Casino Says No to Slot Machine Pay Out 

The Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida, is under fire for not paying out a player on one of their slot machines. Bill Seebeck, a resident of Daytona Beach, Florida, said that he was playing at a slot machine when it said that he had won $166,666,666.65. The casino then told him otherwise. 

Seebeck was playing the Bally Ultimate Party Spin Slot Machine at $4 a spin. After playing roughly $80 he received a surprise when it looked as though his slot machine had hit and he was now a millionaire. He says that he was thrilled, and could not believe his good luck. He says that he was in shock – but absolutely thrilled. 

Then casino managers came over and roped off the slot machine. Seebeck says that he sat there for an hour trying to figure out what to do with his winnings first, and then the casino managers came over and told him he had not won. They said that the slot machine had malfunctioned and that it only has a top payout of $199,000. 

They then asked him to sign a form that said that he was not entitled to the payout and that it was a malfunction of the slot machine. Seebeck said no and hired a lawyer instead. He says that not only was he mad that they didn’t want to pay out – but if the slot machine really only had a payout of that small amount then they knew immediately that this was not a winning pay out. However, they left him there for an hour with everyone around him thinking that he was a big winner – so they got the publicity out of it, but then didn’t want to pay on it.