Hehe, yup, we decided to go for an old school look for this website. We really miss playing on the video poker machines in Las Vegas, so we decided to design the site around that style. Some people hate it, some people love it!

We also decided to make all of the games play quickly. This is another thing that some people really like, and some people don't much care for. It's hard to make everyone happy.

The big slots jackpot is now over 480 BTC! When this gets hit it will be the third biggest prize EVER on our site!

The test credit and real credit modes both use the same provably fair game code. There is nothing that we can do to manipulate the outcome in any way. If, for example, we tried to give the user more winnings in test mode, the browser-side provably fair verification would detect it and report it to the user.

Thanks for the nice words about our slots!

We have considered adding themes for a while now. There could be a button next to the help button where you can choose what theme to play with. We also briefly thought about having special limited time holiday themes (Christmas, Halloween, Easter, etc).

I've been playing on BVC for a while now, just want a bit of privacy for a big win.  Most of the coins for this jackpot came from my bets as I contributed to the jackpot for over 4 hours before I got it.   It's not that hard to win a jackpot, just have the right bankroll and keep playing until it is hit.  Other peoples bets don't effect your chances of hitting it.

We just had our biggest 0.005 BTC Slots jackpot ever! Congratulations b20397fb81 on your enormous 405.48 BTC win!!!

Yes you are probably correct that part of the problem lies in the progressive jackpots themselves. When the jackpot has a positive expected return, there is an incentive for bot operators to quickly play games since in the long run they should come out ahead.

When we created the site, we believed that adding progressive jackpots would be a fun way to make our site stand out from all the others. The jackpots are always changing size, so it serves as an incentive to come back to the site and see how big they are. It also lets some lucky players win big prizes. Therefore, we designed all our games around having progressive jackpots in addition to a low 0.5% house edge. We'd like to think that there are plenty of users that enjoy the jackpots – they probably just aren't as vocal on this forum.

We are worried that if we remove progressive jackpots and use some kind of fixed jackpot system, we will disappoint other users. As far as we can tell, most users come to the site and have a good time. If we start changing things around, that may no longer be the case.

For what it's worth, the most recent 37.048 BTC slots jackpot was won by a player that was playing at a rate of 2 games/second. As far as we can tell, this was a regular user that won the jackpot. Regular users do still win the jackpots. We do also sometimes see that a jackpot is +EV, but nobody is currently playing.

We only ever play the games on the site when testing something out. We never try to win the jackpots. We know that in the long run, with our 0.5% house edge, we will come out ahead, so we don't need to cheat. From a business perspective, it would be devastating to our site if we got caught cheating, so we simply refuse to do it. There are a lot of questionable Bitcoin businesses out there, but we are not one of them.

Acepuppy,

I made a post in this thread over a year ago about bots playing video poker at a furious pace as soon as the royal progressive made it a positive play. Bitcoinvideocasino (BVC) basically shrugged it off as legitimate. The conclusion I have made is that it's either BVC operating the bots to skim off the progressives or if it isn't that then BVC simply doesn't care if an advantage player is taking all of the coins out of their progressives. It seems unlikely that it's the latter as coins in the hands of regular players would likely be lost to BVC in the future so I think they have some hand in it.

The bots play hundred or thousands of hands per minute at the moment the progressive becomes positive. This is the reason I no longer play on the site even though I have no reason to believe the games are fixed.

I took a look at these accounts. Most of them were playing at a rate of 2-4 games per second, which is about the same as a user playing on autoplay in a single screen.

One account (it didn't win) was playing at a rate of 10 games per second, which could be a bot or multiple browser sessions playing at the same time. If the account shows up again we'll take a closer look.

Please keep in mind that the above list of users is showing a full minute of play. So even a regular user would get in a lot of games during these 60 seconds. 4 games per second on autoplay would be 240 games per minute, which would result in hitting 0 about 6 times every minute.

I understand the technical aspect of the problem with the bots and being able to prevent them. I do believe somehow inserting a captcha if X amount of rolls are generated within Y time.

By limiting the API calls to the same amount of time that a regular user can achieve by using auto would also help. I don't mind the idea that someone can run a ton of screens and win, I just dislike the idea that others are having an unfair advantage (spinning 100x faster than me). I was literally at a loss of words when I was running over 16 browser sessions trying to hit a jackpot on full speed auto and a bot owner comes in and is spinning 100x faster than me.

so here to all that blame only bots win jackpots

http://i.imgur.com/B8JlGim.jpg?1


this was me and im not a bot.so its possible to win.i was using autobet setting @ fast.

but still i think it might be annoying if u try for a bigger one and then the bots log in.

Yes, the bots have came to the point of being unacceptable. I will admit, that if I had the source code or capability then I would use the bot as well.

About a week ago I pumped the 0.001 Slots jackpot to 35+ BTC and as soon as it got close to 40 then the bots started firing. Within literally 2 minutes the Jackpot was hit and all the funds I pumped into the Progressive were gone.

I understand the idea that they could've raised it and I hit it, but they are firing so fast it's impossible to beat them. I've played the progressive hard in the past and won in the end before, but there is a threshold that triggers the bot players and then it's over.

I don't know the solution to stop this, but I wish something could be done about this. The whole mindset of going deep or playing big is the idea that when I do hit, I get most of my money back if not more. It scares me to play now knowing that at anytime they could fire the bots on and zap all the funds I've pumped into the progressive.