April 14 - Out of the five hundred California slots at Indian casinos
across the state that were examined last year, officials report that they found
problems with over 40% of them, leading to serious questions being posed about
these machines.
Following the state's first-ever inspection of California slots, it was
revealed in the report that at the seven casinos examined, it was found that the
software at many of these machines were so obsolete that inspectors simply could
not authorize them to operate.
According to the report, some of the software was so outdated that some
machines still had not heeded the software companies' updates from four years
back. This led to a number of problems, some of them serious enough to
distribute incorrect financial information to the central slot control
accounting system or to miscalculate progressive slot calculations. In most of
these cases, the player came out on the losing end.
Tribal representatives are arguing that the problem is not as bad as the
report makes out, and certainly counter claims of the severity of the software
shortcomings. An attorney representing some of the Indian casinos in California
state, Howard Dickstein said: "It's like having Windows '03 or Windows '07.
There is nothing wrong with the software and, by definition, the differences
between the old and new software don't involve game integrity, don't involve any
critical issues."
Indeed, the state has not required that the casinos remove any of the
obsolete software. Howard Ross, deputy director of the state gambling
commission's compliance division said: "The manufacturer hasn't said that the
software's been revoked. They're just warning them of the problem... The
manufacturer is no longer putting that software out, however. It's a gray zone."
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