I always wonder when it says ‘malfunction voids all pays’.
How would a player know if it’s really a malfunction or just the Casino not paying? Many jackpots are probably not paid using this excuse.
If the casino does not end up making a better offer to this person they risk alienating a number of potential gamblers. From a PR campaign perspective, it would be bad business to not settle this more favorably.
Indian givers?.............
OK, absurd as that is with a state that has a lottery, here’s what happened.
Those slot machines would only have gone into the type of taverns that already had pull tabs, a form of gambling, not your high-class, family-type restaurants. The antis also didn’t want gambling in their neighborhood.
But here’s the real catcher: the Indians can build casinos only on ‘reservation’ land. So what they do is buy up a few buildings on a block and donate it to the ‘reservation.’ Voila, instant (FULL) gambling where they want it.
I don’t gamble and really don’t care for it. But allowing slots in taverns where they are already allowed to gamble would have put the first chink in the armor of an absurd, tax-free enterprise on lands where the people COULD IMPLEMENT SHARIA LAW, if they so choose.
The people lost. The Indians won. Their casinos continue to pop up. The idiots in Seattle think they won something. Glad I left.
Given this, you’d have to be an idiot to play at one of those casinos.
This guy is an ass hat .. the same type of malfunctions occur in Vegas Casinos and guess what ... they don’t pay off for the malfunction either ... he should have taken the $2500 ...
now he gets squat ..
Sovereign Immunity sure does not work for tax free tobacco sales.
I actually agree with the casino. The max jackpot on the machine was $2500 and states as such. The machine showed he won $1.6M. Not the same as if the machine was able to pay that amount.
A glitch? What the rigged machined didn’t work as it was supposed to? Perhaps they should go back to weighted dice. The casino is responsible for its machines. It should have insurance to cover liablilty of gliches.
Think about it the other way: if you gambled with money you didn’t have (perhaps a bad check that initally passed), would the casino accept an excuse about a glitch in calculating your bank balance? Or would they take you out back and scalp you?
Additionally, the bank error analogy is erroueous since there was not a wager placed to win that amount.
I agree with the posters who say that NOT paying out the jackpot will probably cost the casino more in bad publicity and lost revenue than just paying it.
Also, a treaty is a treaty. If we granted them Sovereign Immunity, then they have Sovereign Immunity. Don’t like it? Stay off the reservation.
He should sue the slot manufacturer, IGT. A billion-dallar company might pay off just to avoid the bad publicity.
If they have sovereign immunity how come they get to vote in US elections?
I’m betting (pun) the tribe in question pays out the amount in an out of court settlement.
Thats the smart move from a business viewpoint. Casino’s that get the rep they don’t pay when they lose don’t survive.
This isn’t the first time they have ripped of patrons. They should have to post a big advertisenment stating “We are Indian givers”
Methinks the whole “malfunction” thing is just a BS excuse to not pay up.
A legit malfunction voids the payout...but how does one prove it did or did not “malfunction?”
A malfunction is probably simply a malfunction in the casino’s bank account and their desire to part with the cash.
TankerKC Rule #1: Don't frequent casinos.
What do Tribes with casinos have? The Tribal Council?
They'll just vote you off the Rez.
He should've taken the $2500 because he didn't win the amount shown,
and does not deserve it.