Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Casinomeister
This just in from English Harbour:
Thank you for taking the time to review and play our games. We take your comments seriously and as such have spent time reviewing our Video Poker game play and also await some feedback on an independent review from a 3rd party.
We have concluded our review of the game play and randomness for all Video Poker games. Although the doubling component of Video Poker is theoretically deterministic, it's common knowledge that there are varying chances for winning and losing when picking a card out of four, to play against the card that is dealt face up.
Randomness:
It's important that the frequency distribution of the cards in an adequate sample set are evenly distributed for each position in the doubling game. We have found, taking several sample sets over different and varying lengths of time, that they yield in our opinion, a non biased distribution of the cards.
Game Play:
In theory, the number of Wins versus the number of losses and (excluding ties) will converge to 50% over a sample set that is large enough. Should small sample sets be used to measure this metric, then results will vary as seems to be the case tracing through this thread.
We trust, that we have responded adequately and any doubt in peoples' mind are put to rest.
English Harbour Management
And it may be premature to say the the Wiz will be back sometime today/tonight with his results. It may be until the end of the week. We'll see.
|
Just as I expected: they "fixed" the problem internally then denied it happened. If the Wiz tests the software now, of course he'll find that everything is back to normal, but the data set obtained by forum members here show that at one point the game was crooked.
This whole episode left a very bitter taste in my mouth. Online you can't trust any casino. Not even big, previously reputable names such as OddsOn. Who's to say that not ALL their games are crooked? And the reason this particular crooked game was detected because they made it "too" crooked? Maybe they programmed their
VP doubling with a 2.5% advantage for the house, but instead some programmer typed in 25%, and lo, you get the result we obtained. If they left it at 2.5% no one would have noticed.
This kind of deception happens online because there are no regulations, no audits, no gaming commissions, nothing. It's a big free for all. Human greed unchecked will not be satisfied just winning money with the build-in "house advantage", but also by stealing it using cheating software.
The internet gaming community needs to protect itself better against these practices.