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Gambler Wins...$42.9 million (or -20 Cents or $2.25); is Offered Steak Dinner

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 02 2016, @04:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-just-won-the-Jack-Not...-oh-wait dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A Queens gambler thought she hit it big until managers at the Resorts World Casino said her $43 million slot machine win was a technical glitch — and tried to pay her off with a steak dinner. Katrina Bookman was already thinking about what she would do with all that money back in August as she took a selfie beside the slot machine that said: Printing Cash Ticket. $42,949,672.76.

[...] "Upon being notified of the situation, casino personnel were able to determine that the figure displayed on the penny slot was the result of an obvious malfunction - a fact later confirmed by the New York State Gaming Commission," a Resorts statement said. "Machine malfunctions are rare, and we would like to extend our apologies to Ms. Bookman for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Money from the casino, like state lottery proceeds, help grow the state's educaton[sic] fund. Officials said payout maximums are put in place to protect that money.

Although the machine's screen displayed the multimillion-dollar jackpot, the printed ticket showed $2.25.

Is it a coincidence that 2^32=4294967296? Full story at NY Daily News.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @07:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @07:56PM (#421810)

    I had to do the best I could without a requirement spec from marketing. Also, I was in a rush because I was called in to do some last minuting coding for the European Mars lander project.

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  • (Score: 1) by Zipf on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:14AM

    by Zipf (2400) on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:14AM (#421965)

    I don't think a coding error (which I am fairly sure this is) is a malfunction. A gamble is an inappropriately priced financial instrument with random but defined payout. The fact this happened means the casino has not been making good on the advertised terms. To her and all other players of the same software.

    I would like to see a class action suit.