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Imagine you had a system to predict the outcome\nin a seemingly impossible-to-beat casino game that offers enormous jackpots and,\nwith just a few wins over time, you and your confederates might all be\nmillionaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worth the risk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Record Keno Win Attracts Suspicion <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On January 14, 1995, a player at Bally\u2019s in\nAtlantic City bought $100 worth of Keno tickets at 10 bucks a piece with eight\nnumbers selected on each ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buying Keno<\/a> tickets is not the hallmark of a professional gambler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game tends to target casual players, addicts\nand people tired of the rock and roll bingo lifestyle. So when Reid Errol\nMcNeal collected his receipts, no one was sweating the action upstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few minutes later, however, everyone with an\nounce of responsibility to protect Bally\u2019s games was taking a very keen\ninterest in Mr. McNeal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those tickets had hit all eight numbers\nagainst odds of 230,000 to 1, with a less than generous (based on those odds)\n$100,000 jackpot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody was more surprised than McNeal, suddenly\na deer in the headlights of casino security who had some serious questions\nbefore they would hand \u201cLucky Errol\u201d his cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Security Was On To Them<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Several aspects just didn\u2019t look right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

McNeal wasn\u2019t exactly over the moon about his\nsudden windfall, he had no identification, and refused to take a cheque. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the loudest alarm bell for the casino was\nthis: no one had ever won so much at Keno in the history of Atlantic City! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understandably, this player deserved a little\ninvestigation before handing him the Benjamins so, to make sure he was on the\nlevel, State Troopers were called and asked to verify McNeal\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they got to his hotel room upstairs, things\nquickly began to unravel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Errol\u2019s room was a second gentleman, by the name of Ronald Harris<\/a>, who immediately seemed odd and evasive to the gaming investigators and law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ronald
Criminal Ronald Harris got caught stealing thousands. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Since no crime had been established nor was it really suspected at this point, after confirming Harris and Morris\u2019s identity, they left Ron Harris in the room and took McNeal downstairs to ask a few more questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTE: I\u2019m aware that players get irritated\nwhen they hear about casinos not paying off without interrogating winners, but\nwhen the prizes is so large and so unlikely one should expect at least a little\nsuspicion. Reid Errol McNeal and his nervous buddy Ron Harris really stunk up\nthe joint, and everyone knew something just wasn\u2019t right.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure enough, when they checked out Ronald Harris, he proved to be an employee of the Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/a> so something was definitely going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the question was: what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Employee With The Right Access<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How does a Gaming Control Board employee predict\nthe outcome of a sucker\u2019s bet, with odds of 230,000 to 1?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer lay in Mr. Harris\u2019s day to day work,\nas a computer technician ensuring slot machine chips in Las Vegas were not\ninterfered with, switched or reprogrammed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His job required him to randomly select machines\nand check their EPROM chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"EPROM
Example of an EPROM chip. Harris is thought to have cheated the code in thousands of machines to steal money. [Image: Wikimedia Commons]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Under further investigation, he was accused of reprogramming those slot machine computers to pay out in response to certain combinations of coins being inserted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a player dropped coins into the slot in a prescribed manner, the reprogrammed EPROM would quickly deliver a jackpot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was thought that Harris employed several confederates to use this information on reprogrammed machines<\/a> across the city, winning thousands in a single sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his return from Atlantic City, Harris was arrested\nand fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subsequent investigation resulted in charges\nbut the question remained about how he had beaten a Keno game thousands of\nmiles away in beautiful New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Ronald Harris\nCheated Code<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a computer engineer, Harris had realised that\ncomputer programs in that era had difficulty generating random numbers and\nusually used algorithms based on past sequences or results to generate future\noutcomes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It occurred to him that this might represent a weakness he could take advantage of by duplicating the code used to generate Keno numbers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He could then enter previous results of a target game and use the same hardware to make predictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Keno
Harris hacked tons of machines’ code to steal money from casinos. [Image: Pinterest]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He figured that if the same program running on\nthe same type of machine had the same results to work from, the numbers\ngenerated by Harris\u2019s machine might come close enough to the casino numbers and\nshow a profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris built his device using stolen equipment and booked a flight to Atlantic City where his buddy McNeal would buy tickets for a few days to test Harris\u2019s theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem was that it worked all too well, all\ntoo quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They hit the biggest jackpot ever recorded for\nthe game of Keno on their first try!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one was more surprised than Harris, who was\nonly looking to test his system before rolling it out in Nevada and had rather\nfoolishly booked into the same hotel he was trying to cheat under his own name!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even worse, after gaming officers and state\ntroopers came calling, Harris panicked and ran for the airport, leaving enough\ncomputer equipment to tip authorities to what might be going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You really couldn\u2019t make this shit up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lesson? If You\u2019re Going To Cheat, Be\nSubtle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An important lesson for anyone trying to work an\nadvantage against a casino or other players (or just outright cheating) is to\navoid hitting the game so hard that you have to skip town as soon as you get\nthe money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, it\u2019s often said that a good deck switch<\/a> will \u201cwake the dead\u201d in a poker game since it\u2019s such a heavy, sure fire way of taking everyone\u2019s money. But there\u2019s a reason that some coolers are so effective they have to be used as a form of hit and run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put yourself in Ron Harris\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re dishonest enough to sabotage slot machines all over Las Vegas. You stumble onto a way to beat a game that could potentially pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when you take that idea out for a quick test\ndrive, you end up hitting all eight numbers on a single ticket first time out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the chances?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk about bad luck…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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