According to Wired: “Kane […] stumbled onto a firmware bug in IGT’s Game King video poker machine that allowed him to effectively play back a prior winning hand at ten times the original value.

They’d come to examine machine 50102, a Game King video poker unit on the casino floor that had been waiting for them, taped off like a crime scene, all weekend. Manufactured by International ...

On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the ...

That didn't deter a Las Vegas local named John Kane, who Wired reports used a previously unknown software glitch in a Game King video poker machine to score huge payouts. The exploit is a bit ...