Comment on How can casinos stay open when they lose so much money?
lemmyman@lemmy.world 1 year agoI can agree with all of that and still think it looks like the casino saying “uh, no we don’t want to pay you.” I think something is missing.
Maybe the key point is that the value displayed on the screen is, say, “derived” and not the “ground truth.” If you get cherry-coin-grape and that’s worth $2 but the display says $42 million, it better be well-established that cherry-coin-grape is the deciding output and not the display.
What if you get triple-treasure-chests and the casino says nah that’s a display bug, it was really cherry-coin-grape internally. Where’s the line here? Im sure it is legally established but of course shitty news articles aren’t going to go to that level of detail when they can quote the plaintiffs attorney instead
urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Yes, this is how it works. This is the regulated language. All symbols have pays associated with them.
I will give you another example: You hit red seven, red seven, red seven on a progressive machine. The progressive displays a value of $1,079 (and does not reset after the win) but the machine only pays $1,000. This is a problem with the settings of the machine, and the casino is required to pay the progressive amount of $1079 and possibly be fined for having a misconfigured machine. This is because the pay table lists this as awarding the progressive prize. Pay table is law.
I also suspect that the machine did not display a win of $43 million at all. I suspect the glitch occurred either when the win was added to her credits or when the ticket was printed (an error in memory, not in game logic).
SoupBrick@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Huh, that’s pretty neat! Would not trust casinos myself, tho.