Re: [vpFREE] Re: you have to wonder about how random machines are....

There were no "casinos" in Larry Volk (American Coin), they were
neighborhood bars. The bars did not own or control the machines and
did not know about the cheating.

And again taking the license of Venetian would have amounted to a
death sentence (the business would have closed) and the parallel to a
driver's license isn't worth comment. Of the 4 executives fired, one
ended up running Wildfire for stations, 2 at an Indian casino in
Oklahoma and I don't know what happened to the fourth. Should they
have been prevented from ever working again? Personally, I don't
think so -- after all lawyers are only disbarred for the most severe
violations, most carry a lesser penalty. Rigging a few drawings,
while very wrong, isn't the worst thing they could have done and they
did not directly profit from it. Others can disagree but I think
their punishment served to discourage others from committing this
tort in the future.

At 02:51 PM 2/10/2010, you wrote:

> >
> > For this reason, I don't know that biasing the RNG in a slot
> machine is worth the chance of getting caught at it. Maybe I
> underestimate greed.
> >
> > I wouldn't worry about a casino dorking around with machine
> payoffs, mainly because I have no way of knowing if they do that,
> and because I don't see that that is in their best interest.
> >
>That all sounds good and I'm sure we all want to believe it BUT the
>facts are the casinos have been caught red-handed gaffing machines
>(see Larry Volk) and fixing drawings (see Venetian scandal). Also
>the much ballyhoed "they won't do it because they'll lose their
>license" is weak since neither the Venetian nor any of the casinos
>in the Larry Volk scandal lost their licenses for even a single second.
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