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The $2.25 wasn't a pay out but her initial bet. This has been covered several times in this thread. Still a steak dinner and $2.25 is a little too small. Give her at the least the max payout.
But why should she suddenly be entitled to $6500 when that's not what she won?
If the register at the grocery store charges me the wrong price for an item, I am refunded my money. I do not get to have all the money in the register due to a software glitch.
Did you read the article?? THE ARTICLE STATES "She was only entitled to her winnings of $2.25". That's what she won! She's not entitled to a cent more! The malfunction was the machine telling her she won $43 mil. Any idiot can tell if you actually won on a slot machine or not. It's not rocket science. She saw an opportunity and tried to get paid out.
How does a "malfunction" like that even happen?
I think it ought to be law that they have to pay out what the machine shows or 50% of the maximum listed payout, whichever is less, if there is a "malfunction". I'll bet there would be a lot fewer "malfunctions". It's up to the casino to keep their machines in working order or to promptly take them out of service if not.
How does a $6500 machine "malfunction" by putting a 43 million win on the screen, yet people think the casino isn't responsible? Could the race of the winner have anything to do with that?
Casinos cheat people. This is why they have so much money. You are welcome to keep gambling in their casino as long as you don't start winning big money. The casinos permit patrons to win some, just enough to keep them coming back for more.
We hear these excuses all the time from the casino. "Malfunction" they say. I say "Bull@#$%!" Pay the lady something besides a stinking steak dinner.
Ok, that's some interesting logic.
You call them cheats but then insinuate that those "cheats" would have possibly paid out the 43million obvious malfunction if the lady had just been white.
You realize that garbage like that just creates so much noise around actual instances of discrimination that it helps to mute the dialogue? There was a communications professor on NPR last week that was talking about how back in the day the tactic was to hide information to cover things up but now it's impossible to keep stuff hidden so you instead bury stuff with lots and lots of garbage.
With that said, it makes me question if you're adding garbage to the pile because you didn't know any better or if you are doing it intentionally for the opposite motivation?
Did you read the article?? THE ARTICLE STATES "She was only entitled to her winnings of $2.25". That's what she won! She's not entitled to a cent more! The malfunction was the machine telling her she won $43 mil. Any idiot can tell if you actually won on a slot machine or not. It's not rocket science. She saw an opportunity and tried to get paid out.
This is from the original article
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Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy
This link mentions that the casino offered her a free dinner as well as a refund of what she originally put into the machine, $2.25.
So that's not really what she 'won' but only what she put into the machine prior to getting that malfunction.
There's no info available on the specifics of what combination of 'wheels' she had on that malfunction bet. We don't know the exact amount of what that payoff would have been had it not malfunctioned.
No winnings, just original bet as per the original article...
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Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00
But why should she suddenly be entitled to $6500 when that's not what she won?
If the register at the grocery store charges me the wrong price for an item, I am refunded my money. I do not get to have all the money in the register due to a software glitch.
On the same point, did you do that if you are under charged for an item or short changed? Basically this is the latter.
And how often do they malfunction? Once a year? Every few months?
Couldn't tell you.
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Originally Posted by oceangaia
The daily take on a slot machine probably exceeds the max payout.
I wouldn't doubt it at all. But I don't see how this is relevant to the issue of malfunctions.
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