Marco Vitali writes about how casino games and casino rooms are constructed: the published argument over floor design, how a progressive jackpot is funded out of a game’s return, and why certification rules out the prediction claims that circulate around slots.
His articles work from published sources and name them: Friedman’s 1999 book on casino design against Kranes’s 1995 paper, the 1984 virtual-reel patent, the Guinness-recognised Mega Moolah payout of 2018. Where a figure is not published, the article says so instead of estimating.
Every figure is traced to something a reader can open: a published book or paper, a patent record, a regulator’s published rule, or the game’s own information panel. No session logs, no play testing and no private data — this site has no access to any operator’s systems. An earlier version of this page claimed a corpus of 6,000 documented sessions. There was no such corpus, and the claim has been withdrawn.
Floor design is a published discipline with a documented argument at its centre. The «secret tricks» and the stories that went with them were invented and have been removed.
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The pool is funded out of the game’s return. The «real stories» of ruined lives this page used to tell were invented and are gone.
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There was no test, no 18,000 spins, no player sessions and no research team. Why prediction software cannot work, and what to read instead.
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