you know that as the owner of bustabit you are the only one who knows the pre-bets of every user before each round + you can get the result of every game in advance. You could in theory create your own bot that plays exclusively for the bonus pool making it very hard for anyone else to play +EV at this game, obviously you would switch the bots names occasionally since anyone that ever caught on could destroy your bankroll.
And nobody would ever know.
Not saying you do that since you probably already make a mint from this game but you could.
Yeah, you're completely right. The pvp aspect of bustabit isn't provably fair, as you point out:
a) I know what the game outcome is going to be and
b) I know how other players have bet, before it's revealed.
I've never however played against player, or provided information to anyone that would allow anyone to. There's no way I can prove that, but most of the bonus hunters are pretty scientific about it (as they tend to not be gamblers, but advantage players) so I suspect they would notice pretty quickly if bonus hunting became impossible (because I was skimming). I guess they'd have no way of knowing if that's because they've been outsmarted by a better bot(s), or if I'm cheating.
Maybe I should start publishing weekly figures of who are the biggest bonus collectors (both in % terms, and absolute terms) so people can get a feel for who are the bonus hunters and if they think that is or isn't me
