Quote Originally Posted by Andy View Post
The animation has nothing to do with what you get. The item that you get is determined before the animation starts using a an logarithm that pick it at random taking into consideration the odds for all the items that are available at the Casino. Then the items to be displayed are chosen and the animation started and it stops on the predetermined item. This is also true for any place that you pick a card in the game.
This is correct.

I hate the way the casino wheel does that also. I've provided this feedback to the devs.