This is NOT an honest account of what went down. I have spoken with people like Al Rogers, involved in the case. There was a hearing involving gaming. This is where several gambling expert witnesses testified. The Mindplay side (manufacturer and gambling industry) tried to claim that the purpose of mindplay was to track player bets so they could be comped more accurately. What a fucking joke THAT was. So the eventual ruling was that ok, they could continue to use this technology which would allow them to comp players more accurately (<-), but had to do so on a delay. I Forget if it was 13 rounds, or 15 rounds or 19 rounds, but it was enough of a delay that they couldn't be tracking in real time, so they couldn't immediately shuffle away positive counts, altering the odds.
THAT was the slap on the wrist (not even) that I am referring to when they absolutely knew what they were doing was cheating.
So guess what? after the ruling that they had to implement a delay....enough that by the time they took any action, the shoe would be over, THAT is when they decided they were no longer interested and pulled the plug, releasing that bullshit PR statement about "problems with the technology". Again, funny there were no problems with the technology until Gaming said you can't do that.
The gambling industry is a crooked industry. You see it over and over and over. From something as minor as getting players drunk so they will lose more, to intention cheating when they think they can get away with it. And the referee (gaming) is not a neutral party. It is like the stories of the old south, where someone is arrested by the sheriff on trumped up charges and then goes to trial in from of the judge that happens to be the sheriff's brother-in-law.
What should have been the outcome of the mindplay case would be a major fine to the manufacturer, and possible disqualification from doing business with casinos. The casinos that used the technology should have been identified and fined for cheating, because you can't rob a bank and then claim that you didn't know it was illegal to rob a bank. AND there should have been headlines in the newspapers naming the casinos that cheated, which would have included many of the "big boys" on the Las Vegas strip. That would have been an appropriate penalty and deterrent for cheating in the future.
Instead they got a "aww, come on...stop doing that".
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