Beating the Game King video poker

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Beating the Game King video poker

Post by Pigeon » Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:15 am

Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay
HOW THEY BEAT THE HOUSE

The “Double Up bug” lurking in the software of Game King video poker machines sur­vived undetect­ed for nearly seven years, in part because the steps to repro­duce it were so complex. John Kane and Andre Nestor experi­mented until they could trig­ger it at will.

1. Locate a Game King video poker machine con­figured for multi-denomination play. If you're in Las Vegas, you're probably already standing next to one.

2. Flag down a slot attendant and ask them to enable the Double Up option. Say thank you and smile until they walk away.

3. Insert money or a voucher and select the lowest denomination level offered by the machine—for example, $1 per credit on a $1, $2, $5, $10 machine.

4. Choose your favorite game variant—Triple Double Bonus Poker is fun—and start playing.

5. Keep playing at the $1 level until you win a big hand. An $800 royal flush is perfect.

6. With your royal flush showing but not yet cashed out, hit the More Games button on the touchscreen and select a different game variation. Play it until you score a win.

7. Insert more money or a voucher into the machine.

8. Touch the More Games button again, and change to the maximum denomination—in this case, $10 per credit. Then return to your original $800 royal flush.

9. Press the Cash Out button. “Jackpot! $8,000” will appear on the screen and the light on the top of the machine will illuminate. Congratulations!

10. Wait for the slot attendant to show up with an IRS form W-2G (“certain gam­bling winnings”). Once you've signed it, they'll get the machine to spit out a jackpot ticket.

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