Ever win something big in demo mode and feel stupid?

[thejaytiesto]

Like you are trying out a new gambling website with a cool game of dice, slots, roulette or whatever, and you start with the additional demo credits, keep playing, and you are on a lucky strike and end up with 1+ BTC but since the credits are all fake because you are in demo mode, it's all for nothing. This happened to me once and felt pretty stupid. It's not only bad luck, but having good useless luck which is even kinda hilarious.

[maku]

YES! Many times actually. I always try to find new and existing place to play, and I enjoy testing things up. In a process I end up with many test games. During many of them I have incredible luck streaks.
If I gather all virtual tokens I won during that test games I would be rich man already.

[dooglus]

Yeah. Just last night I was testing out a new (to me) dice site, and found an exploit on it.

I turned the 400 satoshi faucet into 6.2 BTC by abusing the bug, then reported it to the owner (without trying to withdraw, of course).

I figured he would reset my balance since it was all cheated. He paused betting, fixed the bug, re-enabled betting, but I still had the 6.2 BTC balance.

So I thought I may as well see how high I could take it without cheating, now that the bug was fixed.

I got it up to 12 BTC, then lost it all. Just as my balance hit zero I got a PM from the owner:

  "Thanks for the bug report. As a thank you why don't you keep the coins you were able to win using the bug!"

Wow I felt stupid. I thought I was playing with "play money", since I was sure he would just wipe away my cheated balance.

He ended up tipping me 3 BTC anyway, so it's not all bad.

[virtualx]

Like you are trying out a new gambling website with a cool game of dice, slots, roulette or whatever, and you start with the additional demo credits, keep playing, and you are on a lucky strike and end up with 1+ BTC but since the credits are all fake because you are in demo mode, it's all for nothing. This happened to me once and felt pretty stupid. It's not only bad luck, but having good useless luck which is even kinda hilarious.

No, I never played in demo mode. I won big in real tho  1+ BTC is a lot, may have the same luck playing with real bitcoins.

[trafficolaa]

Yup it happened so many times while trying on demo mode to new sites it is like to have fun there with some comfort without any fear to lose real there once i was up 3+ BTC from 0.05

[pereira4]

Yeah. Just last night I was testing out a new (to me) dice site, and found an exploit on it.

I turned the 400 satoshi faucet into 6.2 BTC by abusing the bug, then reported it to the owner (without trying to withdraw, of course).

I figured he would reset my balance since it was all cheated. He paused betting, fixed the bug, re-enabled betting, but I still had the 6.2 BTC balance.

So I thought I may as well see how high I could take it without cheating, now that the bug was fixed.

I got it up to 12 BTC, then lost it all. Just as my balance hit zero I got a PM from the owner:

  "Thanks for the bug report. As a thank you why don't you keep the coins you were able to win using the bug!"

Wow I felt stupid. I thought I was playing with "play money", since I was sure he would just wipe away my cheated balance.

He ended up tipping me 3 BTC anyway, so it's not all bad.

Wow really nice story, good person. Most people would have not resisted the temptation and would have took the money and run. Too tempting when you are broke. Mind saying what site was that or at least what game mode was it? (as in slots, dice, cards..)

I had once a lot of luck with slots but I was in demo mode, needless to say it felt really frustrating.

[dooglus]

Wow really nice story, good person. Most people would have not resisted the temptation and would have took the money and run.

Well, I think it's a small site, and so a withdrawal of 6 BTC would probably have been processed manually - so it's not even sure that I could have withdrawn anything.

Too tempting when you are broke.

Yeah, it probably helps that I'm not broke. The temptation to steal is likely a lot stronger when you can't afford to pay your bills.

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Mind saying what site was that or at least what game mode was it? (as in slots, dice, cards..)

It was https://alterdice.com/ - they just added CLAM to the list of altcoins they support. I only discovered their site when they posted on the CLAM thread saying they had added it.

[iv4n]

Of course this happened to me few times. U are totally correct about stupid feeling after. And after that when i deposit something I lose everything and think that everything is one big scam.

[edmundduke]

It has happened quite a few times that i have won with free credits. Some of the most crazy wins come usually happen with them (i won a first roll 100 play credits on x9900) Now that was amazing lol, could have been a good roll on pretty much any amount
Didnt feel stupid tho, way these things are.

[ajareselde]

It happened many times to me to, but i wouldn't say i feel stupid over it; there's a large difference when you know you're playing with real money,
and when you're playing with free credits (there's no real rush with freebies), so i don't think it's accurate to think you would won if you knew that you actually
played with real money. And as an added bonus, atleast you can test out methods of playing w/o the risk as well.

[btcdevil]

quite it will happened because the site owners have designed the site like that that if you play with free credits you will win a big ones then it will tempt you to play with deposit and in some bets you will win after that you will start loosing and end up in loss. this has happened me also a lot. once i was introdued to a new casino site by my friend as he wanted referrals i join under his referral and earned nearly $100k but as they asked for deposit i done that and start to play but it ended up full loss then after i stoped to play in casino and with free money never as it is waste of time.

[mtnsaa]

I did many times and something tells me it's an strategy of the casino hehe. On the other hand it never enticed me to play actual money if it happened that way because I felt like I already had my lucky shot.

[mexxer-2]

I got it up to 12 BTC, then lost it all. Just as my balance hit zero I got a PM from the owner:

  "Thanks for the bug report. As a thank you why don't you keep the coins you were able to win using the bug!"

Wow I felt stupid. I thought I was playing with "play money", since I was sure he would just wipe away my cheated balance.

Awesome that you got 3BTC in the end(got to know about it from your feedback in the afternoon) , but you sure he wasn't trolling you by telling you could keep it right when you lost it? Lol

[amrulshare]

It also occasionally happens to me, but I consider normal. adrenaline mode demo  was less, because we know 

[fox19891989]

Like you are trying out a new gambling website with a cool game of dice, slots, roulette or whatever, and you start with the additional demo credits, keep playing, and you are on a lucky strike and end up with 1+ BTC but since the credits are all fake because you are in demo mode, it's all for nothing. This happened to me once and felt pretty stupid. It's not only bad luck, but having good useless luck which is even kinda hilarious.

haha when i have time i will do that to try the games, but one of my friend who works in a fiat casino told that the slots can get any result if you wanna, so they can set very high expected return like over 100% to lure players, and when the players play the money mode, the expected return turns into 95% or lower, very shady, so i won't trust slots any more.

[ACAB]

Nice memory dooglus. I never win anything big because probably I don't play demos a lot. They usually let you win because they have to encourage you to deposit money to the site. Human psychology, when you win with free money you think you can win with real money, too. In reality %99 times you end up losing your whole balance.

[Raimonn]

I'm sure its one thing that every player feels, casinos (or websites) want that you play on its site, they give you free credits on test mode and if you win easy you will want to try with your coins. I don't know if they change the odds, or only its our feeling, but i won more times with test mode than playing with real money.

[onlinedragon]

I never play any demo mode waste of time and don't like it to waste mine time. Also fake giveaway internet is full of this crap.

[Joel_Jantsen]

This is the story of my life ! Demo mode is like gateway to start gambling at any site.Demo mode attracts me to try the game and I actually end up winning which makes me want to put in more coins.As I do that I can only see them getting lower and lower until I hit the jackpot.But seriously I deposit the money and then try a demo mode just to get tips on how exactly to bet but when I hit play and win huge in demo I scratch my head thinking why didn't I just put the money and play.

[adaseb]

Yes but it goes the same way the other way around. Ever lose something and in demo and be glad it wasn't with real actual money.

In forex trading many do demo trading.