We’d Like to Pay You but We Can’t

If a woman wins a suit against a casino for a faulty slot machine it would open a can of worms for all kinds of problems. The way it stands now if you are playing a slot machine and it malfunctions, you do not win the amount of money that it claims that you do. If you are playing at a slot machine and it has a max pay out of $10,000 and it comes up and says that you won $1 million then you don’t get anything.
 
All of the slot machines have a warning on them that say that the casino is not responsible for malfunctions. This is the way that it always is. However, when a slot machine malfunctions and you are told that you are not getting that million dollars that you just thought you were it can make you a little cranky.
 
Cathy Torres of Las Vegas, New Mexico says that she won more than $2.6 million on the slot machine that she was playing but that the casino refused to pay her saying that it was a glitch in the machine. She says she watched the icons line up just right and the sirens went off – and the slot machine said that she won $2,685,666.
 
The casino told her it was a malfunction and that they would not pay her. She is suing them for breach of contract and violation of unfair trade practices. She says that she wants them to explain to her how a computer chip malfunctions. But this is a common complaint. There are a lot of times when this is what is going wrong and people want to know if the casino is not being held accountable for a faulty slot machine pay out, then why should they be charged to play them. They put money in and the casinos keep it – they say that is just not fair.

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