When I was 18 I found an offshore online casino that had a video poker game that paid out slightly over 100% if played perfectly. I don’t remember exactly why I

When I was 18 I found an offshore online casino that had a video poker game that paid out slightly over 100% if played perfectly. I don’t remember exactly why I couldn’t just reverse engineer the API so I wrote a program that would scrape the screen for the cards, determine which cards to hold, and physically move the mouse and click the correct buttons. I had the program running on a laptop in my mom’s kitchen all day and night, it drove her crazy (I liked having the sound effects on so I knew it was running 24/7). Made the house sound like a casino, lol. I was skeptical that it would actually work, I figured this random offshore casino probably rigs the RNG anyway, but it actually did pay out as expected. I logged every hand and it was pretty amazing seeing the royal flushes actually come up once every ~40,000 hands - needed those to make the whole thing work, obviously. They eventually caught on after around 10 million hands I think, banned me, stopped me from cashing the remaining funds out (wasn’t that much since I withdrew frequently), and changed the odds of the game.