result is possible.
For roulette, the RNG just returns one number. No reason it would work any other way :-/
As to the rest of the thread:
Feel free to ask me anything you like. I worked in the industry for 10 years running a gaming platform (I don’t anymore). We built the game logic and integrated with Casino’s and game providers provided math models and graphics and integrated their games to our platform. So I know the whole thing end to end. Will happily answer any questions.
The other thing i’d ask is, what would you accept as proof? While I do believe you should be the one offering evidence to substantiate your claim, i’ll happily offer proof if it’s within my power to do so. The main issue is I don’t believe there is any proof to offer. Short of you going around every Casino and gaming provider in the industry and asking them to walk you step by step through their code and their deployment processes, ensuring that the code you viewed is in fact the code that is live and in use, I don’t see how you could be convinced that it’s all legit.
My main argument is one of logistics. Like any conspiracy, how easy is it to pull off (and how worth while)? Do you honestly believe 1000’s of disparate gambling companies under multiple regulations in multiple countries covered by different laws, with tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of current and ex employees could really keep a secret like ‘slots are rigged’? And beyond that, why WOULD they rig them? The maths models of slots are always in the house favour (just like roulette and table games), so over time, the house ALWAYS wins. Why cheat? They know they’re going to win legally.
