Wizard to investigate English Harbour doubling debacle

Further to our earlier report on the improbability of the odds on video poker doubling at English Harbour Casino, the Wizard of Odds, Mike Shackleford has issued the following statement:

"Yesterday, May 2, I was made aware of the issue of possible irregularities in the doubling feature of Odds On [Vegas Technology] software.

"Let me assure you that the Odds On management and myself are taking this very seriously. As soon as possible I plan to conduct an analysis of all double or nothing bets made since January 1. If necessary, Odds On will hire a third party to conduct the same study. Until we have had a chance to review the log files we can neither confirm nor deny the accusations.

"I will say now that indeed I have auditing most of the Odds On casinos, including the English Harbour. Also, I agree with the original allegations that the probability of 84 or fewer wins in 235 resolved bets is 1 in 135929."

Player tests on the VP doubling feature showed that out of 1537 trials of video poker double up, only 522 wins were recorded. The probability of this in a fair game is approximately 1 in 2,016,352,813,782,491,278,292,828,543,127,849,349.