The following is a true story. It is a story about how I blew a Unicorn opportunity. Around 2004 (IIRC), there was an online casino called CasinoSilver.com. It was a Parlay Entertainment site. What lured me there was that they had the 104% deuces wild that paid 5 coins for one coin bet not only for the 4K but for the FH too. They thought the bastardization of the 5K,WRF and SF was enough to do the RTP in, but it wasn't. But here was the thing - Parlay Entertainment software has a gaff setting, random (fair) setting, and a demo (for fun - no wagering and no login required) setting based on my exploitation of bingo sites that had this software back then (you got bingo sized bonuses up to 500% and video poker was considered a "side game" that counted towards wagering requirements which were 10x or less back then). The plan was to wager some hands at low levels to determine if it was the fair setting and then do the necessary 4% grindfest if it was the fair setting. It was pretty easy to tell if it was on the gaffed setting - nothing would get through. It has been too many years to quantify it - but you know what I mean hopefully.
So I start playing some small wagers (5x5c or 25 cents IIRC) and I am getting dealt ducks left and right. And it was raining 4Ks,5Ks,and WRFs on the draws - along with 4 ducks more often than it should also (I can't remember exactly so I am not going try and quantify it - but it was amazing). I cautiously step up my bet sizes and the ridiculous avalanche of duck showers continue. I'm up to about $1000 in no time starting from a $50 bank roll. What's more, you could go up to 5x$100 which I was too scared to wager at (I toggled it up that high but never placed a wager). Well I didn't want to torch it, plus I wanted to test the withdrawal from this possibly rogue casino, so I withdrew around $1500 IIRC to my Neteller account. Well they processed my withdrawal over the next few days.
Obviously then, it was time to get down to business - so I typed in the casinosilver.com URL into my Netscape browser or whatever the fuck I was using at the time, and low and behold, the site was down and never came up again. LMFAO.
So what happened ? Let's break it down:
1. The fuck-up admin who set up the site obviously put the wagering Parlay software in demo mode which played at some ridiculous astronomical +EV RTP. I should have known this anyway since you could toggle up to $500 per spin which you would never be able to do with the proper implementation of the software in real/wagering mode.
2. Other people, who weren't as dumb as me, almost certainly torched the site and that was that (they probably made millions or weren't paid out, or were paid out some fraction of what they actually won). I should have torched it of course - who the fuck cares if they lose their $50 deposit; well me I guess, LOL.
Don't blow your once in a lifetime opportunity, like I did.
That is the first and possibly last post in this thread - successful Unicorn stories, failed Unicorn stories like mine, and totally unrelated posts (except for Monopoly Game piece posts) are most welcome.