Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
It seemed as if he had more knowledge than someone who hadn't played it, at minimum, it seemed he at least he was shown by someone who had. Of course, I could come up with some explanations of how this could be and yet he never played it.
Rob could have read the story when it first came out. He could have since bought a machine that had the bug. He could have experimented using the information online. He could have gone out and looked for this situation in a casino and even found it on a small scale.
This is interesting, because I said the same thing, and was jumped all over. Two possibilities I came up with were that someone told him the information after the fact and that after the story broke he went out and found a machine and discovered the correct sequence for himself. I even raised that same possibility that he may have played small scale, making some money after doing so.

Your 3rd scenario, that he purchased a machine after the story broke and discovered the bug that way, actually had not occurred to me. So that is yet another possible way. But I was just suggesting possible ways that he could now know about the play (and correct sequence) without having played it and people jumped all over me.