Originally Posted by Bob21 View Post

And the even bigger shocker for me is that these two clowns (really just one clown, Kane) came up with this play. If they found it, I’m surprised more people didn’t find it. This is why I think Kane owning one of these machines and having it in his house helped him understand how it worked and led to him finding this play. I’m just speculating here, but I don’t believe it happened like Nestor said in the article. Yeah, right, two bozos just sat in a casino for a couple days pressing diffeeent buttons and happened to come upon it. It’s hard for me to believe it happened that way.
Ignoring the fact that double-up must be turned on for a second, how many people do you think hit a high-paying hand and then immediately put more money in? When I say immediately, I mean before playing another hand, before switching games, before switching denominations...etc. After putting more money in (despite the fact that you just hit a big hand) you then have to switch denominations and go to the same game type which also (from anything I have read) must have the same paytable. At that point, you must hit, "Cash out," despite the fact that you not only just hit a big hand, but also that you added money immediately after doing so without playing any further hands.

I mean, to discover that it is repeatable, you would have to know it exists in the first place. To know it exists in the first place, you would have to, quite by accident, organically do something close to all of the steps listed above. Anyone who has played video poker would know that this is a highly unusual sequence of events.

My guess is Kane (being a hooked player) hit a good hand and added money with the intent to bump up denominations. Even after the good hand, he felt that he didn't have sufficient money on there to play the next denomination, so he added more. At that point, maybe he superstitiously decided to switch machines instead because he saw the good hand on the higher denomination, or maybe after switching, he just decided the machine would go awhile without a good hand happening since he just got one. Maybe he decided to leave. Who knows?

It’s also hard for me to believe Kane was so sutupid to just sit in a casino and win jackpot after jackpot and not think eventually the casinos would know something was fishy. He couldn’t have been that stupid. I think this is Nestor’s version so he could have exaggerated. If the casinos said this is what happened, I would have asked them why they waited so long to do something about it.
Those are pretty much the undisputed facts on this one, so I don't know why those would be called into challenge. It sounds like they interviewed the guy who discovered what Kane was doing.

My other question is why didn’t more people find it? There are a lot of Video Poker players out there. It doesn’t appear too hard to find. Why did it exist for so long without it being exploited by multiple people? Who knows, maybe it was and these people are keeping silent.

Interesting story no matter how you look at it.
My opinion is above. I wouldn't be surprised if more than zero other people also found it and are just not saying anything publicly. It is a really odd sequence of events, though, just to find it once.