Re: Easystreet reply to Cory
What was the real deal here?
Altho Cory had some black marks against him in the past,he posted up and they just stiffed him.
They claim he used a bot,this makes no sense really,if he had automated software that allowed him to play quicker,he would just lose quicker(if the VP was below 100% payback obvs)..it all stinks of shit altho I wasnt around at the time.
"Fly to Costa Rica & take a polygraph test" :LMAO:LMAO
I can't figure out how to search my old posts by keyword, but if you're able to find my old posts from that time, I had a few decent summaries of the situation. It was one of the most absurd fiascos I've seen in my 20+ years on gambling forums.
The most absurd part is that the RX, a forum that's promoted stiff/scam sportsbooks for years, actually invented a fake "anonymous mathematical expert" to weigh in, and from an old thread I found I saw that I mentioned there were at least 7 lies in that post. The post I found didn't list the specific lies, but the one lie I recall was that the RX claimed "Cory never took a break after hitting a royal." When the play logs were posted without the specific cards shown, it was revealed that while he played the next hand after hitting the royal, he did take long breaks the hand after that, which is indicative of someone playing fast enough that he hits "deal" before his mind processes the result of the previous hand, which is completely reasonable. Another lie I recall is that they claimed he hit 3 royals in 8000 hands, but that was by ignoring the sessions where he didn't hit a royal; the actual figure was 3 in 22,000 hands. The RX scumbag mod Wilhelm claimed "I worked in Vegas for many years and never once saw anyone hit that many royals" and the fake "mathematical expert" claimed hitting royals at that rate was a mathematical impossibility. Considering the expected rate of a royal in that game was around 1 in 40,000, as I recall the true odds of hitting that many royals was around 1 in 50, or not impossible at all.
Re: the bot accusations, as I recall EZ Street was offering him enough of a deposit bonus that the game was +EV, so he would have had an advantage playing faster, but there was no evidence he ever used a bot. I'ts a simple way for a shit book to scam, offer a big deposit bonus and then if the player gets lucky and hits multiple royals, find an excuse to stiff them. Some sportsbooks use this one too; you can afford to give ridiculous deposit bonuses if you stiff the 1% of your biggest winners.
His play rate wasn't absurdly fast for an online game, the time between hands varied a fair bit, and they claimed he "played 8 hours straight without any strategy errors" but never actually showed the logs with the cards so that someone could verify whether he actually made errors.
The particular game he was playing, there's a basic strategy and then several exceptions for penalty cards that add about 0.02% to your return, so for a lot of players it's simpler to just use the basic strategy rather than memorize the penalty card exceptions just to add 0.02%. I asked numerous times in the threads whether or not Cory's "perfect strategy" included the penalty card exceptions and got crickets.
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