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 ...
I agree. If they want to go pool their money and buy property and have their little “nation”, fine. But run it yourself, not subsidized by me.
I play allot at the Inn of the Mountain God’s in Ruidoso NM but I only play poker or 21.
Talk about "Indian givers."
trying suing the indian casino if you happen to fall there or eat rotten food at the buffet....they don’t even have to respond....
not only are subsidizing them, we allow them to “buy” land off the rez and then to build tax free casinos to bilk the poor public....
So how do you know if you were supposed to win when you lose? Does the machine malfunction when you lose but you were really supposed to win?
If you cannot trust casinos, who can you trust?
LOL!
The epi I saw was with a mechanical slot machine. Supposedly when they opened it, one of the wheels had a nutted bolt fitted into one of the wheels so that it never stop there, prohibiting it from ever hitting a jackpot.
This is from 2014.
Casino speak with fork tongue.
5.56mm
Navajo nation police officers get busted out of jurisdiction, in uniform in a police vehicle, driving drunk in Arizona on a pretty regular basis and nothing ever happens to them. Now that one of them has actually killed somebody, I wonder how this is going to go. It’s probably already signed into law that they don’t have to follow our laws. I’m betting it will be turned over to some tribal council and he’ll get sentenced to time-served for the weekend he spent in jail “because he’s already been through enough”. Anybody who’s savvy on these laws, please speak up.
Jerry got raped
You’re right not to trust the gas in those places. Off-spec, spilled/recovered, transmix and otherwise spoiled product gets re-refined and sold through those places.
I totally believe this. Now that it’s all electronic, I’m sure it’s lines of programming code that never allow the Big One to hit, just a few small payouts to make people think they’re winning something. This is obvious. You make billions of dollars by signing checks on the back, not the front.
Casino: $166M Win Was Slot Malfunction (2009)
$11 Million jackpot a malfunction, casino says (2010)
Casino patron upset when told $1.17 million jackpot was due to malfunction (2002)
Queens Woman sues casino that offered her steak instead of $43 million prize for jackpot 2017)
Jackpot winner left between Hard Rock, hard place (2006)
Slot machine jackpot called a mistake (2003)
Beaverton [Oregon] woman hit $8M jackpot, gets no money (2015)
-PJ
Shame on him for gambling there. He should have known better (and now he does). Note: Vegas does this too with big slot machine jackpots.
All gambling machines malfunction on large payouts according to management.
Note aside: I once went to a restaurant in Gallup that had every condiment, every spice and extra pitchers of ice tea and water at the end of each table. It took up a lot of room. A local told me that was because the wait staff was so damn lazy that they wouldn’t take care of the customers.
Which conservative principle are you espousing here?
Most suits against an Indian tribe are a lot like suing a foreign country:
“I’m suing the King of Holland for serving me bad pizza...”
Yeah, good luck with that.
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