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Finding A Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich — Then Vegas Made Them Pay. The "Double Up bug" lurking in the software of Game King video poker machines sur­vived undetected for nearly seven years, in part because the steps to repro­duce it were so complex. John Kane and Andre Nestor experi­mented until they could trig­ger it at will.

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