Does anyone know if the odds and rules in online roulette are the same in 'live' mode as they are in 'fun' mode? Many thanks for any help on this.
Ian
Would be the case for the reputable software brands, but others have been known to deliberately enhance "fun" mode in order to give players a false expectation of what they might get if they used real money (including Welsh money
)
Microgaming can be trusted.
Cryptologic uses the PC's own RNG, and can give odd results for the random jackpot games, although general play should be similar to real money expectation.
RTG operators can tweak the odds of most games - with this in mind, it is possible the more ruthless (I.e Virtual Group) would take advantage of any ability to tweak fun mode as a marketing tool. I do not know if RTG operators can do this per account, or have to do it over the entire casino as a whole.
Playtech - I think this is honest in fun mode as against real mode.
I do not know so much about the others, but there have been many accusations levied at various software brands, and discussion has ensued as to whether the cases have merit. A few minor brands were busted for "cheating" in fun mode, and some have even been busted for "cheating" in REAL Mode. When caught, they have claimed "software error" as the culprit. High profile cases of "cheating" in real mode include English Harbour group (Odds-On/Vegas Technology) - error was confined to the doubling game of the VP. Mansion, multi-player VP was redrawing discards, but the rules said this did NOT happen, the "error" makes quite a difference to the small house edge involved in Video Poker (in the casino's favour of course
).
Most recently, Absolute Poker has been accused, and with pretty good evidence, of having around 20 accounts "cheating" by being able to see other player's hole cards. There have been suggestions this has been going on for some time, but was discovered when the cheats just got plain greedy and were busted royally by game stats.
MANY casinos have been accused of "cheating", but normally this is explained away as an unlucky streak that stands up to statistical tests as being unfortunate, but not all that unlikely over the longer term.
The rogue pit here includes a section on known cheating software (as well as casinos rogued for other reasons), and these casinos should be avoided unless you just want to be fleeced in the name of entertainment, (or you know of a way to cheat back
).
The accredited list contains casinos known to be reliable in not having bent software, nor in cheating players out of rightful winnings. With some, standards of customer service have lapsed on occasion, giving the impression they have been listed in the wrong section.