Originally Posted by
Bob21
The thing I’m trying to understand is why do people think it would be hard for someone to know about this play in 2009 (when Kane and Nestor were caught), and the exact sequence of the play today. A lot of people at that time and now knew about this play, including the exact sequence to make it work. Here’s a a quick recap.
- IGT and probably all the other slot manufacturers. Once this bug was caught, I’m sure companies making slots knew about this play and checked to make sure their slots didn’t have a similar bug. This is the type of information that is shared between competitors. It’s in everybody’s interest to make sure there are no bugs in slot machines.
- the casinos that were most impacted. I get that a memo came out immediately telling casinos to disable the double up feuture, but I’m sure several casinos also knew the exact play too.
- the 25 year old USC coder who figured it out and probably all his friends and his friend’s friends knew about it. There is no reason to sign any secrecy agreement once they knew how to activate it because casinos were immediately sent a memo to deactivate the double up feature and an upgrade program was sent out. It wasn’t complicated to stop this play.
- Kane and Nestor
- the state of Pennsylvania and possibly a couple bordering states. Lol. We know Nestor had a big mouth and took half the population of Pennsylvania to the casinos with him when he tried to exploit it. So a lot of the people in the Northeast knew about this play and the right sequence to activate it.
- law-enforcement officials, prosecutors, etc. The ones intimate with the case would’ve known exactly how this play went down.
I wasn’t in the gambling world in 2009 but I’m starting to wonder if I didn’t even know about this play back then. Lol
The point being it’s not too hard for me to see how someone in the gaming community, especially in Las Vegas, would have known about this play and also the correct sequence back in 2009, and especially now. Any intelligent person should be able to get this information.
I don’t buy that the wired article got the sequence wrong on purpose. When the wired article came out, this play had long since stopped, and the slot machines had the upgraded program. Someone could easily learn the correct sequence from many different sources. What would be the purpose of the wired article getting the sequence wrong?
This does not prove or disprove if Rob knew about it, or found out about it in 2004.
It is somewhat suspicious that Rob gave the winnings to his kids and didn’t save his tax returns or the WG forms if he wanted to later prove his claims.
It doesn’t really matter to me either way but I do think Kj brings up some good points. Also, since the play is understood through all the Kane and Nester articles, I don’t know what value there is for someone to explain how they exploited it on a radio program. Others have said the same thing.
Just my two cents worth since I know everybody’s waiting to see what I have to say on this critical topic. Lol