Look after the pennies

The Lucky Donut

This blog has moved. Click here...

Friday, May 22. 2009

Look after the pennies

Gala.  Giving away money again.  This is not how casinos are meant to operate.

I deposited £10 for today's bonus and it didn't work.  So I tried transferring the money via my poker balance to see how much they'd sting me on the exchange rate.

I started with £38.22.

I transferred £20 to poker, which was converted to $30.62.

Then, I wasn't sure whether the amount to transfer back was in pounds or dollars.  I entered "20" in the currency-less field and pressed "go".

That meant $20, apparently, which converted back at £13.07.  Then I transferred the remaining dollars back to pounds.

I made a penny.  In fact, I made two.  After I noticed this had happened, I had to try to reproduce it to get the screen grabs above.

I've contacted customer support about this.  While the idea of making a bit of money Office Space (or Superman III) style is attractive, PMITA prison is not so much.

EDIT: Bizarrely today my balance shows as £38.22 on the homepage and £38.23 in the cashier.  Looks like they are storing balances internally accurate to fractions of a penny, then rounding differently in different places.

Posted by luckydonut in Casinos at 15:55 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)
View as PDF: This entry | This month | Full blog

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

When casinos go broken
What's wrong with this picture? I've taken the liberty of enlarging the relevant text (or you can click to view the full original screenshot). Balance £3. Which means I have insufficient funds to place a £2 bet. Let me try to take a stab a Comment (1)
Weblog: The Lucky Donut
Tracked: Jun 01, 22:52

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

No comments

Add Comment

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

 
 

View as PDF: This entry | This month | Full blog
theme Joshua Tree by David Cummins

Calendar

Back May '12
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
  1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31      

Quicksearch

Archives

  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • Recent...
  • Older...

Categories

  • XML Las Vegas (134)
  • XML Casinos (34)
  • XML News (3)
  • XML Trip Reports (7)
  • XML Las Vegas April 09 (12)
  • XML Las Vegas December 07 (12)
  • XML Las Vegas December 08 (14)
  • XML Las Vegas January 07 (12)
  • XML Las Vegas June 2008 (16)
  • XML Las Vegas March 08 (18)
  • XML Las Vegas Summer 06 (28)
  • XML Las Vegas Summer 07 (34)
  • XML Las Vegas Summer 08 (31)
  • XML Las Vegas Summer 09 (37)
  • XML Poker (25)
  • XML GCBPT Liverpool 2008 (8)
  • XML GCBPT Teesside 2007 (6)
  • XML My Results (82)
  • XML Online Poker (134)
  • XML Orleans Open (10)
  • XML Poker Dome (16)
  • XML Strategy (8)
  • XML UK Cardrooms (45)
  • XML WSOP, WPT, EPT (37)
  • XML Random Thoughts (91)
  • XML Bargains and Freebies (15)
  • XML My Travels (15)
  • XML Photos (33)
  • XML Rants (23)
  • XML TV, Movies, Music (31)

All categories

Syndicate This Blog

  • XML RSS 0.91 feed
  • XML RSS 1.0 feed
  • XML RSS 2.0 feed

Blog Administration

Open login screen

Powered by

Serendipity PHP Weblog
Serendipity PHP Weblog

Copyright

Creative Commons License - Some Rights Reserved
Original content in this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License