Wizard Investigate Online Casino Debacle
Published: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
WIZARD TO INVESTIGATE ENGLISH HARBOUR ONLINE CASINO DOUBLING DEBACLE
Agrees that initial player results improbable
Further to our earlier Online-Casinos.com & InfoPowa report on the improbability of the odds on video poker doubling at English Harbour Online Casino, the Wizard of Odds - Mike Shackleford has issued the following statement:
"Yesterday, May 2, I was made aware of the issue of possible irregularities in the doubling feature of Odds On [Vegas Technology] software.
"Let me assure you that the Odds On management and myself are taking this very seriously. As soon as possible I plan to conduct an analysis of all double or nothing bets made since January 1. If necessary, Odds On will hire a third party to conduct the same study. Until we have had a chance to review the log files we can neither confirm nor deny the accusations.
"I will say now that indeed I have auditing most of the Odds On casinos, including the English Harbour. Also, I agree with the original allegations that the probability of 84 or fewer wins in 235 resolved bets is 1 in 135929."
Player tests on the VP doubling feature showed that out of 1537 trials of video poker double up, only 522 wins were recorded. The probability of this in a fair game is approximately 1 in 2,016,352,813,782,491,278,292,828,543,127,849,349.
