I made some profit in card counting and poker, and made friends with some of the pros—there were definitely profitable teams and syndicates, and part of their profits was in identifying broken games and exploiting them until fixed. I had a decent job at the time, and didn’t really want to commit that much energy to it, so I remained a hobbyist and hanger-on.
I knew about a number of progressive slot jackpots that were +EV for periods of time, a bunch of promo or just miscalculated bonus bets at small casinos, suspiciously-generous Keno payouts, and the like. There was talk of large government lotteries that were exploitable, mostly in too-much-payout to near-misses, but I don’t know of any actual big hits. There were a lot of smaller wins, and perhaps a dozen of my close acquaintances were making a good living at this (and probably 10x that many supplementing a regular job, and I’m sure 100x that many not doing that well but claiming they were).
I made some profit in card counting and poker, and made friends with some of the pros—there were definitely profitable teams and syndicates, and part of their profits was in identifying broken games and exploiting them until fixed. I had a decent job at the time, and didn’t really want to commit that much energy to it, so I remained a hobbyist and hanger-on.
I knew about a number of progressive slot jackpots that were +EV for periods of time, a bunch of promo or just miscalculated bonus bets at small casinos, suspiciously-generous Keno payouts, and the like. There was talk of large government lotteries that were exploitable, mostly in too-much-payout to near-misses, but I don’t know of any actual big hits. There were a lot of smaller wins, and perhaps a dozen of my close acquaintances were making a good living at this (and probably 10x that many supplementing a regular job, and I’m sure 100x that many not doing that well but claiming they were).