Originally Posted by jdog View Post
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
That joint had the worst maintenace of their bartops I've ever seen anywhere.
And it's still the worst... In fact I don't think their slot attendants do any maintenance besides restarting a machine. If a button needs to be changed they tell you it's their vendor's job but it never gets done. They just limp along until the machine gets replaced by a new one. Never seen any other place operate like that.

So take it you popped a few $1 Royals there?

Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Why would someone that's been showing a consistent profit for 2 and a half decades even think about the machines are gaffed?
You wouldn't because you're now typically taking plays at what... 5 to 10% advantages or more?? You wouldn't even notice if a certain game was gaffed 1-2%
I was just wondering if anyone had known of or had any suspicions outside of the American Coin debacle.
One thing that may assuage your concerns a bit is that the bigger the casino, both in terms of revenue streams and management structure, the less anyone in a position to rig the machines has any incentive to do so.

What I mean is the ACC seemingly derived all its earnings from VP, and was owned and operated by the same guy. (This may be simplified, I couldn't tell from the article.)

So in their case, assuming a simple model of how their split works with the bar owners, taking the royals out of a 2% hold game literally doubles their earnings and doubles the value of the company to the owner.

In Chocktaw the profits are distributed through the whole tribe, and management may not even be tribal, and they have many and more valuable sources of earnings than VP.

Also the higher up you are in the corporate structure the more people you have to bring in to implement a rigging scheme, but the lower down you are the less likely you are to have any incentive at all (for example a slot tech if he could acquire the chip might be able to rig it all on his own, but literally has no incentive to. A slot manager might have a very tenuous incentive - better performance from his department - but can't do it on his own without looking extremely suspicious even if he knows how.)

None of this is to say an Indian casino wouldn't do it or isn't doing it, just that the bigger the casino and the more numerous the equity holder the less it resembles the ACC situation.