Issue #180
weekly
Dear Reader,
It finally snowed again. The last snow melted a couple of weeks ago, but it's returned, and I've been waiting for this since Spring is only a few weeks away, and I need once last chance to go sledding with the kids before things begin to warm up.
Well, actually it doesn't warm up around here until around June. Spring is mostly rain and cloudy windy days. So here I am, trying to pound out this newsletter knowing that this will probably be the last opportunity this year to go sledding. Umm...on second thought, I'll see ya later.
Absently yours,
Bryan
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If you are newly subscribed, or if you haven't been following the events of the past few weeks concerning RTG's "Caribbean 21" fiasco, here it is in a nutshell:
A player, who goes by the handle "Pirate of the Caribbean21" (I'll call him P21 for brevity's sake) played Caribbean21 Blackjack at a number of RTG casinos for a number of months winning in the neighborhood of $1.3 million dollars. Unbelievable - and that's exactly what the operators of some of these casinos thought. A few operators complained to RTG that there must be something wrong with this game -- this one player was kicking serious casino ass.
RTG pulled the game offline. They inspected the game, and just last week gave it a clean seal of approval and put it back in service.
But during the time that RTG was inspecting their P's and Q's (or I should say - 1's and 0's), the casino manager of Hamptons and P21 had a conversation over the telephone where the player admitted to using a robot. But the next day, the player claimed he made these admissions and confessions under duress. He states he had made these comments (which were tape recorded and spread all over cyberland) believing there was no other way to get any money out of Hamptons.
The casino claims it has evidence of robot play, but won't produce this information.
And now Delanos Casino won't pay. They owe the player around $70,000 dollars. Why won't they pay? Because P21 told the Hamptons manager (not Delanos') that he had used a robot. Delanos casino has a rule against Robot play. It's stated clearly here:
So what happened here? It looks like Hamptons Casino is using a Unified Gaming rule, and they brought this over from their happy days at UG. Delanos did not have this rule on their "Rules" page back in June 2003 according to the Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/, so this is a recent update. How recent? We don't know. This is up to Delanos to clarify.
But why ban robots? Hampton's manager told me the reason they ban robots is that they want real players playing their games. He equated it to playing in Vegas: they have the shows, the free drinks -- the action, everything going on around you to distract you while playing; thus the house edge gets even better.
The same thing goes for online play. These anti-bot operators want real players, ones who make mistakes, or get distracted, or who go by gut feelings and not use perfect robot-like strategy and hit when they should stand. The house edge gets even better when you aren't playing perfect strategy.
But isn't that what most of us are trying to accomplish? To play perfect strategy? Isn't this why Microgaming has robot play built into their game package? Isn't this how you are supposed to play?
Jyde, one of our more profound posters in our forum put it mildly:
I think not. Unfortunately, once the main stream press gets wind of this, most of the people involved will wonder why didn't they just pay the guy and make a big PR issue out of it. 20/20 hindsight has a serious price sometimes.
I've been corresponding with the operators of Delano Casino over the past several days. One of the last things I mentioned was:
Read the rest of his shameless exploit here.
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3. This week's humor
While walking down the street one day a female senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. Her soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. "Welcome to Heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in," says the lady. "Well, I'd like to but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in Hell and one in Heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."
"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in Heaven," says the senator.
"I'm sorry but we have our rules.." And with that, St. Peter escorts her to the elevator and she goes down, down, down to Hell. The doors open and she finds herself in the middle of a green golf course.. In the distance is a club and standing in front of it are all her friends and other politicians who had worked with her, everyone is very happy and in evening dress.
They run to greet her, hug her, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at expense of the people. They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster and caviar. Also present is the Devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes.
They are having such a good time that, before she realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives her a big hug and waves while the elevator rises.
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on Heaven where St. Peter is waiting for her.
"Now it's time to visit Heaven." So 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before she realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
"Well then, you've spent a day in Hell and another in Heaven. Now choose your eternity." She reflects for a minute, then the senator answers: "Well, I would never have said it, I mean Heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in Hell."
So Saint Peter escorts her to the elevator and she goes down, down, down to Hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and she is in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. She sees all her friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags. The Devil comes over to her and lays his arm on her neck. "I don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and club and we ate lobster and caviar and danced and had a great time. Now all there is a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
The Devil looks at her, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were campaigning. Today you voted for us!"
Ha ha ha ha
Complaints? Kudos? Please let me know.
Peace
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