I remember I could take a 400% slot bonus and just go on slots and wait till I get free spins and exit the slot,then when the money runs out,re deposit and not claim a bonus so I can cash out immediately and go back to the slots and unload the free spins.
Does this method still work?
Now, you wouldn't be asking this on a public forum if it STILL WORKED, would you
This trick has NEVER worked on Playtech or Cryptologic.
It DID work however on an earlier version of RTG. RTG fixed this over 2 years ago, in that the playthrough counter is no longer "tricked" into resetting when another deposit is made to "free the slots". You will STILL find you are bound to the original WR, but worse still, your new deposit will ALSO be bound to those WR.
It worked up until more recently with Rival software. I have this from some contacts who know about the "dark side", and certain other forums. Rival now look for this when an account seems "too lucky".
Microgaming fixed this long ago, with the fix being introduced when Clearplay was introduced, although it was botched at first. Microgaming casinos who do NOT use Clearplay are STILL vulnerable, unless they add this check into the usual audit process.
It may be that some smaller software vendors and operators "had not thought of this", but they will know now, won't they
It's not realy the same situation if you still have big bonus waggering requiments and a low ballance..and you know will be almost imposible to make your waggering...
The exploit has been fixed by ensuring that WR are not removed by a "faked" zeroing out of the balance.
There were some threads complaining about WR wrongly carrying over on both MGS and RTG software. It is quite likely that ONE cause of this was the introduction of the fix for this exploit, which WILL also have caused problems for those players who had ended up with an incomplete game due to a disconnect.
The main reason for this vulnerability having worked in the first place was LAZY PROGRAMMING. The software was NOT designed to return players to an incomplete game in the case of RTG and MGS, which meant that players would return and there would be no indication at all that there even WAS an incomplete game in the system.
Cryptologic and Playtech on the other hand, will present the incomplete game to you upon the next login, and you have no choice other than to complete it because you CANNOT open a fresh game until you do.
The fix introduced by RTG and MGS is STILL imperfect, because although the WR counters are not fooled, the software allows new games to be opened and played, and offers no way for the player to determine whether they have any incomplete games, something they will only notice when they see WR carry over, and they will have to ask support, and all support will say is "incomplete game in the system" without saying which one of some 400+ it could be
This also leaves the software vulnerable to a FUTURE trick that might arise because of a botched upgrade (I'm mainly thinking of MGS here
). Botched upgrades = higher vulerability to "new tricks".
A botched upgrade in 2006 cost MGS operators a fortune because a bug (or "trick") was introduced into the pair of reel slot games "Chief's Fortune" and "Diamond Deal". The trick was live for 3 months, the time it took operators to find it. Luckily for operators, it only worked ONCE per account, right at the point of creation. It got "busted" in part because some of those "in the know" got greedy and created multiple accounts in order to repeat the trick (which didn't involve taking a bonus). It was the mass multiple accounting, and the fact that so many of these accounts ended up winning off the first deposit, that gave them enough clues to find out what was going on.
Compared to B & M nowdays, 3 months is a LONG time for a trick to work. Before the days of the internet, Fruit Machine "tricks" could last over a YEAR, but now they can be exposed and fixed in a matter of DAYS.
If caught, it is likely to be viewed as "cheating", covered by the now infamous "irregular play" clause. Operators MAY still pay up, as otherwise they might have to risk the exposure of a serious flaw in the software. This was the line taken by MGS back in 2006, and even now operators are VERY reluctant to admit to tricks like this having ever existed, let alone any that may still exist, and are being discussed in the secret "member only" sections of forums catering for the "dark side", where topics such as "multiple accounting without getting caught" are likely to be discussed.