pit boss heuristics
Earn your seat at the table.
The cage doesn't open for data miners. Build trust like a real US whale: cache comp cookies at the partner hotels, look like a Vegas tourist (en-US / America/Los_Angeles), and wander the floor before you approach. Then read the VIP ledger.
1 · Activate your operator token
2 · Prefetch comp cookies (partner hotels)
3 · Fingerprint: look like a US/LA tourist
detected locale … · timezone … — spoof en-US + America/Los_Angeles (Playwright locale/timezoneId, or set Accept-Language + tz cookie).
4 · Floor surveillance: wander, scroll & idle
Move your mouse around, scroll this page a few times, linger a few seconds, then:
5 · Cage clearance: solve the proof-of-work
The cage makes every client burn CPU on an ALTCHA hashcash challenge before the ledger opens — a stand-in for the PoW walls real sites use to price-out high-rate scraping.
Complete all five steps (in your scraper) to unlock /api/casino/ledger.