Posted on 05/19/2024 4:51:46 PM PDT by lowbridge
A New Jersey woman said she won more than $2 million on an Atlantic City slot machine — but the casino isn’t coughing up the dough, leaving the septuagenarian “very anxious” about being unable to help her homeless son.
Roney Beal, 72, claims she hit it big on a Wheel of Fortune slot machine at Bally’s Casino in February, but when she went to collect her winnings, the casino claimed the jackpot was due to a technical glitch and therefore didn’t count, she told The Post Saturday.
“I just feel it’s not right that they don’t pay out,” Beal said.
“What’s the use in playing then?”
After losing $1,000 on various machines that day, Beal revisited the Wheel of Fortune slot machine.
When she gave it another six or seven spins, she said she hit the jackpot.
She said she eventually got the words “wild,” “wild x2” and spin on a diagonal on the slot area of the machine. This entitled her to a free spin on the Wheel of Fortune wheel on the top of the machine.
After spinning, the wheel ended up on the word “Jackpot” with a dollar sign — and she said she heard the words “You’ve won.”
Then, 3-D gold coins came out and a blue light went off, she said.
“And then the people behind me got up and they’re like, ‘oh my god, oh my god.’ This guy says, ‘lady you’re a millionaire. A millionaire,'” she said.
But when she used a call button to summon help, a tilt message popped up, indicating the machine was unplayable due to an error or malfunction.
A Bally’s employee told her she didn’t win before telling her to leave the casino.
Beal’s attorney, Mike Di Croce, said he is preparing a legal complaint against Bally’s and
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Don’t the casinos prohibit you bringing in any camera or video camera ? How’s a gambler to prove anything ?
We git the same problem with voting sites prohibiting cameras. You can’t prove you saw cheating.
There's one born every minute.
They’ve done this a number of times.
Someone wins big in “progressive slots,” and the casino just says “it was a software error,” and doesn’t pay.
Las Vegas is a big scam.
Just subpoena their own video. (Of course, I suppose all angles will be magically glitched out, but I’m sure a jury will be hungry to find against a casino.)
every time you lose at a casino, how do you know it was not a glitch and you should have won 1.2 million dollars ?
I have wanted to go to vegas or reno or wherever, but I want to drop quarters into a real mechanical machine with an arm.
I trust video machines as far as my current president joe.
Casinos are “The houses that Social Security builds”
It’s like a carnival game
“What’s the use in playing then?”
As I understand it, they don’t prohibit bringing cameras, but they do prohibit one from taking pictures on the casino floor.
I’m sorry for this lady’s experience. I would suspect, once you have truly felt like a millionaire, someone with more money than you ever dreamed of possessing, that feeling of ownership stays with you for the rest of your life.
If the casino never pays up, she will see herself as having been robbed of a million, and many of her friends will as well. They will always suspect “She must have been paid something! I’ll bet she has several hundred thou in the bank and is just too cheap to move uptown. Too cheap to lend a friend a mere Grand or two.
The matter is investigated internally and always rule against the player. Because the tribe looks after themselves.
there. fixed it.
Gamblers are not aware that, by state law, casinos are legally
required to give back only a small percentage of what’s wagered.
When you walk into a casino the odds are already stacked against you.
“I have wanted to go to vegas or reno or wherever, but I want to drop quarters into a real mechanical machine with an arm. I trust video machines as far as my current president joe.”
I think the same way, although after watching some “breaking Vegas” type videos, it seems that the later models of the mechanical slots were also run by IC Chips, and thus just as rigged as today’s all-digital systems.
If the, “out of order”, sign was not visible BEFORE she began playing, they owe her the money. She should not only sue the casino, but the casino flunkey who threw her out
Just sue them for 10 million for pain and suffering, they’ll settle for the 2 mil because if this gets in front of any jury the casino will definitely lose.
When you walk into a casino the odds are already stacked against you.
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