Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay

[Johonny]

27. It is more like adding to your bet after the cards are dealt in blackjack

They game allowed you to up your bet when the odds were very high you'd win.There is a reason Vegas doesn't allow you to place chips off and on the pile after the cards come out (although really good players use slight of hand to do this). That the game had a flaw that allowed this is insanely funny since it is such a no no of Casinos. I'm not sure if there are formal laws against the practice. The conclusion though is... I can't see how a law against hacking applies. A law against cheating might if there is one that covers this area, but hacking? It sounds like a crazy application of the law. The fact they are using it sounds like the Casinos failed to legislate law for chip adding to begin with or else they'd use them. To me that is their failure to codify "house" rules into the general law and not the gamblers. Either way it would seem crazy to use the law they are trying to use on these men.