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A customer at a Colorado casino was offered a free breakfast and $23 in lieu of the $42.9 million jackpot she won at a penny slot machine. Gaming authorities and officials at Fortune Valley Casino say the machine malfunctioned and that its top payout is only $251,000, but winner Louise Chavez says she's owed the full amount named on the machine.
She should get the $43M, and then the casino needs to go after their insurance and the machine maker for the money.
How many times do they malfunction and NOT pay out?
04-01-2010, 06:16 PM
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As long as the machine legitimatly malfunctioned and it is not an April 1st joke, she should take her free meal and $23 and get the hell out of there - greedy I say. It does not even pay 43 million.
"I just felt like, you know, I was being cheated," said Chavez, who earns $12,000 a year as a home assistant. "I was being cheated out of the money that I won." What the hell is she doing in a casino earning that kind of money. She should pay the casino money for being a pain in the #$%^&
Assuming the machine wasn't posted with something like "The management reserves the right to pay you less than the total jackpot you win if we feel like it" then she's entitled to the entire $43 million. The management has their own ideas of how much they're willing to pay out on each machine, but if the maximum isn't posted the terms of the contract between the gambler and the casino is not limited.
All machines have a "malfunction" clause, and it's fairly obvious when the malfunction awards a prize that the machine does not have the option of paying out.
It would still be nice if they gave her the jackpot of $251,000 though.
04-01-2010, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Jill61
It was a PENNY slot machine. She was putting PENNIES in it. If she put 100 PENNIES in it, she still only spent A DOLLAR "gambling". You're such a charmer.
If i'm not mistaking, all slots state on the machine that "malfunctions voids all pays and plays". This is the contract between the casino and player. Now its up to inspectors of the gaming commission to inpsect the machine and determine if it was a malfunction. If the machines top payout is 251K than it is almost a certainty the machine malfunction if the amount showed she won 42 million. In this case the money she put in would be returned.
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