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later was executive vice president of marketing for Wynn
Properties. For a time, Mr. Nicely offered consulting services
to gaming industry clients in six States and three foreign
countries. At the time of trial, he was the director of gaming
and design at International Game Technology (IGT)--the largest
slot machine manufacturer in the world.
Mr. Nicely knows and understands the gaming rules of
different jurisdictions. He has extensive dealings with
regulators, slot floor operators, directors of slot operations,
and vice presidents of operations in order to understand from
them directly how the slot machines are working. Mr. Nicely
works with various jurisdictional bodies including the Great
Britain Gaming Board, Alderney Gaming and Isle of Man, and
officials from Montana and other States.
Mr. Nicely has worked on “class 3 slot machines”,20 “class 2
games”,21 online gaming, and table games. He has access to casino
operations data and performs analyses to determine whether
various machines have been overpaying or underpaying gamblers.
20 “Class 3” slot machines are Nevada-style games where
every outcome is completely independent.
21 “Class 2” machines have a pull tab--like a “scratcher”--
or are bingo-like games. The outcomes on a class 2 machine are
all predetermined for pull tabs. Class 2 machines are analogous
to a standard deck of 52 cards--if the four aces are removed from
the deck, there is no chance of getting an ace on the next card.
This continues until “the deal completes” (the culmination of all
outcomes in a given set), and then it starts over again (like a
fresh deck of 52 cards).
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