In a message dated 10/28/2002 1:20:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
gamb00ler@lvcm.com writes:
I can't remember where I read this but here's the gist of what I remember as
the explanation of what happened:
- it was in Canada
- the man was not charged with any crime
- he hit more than one very long shot keno jackpot
- he did not use any sophisticated mathematical analysis to predict the
PRNG
- he did notice repeating patterns each day
- the machines were powered off each night and restarted every morning
- the machines were designed to run continuoslyThe likely explanation is that the PRNG restarted at the same point after a
power on restart. Apparently, the fellow in question detected and
exploited
the pattern.
This is exactly what I read but I didn't realize that it was a Canadian
casino. I thought it was the Rio.
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