Quote Originally Posted by duped_samaritan View Post
Seems like a promo where the more you gamble, the more entries you get and someone gambled a shitload more than anyone else.
Probably.

Casino drawings are very shady in general. Nevada law says they can't be rigged, but they can be pseudo-rigged to where most people have about zero point zero chance.

So it's illegal for them to predetermine a winner.

However, it's completely legal to award an insane number of free entries to people who gamble a lot, provided that everyone has the opportunity to also earn those entries if they gamble the same amount.

So if there's one high roller who is dwarfing everyone else in play, then they can almost guarantee he's the winner.

This can especially be accomplished if they top-load the entries, such as:

- Earn 100 tier credits, get 100 entries
- Earn 1000 tier credits, get 5000 entries
- Earn 10,000 tier credits, get 100,000 entries
- Earn 100,000 tier credits, get 5,000,000 entries
- Earn 250,000 tier credits, get 50,000,000 entries
- Earn 1,000,000 tier credits, get 5,000,000,000 entries

So the guy with five billion entries might very well have the majority of entries in the game, especially in a smaller casino.

I actually benefited from this at Harrah's Rincon in 2015, when they ran a tier-credit-related promo on a dead weekday. I was the only one hammering high stakes video poker, and not surprisingly, I was called up to do their promo game. I think I won $500.

With that said, perhaps one of my characters will call them up on radio tomorrow night.