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Originally Posted by
tomf23
it's extremely common with the legal sites.
Bonuses have really dried up in the last year or so but for a while many sites at bonus that would often clear at something like 4x on slots or 20x on BJ.
A lot of those sites then went to 10x on slots.
I just cleared some today that are now 25x on slots but only 50x on bj.
There have also been targeted offers that were 5-10x on BJ.
For a while Fanduel had a blackjack promo once a week they called Blackjack Warrior that was public. It started as bet 10k on BJ on a certain day of the week get 500 dollars. Then they lowered it to 250 dollars before getting rid of it.
There was an awesome public offer on Draftkings a couple of years ago-
play 20,000 on vacation BJ (it was just BJ with a certain felt design- the game was normal) and get a 2,000 dollar bonus.
Oddly it was only good in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Not sure about the rules in Michigan but in PA they have to give the extremely favorite PA rules set by the gaming commission.
There are many online casinos and most are legal within the jurisdiction they operate. I think what you mean is "the very small number of bricks and mortar casinos recently legalized in certain US states".
This is less than 1% of the global population of online casinos and most of these are restricted in other US states let alone other countries. So you are talking about a very niche opportunity.
That said blackjack bonuses clearly do exist to some extent here and even in the older online casino multiverse they are sometimes if very rarely offered (usually for lower absolute amounts to "good customers") so the question as to how casinos detect botting is worth addressing.
If I were running an online casino then I wouldn't see much reason to deal to any one:
1. Playing a rough approximation of basic strategy.
2. Betting minimum.
3. Not playing other games.
Bots fall into this category so there is no additional reason to detect or ban them specifically. They fall very obviously into a category of undesirable players. Which is why most casinos don't bother with bot detection as a practical matter. For recurring/targeted offers you don't need to ban, you just don't send offers to accounts without a history of negative expectation play. This in practice is what euro casinos/books have been doing for decades. In fact this is what happens in other areas where bots pose a threat: gold-farming in MMO's is a billion-dollar industry much more profitable than advantage play- video game operators just bar players who farm gold hours 18 hours a day they don't care whether they bot or not.
There are more sophisticated methods I've heard of. For example something poker rooms figured out early on was that if someone was clicking on the same pixel repeatedly they probably weren't human. But it is really easy to randomize mouse movement. You'd think that poker rooms and casinos would have worked out human movement isn't truly random or pseudo-random in the mathematical sense either, but it never got to that stage: they probably worked out this line of defense wasn't going to be successful. I would be careful to randomize everything with delays etc if using a bot though just in case.
Maybe the US operations coming online do something different and do actively seek out botters: But you aren't likely to ever find out exactly what that is since it is likely a trade secret, it will be different for each operation in any case, and by definition you can't figure it out logically because such efforts would be fundamentally irrational.
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