Posted on 10/01/2017 1:13:57 PM PDT by Textide
The cards are always stacked in favor of the casino. Casinos exist for one reason, and one reason alone: to take your money. They do it legally, even if it's under cloudy circumstances.
Sorry ma‘am, you didn’t win $43M—there was a slot machine “malfunction” Consider the case of an Alabama man who put $5 into an electronic bingo machine at the Wind Creek Casino in Montgomery, Alabama. The casino is on tribal land operated by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. To the gambler's amazement, "several noises, lights, and sirens were activated" when the machine announced that Jerry Rape had hit The Big One. The bingo machine indicated a jackpot of $459,000, then $918,000, and finally settled on a "payout multiplier" of $1,377,000, according to the gambler's lawsuit.
The casino took Rape's payout ticket and made him wait for about 24 hours before saying no dice. He wasn't getting the monster payout. The machine, he was told by the tribe's casino, had "malfunctioned."
(Excerpt) Read more at arstechnica.com ...
The odds of an actual win are low. The odds of a malfunction are much higher. That means most huge payouts you hear about are malfunctions.
If the machine malfunctioned, it’s their fault for not taking care of their machines. Further, it’s obviously a claim they can make every time they don’t come out on top. That said, ‘prove it’.
This isn’t the first time a casino has claimed a winning machine has “malfunctioned.” Indian giver!
Makes me wonder why anyone would gamble at a casino on tribal land. I don’t even like stopping for gas in those places.
Especially in parts of the world with no oversight of gambling requiring a certain percentage of payouts. Indian casinos are generally free to setup their machines to never payout big, so if one does they know it’s broke.
What the heck?
I never quite understand the legal status of Indian reservations.
I’m not a gambler. But wonder what’s going on. This is not the first time someone has said a machine malfunctioned in indicating a big payout was won.
So the can’t we say that the machine malfunctioned as it continued to accept losing spins of the wheel??? In such case aren’t the gamblers entitled to their money back?
Sounds like Rape got raped.
How does one know when they don't win on any single pull that *that* wasn't a malfunction, too?
-PJ
That’s exactly what I was going to post.
Anybody gambling in a Indian Casino is making a mistake, worse than typical casino gambling. Their regular payout rates are typically lower.
BTW, how do we know a $5 win wasn’t a malfunction that was supposed to be $5 mill?
I never gamble because I know the games are rigged. I guess it’s even worse than I though.
It's long past time to eliminate tribal lands. It's long past time they live by the same laws as the rest of us US citizens.
Hey, I am oppressed! This white gal isn't allowed to live on cheap land, get government freebies for skin color of ancestors and open a gambling hall. Whaaa! Where's my reparations for the Indians killing my gggreat grandparents?
It's true. The neighbors saw a fire and came to see what was up. Found the girls hiding and the parents scalped by the Indians. I demand REPARATIONS!
THOUGHT.
Machine “malfunction”; yet if he lost, we all know the tribe would have happily refunded his loss, right?
They can’t “Indian give” a jackpot that they never intended to have to give in the first place. It’s never been anything more than a tried and true advertising gimmick and come-on designed to entice slot machine junkies.
I’ve always felt kind of sorry for suckers who think they can win anything in any casino.
No joke. I always catch a vibe that I don’t like on Indian reservations.
But where we gonna get our drugs from?
the mafia would never have imagined a gambling entity given free reign to do whatever they wanted...
shame on us for allowing the Indians to do this....
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