At 23:40 UTC on September 21, 777777777777777 sat down at a blackjack table with a $1,000 hand. Seventy-three minutes and 71 hands later, $465,408 had crossed the felt.
The stakes kept changing: back to $1,000, then $5,000, $8,000, $15,000, $20,000. At 00:47 they put $30,003 on a single hand. It came back 1.5x, $45,005, the biggest single payout we've recorded for them. Six minutes later a $20,002 hand returned less than half.
Who is 777777777777777?
Duel's high-score table has them at $11.17 million wagered over the account's lifetime and +$415,840 in profit. That's #73 on the profit table and #201 by amount wagered. We've been recording their bets since September 21, and in three days we've seen at least $1.16 million go across the blackjack table in 328 hands.
They bet in round numbers: $1,000 hands (113 of them), $2,000 (60), $3,000 (25) and $5,000 (18) make up most of it.
$1.16 million at blackjack in three days, and that's only what the feed caught.
Blackjack, filed under slots
Duel's feed lists these bets as slots, because they're a third-party game rather than Duel's own blackjack, which the feed logs separately. The payouts give it away. Almost every result is exactly 2x (a win), 1x (a push, stake back) or 0 (a loss), and 20 hands paid exactly 2.5x: a natural blackjack paying 3 to 2. A slot machine doesn't pay like that. A blackjack table does.
The Mines routine
Between blackjack sessions they play Mines, and the routine hardly changes. 150 of their 164 recorded Mines bets were exactly $500 or $1,000. When they cash out, it's almost always at the same few points: 17.67x (54 times), 12.15x (25 times) or 26.51x (10 times).
The best of those came at 01:57 UTC on September 22: $1,999.60 cashed out at 17.67x for $35,328. Four times, twice on each of the two nights, a bet of about $1,000 hit 26.51x for roughly $26,500.
Why the feed makes them look luckier than they are
If you add up every Mines bet in the feed, 777777777777777 wins 97 of 164, which would be impossible at 12x–26x payouts. Their blackjack record looks too good as well: only 43 of 328 recorded hands lost outright. The feed is the reason, not the player. In our data their Mines wins all came through Duel's high-roller feed, and not one Mines loss did. Losses only turn up in the general feed, which doesn't capture every bet. So we see their wins and only some of their losses.
That's why this report doesn't give a three-day profit figure: anything worked out from the feed would be far too high. The number to trust is the leaderboard's all-time +$415,840, on $11.17 million wagered. That's a return of about 3.7% on everything they've bet, which is very good for a casino player but not a miracle.