Originally posted on 05/02/2017:

Quote Originally Posted by Dollars2Donuts View Post
Something doesn't just 'go wrong' with tried and true software unless it is manipulated.
Precisely. I get the Betfair fiasco they just had with their slot where in order to hit the jackpot, you had to be playing full stake or whatever and the player was playing a smaller stake but still hit it because of bad coding and his winnings got voided. The fact you had to be playing for the larger stake to win the jackpot was apparently in their rules. It is understandable how there may have been a programming oversight. It sucks for the player , but I understand how they had cause to void.

But in this case, what the hell happen? Maybe instead of having the game outcomes be dictated by some RNG, they had something in place or recently implemented some "cooler" routine that if a player got hot, it would cool them down. Maybe something got inverted in the code and it actually became a "heater" routine. It's just speculation, but it is tough to imagine something just going wrong with a legit slot machine that's been out and around the block. Maybe they tried to manipulate the machine to correct for luck, but messed up the implementation and got caught with their pants down.