A man addicted to gambling finds a bug in a video poker machine that lets him win excessive amounts of money.
References
- https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/
- https://www.wired.com/2013/05/video-poker-hacking-dismissed/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVjGybihYvE
Attribution
Theme music for this show was created by Breakmaster Cylinder.
Additional music by Epidemic Sound.
“Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Transcript
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JACK: [MUSIC] Ah, Vegas; home of swingin’ jazz, drunken mischief, and the dream of getting rich. Slot machines all around with the constant echo of people winning money everywhere. But the thing is the casino always wins. The machines and the games are built in such a way that in the long run the player will eventually lose. Almost every single bet you can place in Vegas has the odds in the house’s favor, yet millions of people play, looking for ways they can cheat the system. But what if you found a way to actually swing the odds in your favor and let you win whenever you wanted?