A woman whose slot machine announced that she won about 43 million was told to return the following day. When she showed up they offered her a steak dinner and $2.25. They said the machine malfunctioned and the penny slot she was on could only payout $6500.
You know what? If it was a malfunction, give her the $6500. $2,25 and a steak dinner? Why would you even offer that? It’s insulting.
I was with the casino until the steak dinner part. That’s just… ridiculous.
Katrina Bookman in August posed for a selfie at New York’s Resorts World Casino in front of the “Sphinx Slot Machine,” its screen promising her a grand prize of $42,949,672.76. When she attempted to collect her cash, however, casino employees told her she hadn’t actually won and offered her a complimentary steak dinner and $2.25 — the prize they claim her slot machine actually should have delivered.
“You can’t claim a machine is broken because you want it to be broken. Does that mean it wasn’t inspected? Does it mean it wasn’t maintained?” Ripka told CNN. “And if so, does that mean that people that played there before (Bookman) had zero chance of winning?”
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Good point.
She Got Screwwwwed. Are they going to Reimburse the $ 500,000 She Probably Spent Celebrating that Night ?
They owe her $6500.
That’s bull shit, go get a lawyer.
She probably would win in court
Aren’t the casinos regulated by the states? Wouldn’t their machines have to meet regulatory requirements to be allowed to work? Every time I fill up my gas tank, I see a sticker on the gas pump that says the county I live in had inspected said machine. Why not the same with slots?
lawyer up, they have laws on those piece of shit gambling machines.
Casinos and gambling is one form of legalized theft.
Sure it’s a game of chance, the odds are you’ll leave with empty pockets.
The house sets the rules, programs the machines and the house always wins.
Every one of those damned things has a sticker that says “Machine Malfunction Voids Payouts”.
Too bad SUCKER.
You lost the second you put your money in.
Just in case anyone was wondering, the continuous process of tearing down casinos and building new ones on top of them isn’t funded by paying winners.
If you want to leave a casino with a million dollars, go in with two million dollars.
Wow that thing I thought was an ad really must work, not the comment making 10,000 a day from home in your pjs but the o me then at says visa is can’t stop you
“…had zero chance of winning?”
Duh,that’s the description of their business model.
Good luck. May as well try to get warranty replacement on lottery tickets.
She went from manic to depressive REALLY quick.
NO JURY IS GOING TO SIDE WITH A CASINO!
Malfunctioning or not, it’s their responsibility to maintain those machines, not the customer.
They should have offered-up a lot more than a steak and $2.25, because a jury is going to determine she deserved a lot more than that.
Better settle this while you still have options…..
I used an ATM to get a few and my receipt said my balance was 43 million and some odd dollars. Wow.
Wish I had kept that paper.
Just name one lawyer who wouldn’t have been there any time day or night in his PJ’s for that pay out.
“Wow that thing I thought was an ad really must work, not the comment making 10,000 a day from home in your pjs but the o me then at says visa is can’t stop you”
what?
Corona Nice catch! lol
I can empathize. We take a chance on the bastids we send to Washington expecting a big pay out in a better life This time.
Then someone points out the small sticker on the foundations of every government building:
“Political Machine Malfunction Voids Payout” .
Anyone actually believes the casino would lose must have been asleep the past forty years.
They have an ironclad case.
Hell, I’ve put money in a vending machine in Vegas and still lost.
It cost $6500 to get her hair done, give her $12,000 and tell her to go back to the hood.