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Rigged Blackjack tables on the rise

Ron Overdrive
Registered User
Join date: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,002
12-20-2005 18:58
Was wondering by Busy Ben's and I noticed a few people (not gonna name names) that were hanging out in the test driving area so I wandered on out to take a look at what they were doing. Noticed they were playing Blackjack on what looks like a Modified Freebie Blackjack table (Blackjack 1.0a). Well I kinda listened in and zoomed in to find out a scam in the works.

First table one was showing the others was simply a retextured BlackJack 1.0a table, paying out normally. Didn't think much of it till the one said "Now I'll show you the rigged table." and pulls out an identical table. At first I thought it was just extremely high odds in favor of the house, I was dead wrong and its very scary. It paid out normally (45/55 player/house) except for one big difference, the payout value. 1 linden would get you 2000 lindens for winning. Max bet would get you 100,000 lindens. Afterwords he asked "So who's in?"

Buyer beware of BlackJack 1.0a based tables. If you get one in a freebie box, get somone you know who's a scripter to look at the code to make sure it isn't rigged. If you can't look at the code, scrap it. BlackJack 1.0a as far as I can tell has modify rights so if for any reason its No-Mod DON'T use it. All I can do right now is send out a warning since I don't have any proof they're actively spreading it yet.
Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
12-21-2005 12:16
From: Ron Overdrive


Buyer beware of BlackJack 1.0a based tables. If you get one in a freebie box, get somone you know who's a scripter to look at the code to make sure it isn't rigged. If you can't look at the code, scrap it. BlackJack 1.0a as far as I can tell has modify rights so if for any reason its No-Mod DON'T use it. All I can do right now is send out a warning since I don't have any proof they're actively spreading it yet.


That's a scary thought. Another thing to shake my head about when someome clueless resident IMs me "Hey Burke, some check out my new Blackjack table!"
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