Originally Posted by Bob21 View Post
Originally Posted by AndrewG View Post
Mr Bob21 this story is Hollywood material. Did you read the Wired article? This is so much more. This five years of beating IGT and multiple casinos and avoiding detection unlike Kane and Nestor. This is selling book and movie rights for millions and millions more than the $2.8-million.

And this isn't an MIT team story -- this is one SUPER GOD player who destroyed Vegas.

Mr Singer should be running to agents in Beverly Hills instead of taking a road trip to the Dakotas.

Who is the loser here?
Yes, I did read the Wire article very extensively. I struggled with Rob’s story, mostly because it lined up to perfectly with the article. What do I mean by that? Rob said he discovered the bug almost the year IGT mistakenly put it in the machine through a software “upgrade”. This was all in the article.

Rob said he had been looking for a “bug or something like a bug”. Well the 20 years before this upgrade, this game had no “bugs” or things that looked like bugs in it. After a while wouldn’t you think someone would quit looking for a bug. What’s the odds of looking for “bugs” the year one gets put in a machine? And discovered by a real life “bug” hunter.

After I read the wired story, it sounded like about the only way someone would find this bug is if you’re half drunk just randomly pushing buttons, after you win. Kind of like what Kane and Nester did. Even the IGT tech guy who was very experienced and watched the video of how these two happened on the bug, couldn’t reproduce it, until he brought the game back to the shop.

Also, this bug could easily be exploited without having to win hand jackpots, so I thought $2.8 MM wasn’t very much in a six year period. I mean these machines were everywhere. A smart person should have been able to extract at least that amount in a year.

Now I get you shouldn’t pull a Kane and Nester and tell everybody in three state surrounding yours about it, and then bring your family, and six of their closest friends with you to a casino and try to take a half million in a day. That probably isn’t going to work. Lol

Anyway, it was a very interesting story. And if Rob did it or not, it really doesn’t impact me, but it does make for an interesting forum.
The machines came out in 2002. I found it in 2004. There goes that theory.

Everybody claims they'd have won a bunch more than I did. Easy to say looking back when you know everything about the whole situation. Try it real time and under the lights, and it's a very different story. Do it dozens of times in the same casino...many times on the same machine, guaranteed some nosey person will catch on. You'd be in jail if it were you playing that way.