The thread at Casinomeister clearly shows Hampton lied about their so called proof that a bot had been used. The MANUFACTURER of the software stated that tracking mouse movements is NOT a feature built into the software.
Hampton lied when they said they determined a bot was used by reviewing logs and tracing mouse movements. Cut and dry.
In the same thread it was clear that RTG stated it would be impossible for a bot to change the basic fact the game has a built in house edge no matter what a human (or bot) does.
They stated it’s a negative expectation game for the player.
To claim that a bot changed the odds of the game or pay outs the Pirate would have been due is absurd and a way to avoid paying a winner a large sum of money.
They were reaching for any straws they could find to invalidate a win by a player. Hampton watched the whole thing unfold and each hand played. This was no surprise to them. The player asked them to raise the table limits, they reviewed his play and manually approved the increased hand limits. They were in the drivers seat through out this whole incident and are fully responsible for the outcome.
Do you think it was the bot that asked for a table increase? Was it a bot dealer that approved $10K per hand wagers?
When Ron was trying to set the player up on the phone the pirate went along with him in hopes of getting paid. But ANYONE with even a basic understanding of programming would have known he was joking when he said the bot was written in COBOL. That language was popular in the 1960s and 70s. It’s basically a dead language. Hell, when I graduated college in 1984 it had already been abandoned and people where writing in C++
Honestly when have you seen a COBOL application discussed anywhere in recent memory?
The whole thing stinks like a fish that spent a week in the Nevada desert.
If RTG hadnt of stepped in and saved face for themselves as a software provider it would have been a terrible black mark against them and a terrible precedent for ALL players.
There is no ambiguity here at all. Hampton is in the wrong…