"Gamble, drink and die"

[scorpio2]

and you can write in hilliary as vp,no just kidding.i have a professor friend lives close to denver.

[pokeherguy]

{and the feds only gurantee up to 250,000 dollars in banks,that's hardly high roller material. }
 
Thats true but its $250k per depositer so if you are married as in my case it would be up to $500k. That isn't per account either, so if you have more than that at any one bank I would suggest moving some to another bank.

[jslosky]

Another important difference between Vegas and Wall Street is that the "machines" on Wall Street don't have convenient window glasses that can tell you their expected returns. So we have drawn from each of the three solutions above. We've resolved not to worry too much about the paper profits that have vanished, as they were never ours to begin with and chasing after future gains or crying about past losses are both dangerous illusions. We're also hanging tight with most of our bets in the hopes the variance will turn our way in years to come. But we have taken a significant number of chips off the table and are moving them to hedge some of our bets.
We're still better off than a lot of people materially, and at least as well off as any who have good health, caring family and a happy home.
So our advice is to gamble and drink, by all means, but only in moderation; and to put the other out of your mind for as long as possible.

True words

[scorpio2]

die,i hear the casinos are tightening the machines now,with the bad economy!

[oej719]

Who did you hear that from?

[scorpio2]

don't you remember,they say part of the report the public cannot read.

[cddenver]

don't you remember,they say part of the report the public cannot read.
 
Scorpio, who's "they"?  As far as I know, just one person has said it.  Also, please explain to me how that information is known if it's, um, not public. 
 
I worked with state and federal regulators for many years in another big money industry (telecommunications).   The bottom-line information we gave them was public, but sometimes the computer models used to generate that information were considered private/confidential.  There isn't anything sinister about it.
 
The private/confidential stuff that game manufacturers give to regulators would be things like game software code, game chips, test results, possibly machines as well.   Regulators are entitled to it, but the manufacturers wouldn't want competitors or hackers it see it which is why it's considered private/confidential when turned over to regulators.   Having their own copies allows regulators to check things themselves and not just take the word of the game manufacturers.   If a question or problem comes up with machines in casinos the regulators then have their own copies of code or chips they can match against what's supposed to be in the machines.
 
I've never worked in the gaming industry, but one thing I can say for sure is that the private/confidential information Rob recently wrote about isn't a different set of specifications or rules for RNG that override what's in the regs, though that's what he implies.   Rob's come up with this new C.T. because he needs to, not because he actually believes that it's true.  Remember that each state has its own regulators, regulations, and inspectors.  The likelihood of any secret being exposed is directly proportional to the number of people in the know.
 
Rob's said before that there are loopholes in the regs; I don't know if a separate set of RNG specifications would count as a loophole.   There's no reason I can think of to have public specifications with loopholes in the regs and also separate private/confidential ones.  So, we'll take it as a given that Rob's view of the public specifications - now and forever! - is that they're good ones (honest), but just window-dressing for the actual private/confidential ones (in Rob's view).  So all we need to do is convince Rob that there aren't any secret, unpublished specifications. 
 
Hard to believe, too, that game manufacturers would turn over any material such as rigged software, chips, or faked test results to regulators that circumvented the published standards in the regulations, even on a confidential/private basis.  Anyone remember Watergate?  If this were to come to light, maybe during the trial(s) a 18 1/2 page gap could be found in a game program printout or an 18 1/2 micron rounding of a corner of a RNG chip.  
   

[faygo]

As with all highly confidential information, once you are told it, you have to be killed. Therefore, I for one am not in a rush to be let in on it.

[shadowman]

Scorp, when will you learn to ignore anything and everything that Rob says. His con is so obvious it is almost ridiculous. You do yourself no favors by admitting that you believe in these kind of conspiracy theories. You might as well walk around with a tin foil hat.
Oh, and I won another $500 today playing those "fixed" machines.

[cddenver]

His con is so obvious it is almost ridiculous.
 
I'd agree with you completely as long as you lose the word "almost". 
 
Congrats on another nice day, SM.    Please tell us your secret for winning on a rigged machine.  Turning the machine upside-down to confuse the RNG?  Same thinking -  sitting in the chair on your head and playing with your toes?