Hey VW that's the exact same system I used to use
Be that as it may, I found your account funny and
(unlike :machinegu whatsisface)
quite entertaining.
Whatcha reckon V ... the OP onto something here?
Probably not.
Over the years it has been revealed that horse racing has been rigged to a considerable degree by insiders. Jockeys being paid to deliberately throw a race, opponents horses being drugged, one's own being given illegal performance enhancing potions, handicaps being manipulated, etc.
In effect, Dad didn't stand a chance because the horses kept on getting "chipped"
The problem with his system was that it produced far too many "leads", and it was the process of reducing the list to a manageable size that messed things up.
In a nutshell (a coconut that is, not a walnut - I am not known for brevity), Dad's system was about looking for patterns in past results for individual horses and trying to predict it's next placing. The selections in a race were those horses who's pattern indicated a win the next time out. The drawback was that sometimes half the field in a race was "due" a win on the next outing, and the art of predicting which of half a dozen horses was "the most due" was it's downfall.
He always believed that if "done properly" it would be a dead cert money maker, but he was never able to do it "properly" in 50 years.
Trying to develop a system can be a fun challenge though, and it does seem that there are such people as "professional gamblers" who can consistently beat the odds over the long term, especially when it comes to sports betting and games where the actions of the player can influence the outcome (Poker for example, even card counting in Blackjack). There are people who bookies fear, and who casinos throw out on sight, because they can consistently beat the odds. In effect, their "snake oil" works, and those who should REALLY understand systems, the operators and bookies, believe in them.
The art of making money from a system is not necessarily finding one that works, but one that can convince people who should know better that it does. There are many tipsters making good money out of systems that have little basis in maths or science, but they have a radio show, or newspaper column, and they get paid for producing them. They just need a few of their tips to win to look credible.
There are also many "professional gamblers" who sell their tips on a subscription basis where you pay so much a year and get in return a limited number of "dead cert" tips. They don't all win, and this is admitted. The systems are sold on the basis that if followed properly, they will produce an overall profit, or your money back (the subscription that is, not your losing bets).
I am never going to sell a fruitie system to Nifty, but who knows, I could place an ad in the Sun, which has already hosted an ad for the fruitie systems of the pro players of the 1990's. I even bought one of them for £20 just to see what was REALLY on offer, and it was essentially a load of bollocks, nothing more than pointing out how some universal "hidden features" worked, such as the third hold on a pair always giving the win. However, for newbies, such basic knowledge would indeed be of benefit. What was conspicuous by it's absence were those systems that really DID work because of a bug in the machine's software, the systems where the REAL money was being made.
Online games are no different, they too are based on software, and so it is just as likely that there will be working systems because of features that don't actually work as the operator thinks, and that due to errors of calculation can lead to an RTP of over 100% if "done properly". The fact is, such bugs have gone live, but the ones we hear about the most are those that work in favour of the casino, which players discover and make a big fuss about. The Finsoft case went to the highest levels, but we didn't hear calls for Microgaming to be investigated over Chief's Fortune did we, the players who knew that one kept their mouths shut for three months whilst Micogaming didn't have a clue, and even kept quiet when it was discovered and it became clear that Microgaming had decided not to admit the screw up, but instead try relying on vague "advantage/illegitimate play" reasons for the voiding of winnings gained via the bug. The game was then pulled, fixed, and only came back at a few places, not everywhere it had been yanked from. In fact, very similar to the fate of a pirate themed slot
I have also been looking around at the new breed of Quickfire based flash casinos, and have noted that many of the fruities have been retired, rather than having been ported from the old Flash client to Quickfire.
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