The state regulation would have no impact on whether the chips in the
machines were modified to hit fewer royals. They would still pay between the required
percentage.
Additionally, there would be nothing illegal in using an RNG that had longer
odds on the royal. It would also be very difficult to detect or prove.
In a message dated 3/11/2005 5:43:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
steviemcc1@yahoo.com writes:
The slot & VP machines are semi-regulated by the State of
Connecticut, as the State receives 25% of the profit from the
machines (nothing from table games however.) They are required to
payout from 80%-100% overall per machine. There might be some loose
interpretation to how that's defined. They do not have the numerous
regulations involving fair play in AC or Vegas. However, it would be
somewhat of a scandal if it were found that the machines were
deceptively cheating the players. Connecticut citizens would be
outraged and the media would play it up. This is where it's best to
write to our legislature or the Hartford Courant to enact further
regulation.
I believe with ~95% surety that the machines play fair. Even though
I've been on the unlucky side in PKM, I've been within reasonable
variance. The 5% of me that's unsure is still worthy of concern.
Unfortunately, it takes millions of plays to detect a small % of
bias. However, I have said that the nature of VP is to be pseudo-
random -- where the numbers seem to add up in the very long term, but
can act very unrandom, "streaky" or "clumpy" in the short term.
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