{"id":2975,"date":"2016-10-30T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2016-11-01T00:55:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:55:29","slug":"slots-malfunction-erases-womans-43-million-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/slots-malfunction-erases-womans-43-million-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Slots Malfunction Erases Woman’s $43 Million Jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"resorts-world-slots\"Katrina Bookman thought she won a life-changing slots payout in August when she hit a $43 million prize. <\/p>\n

But according to ABC News<\/a>, Resorts World in New York claims that her windfall was the result of a machine malfunction.<\/p>\n

Resorts World offered Bookman a free steak dinner to ease the news that she won’t become a multi-millionaire. But this doesn’t seem quite like justice for a mother-of-four who thought that she’d instantly achieved financial security.<\/p>\n

“I kept thinking about my family,” Bookman said. <\/p>\n

Her excitement quickly turned to confusion when casino personnel asked her to come back the following day.<\/p>\n

“I said ‘what did I win?'” recalled Bookman. The staff responded, “You didn’t win nothing.” <\/p>\n

The New York State Gaming Commission investigated the win and determined that the slot machine Bookman was playing malfunctioned. The game has since been pulled from the floor for repairs.<\/p>\n

The exact game that she was playing is only programmed to pay a top prize of $6,500. So it makes sense why Resorts World didn’t pay her anything on the win.<\/p>\n

\"katrina-bookman-slots\"Nevertheless, Bookman has hired a lawyer and plans to sue the company to collect all or some of her advertised win.<\/p>\n

“The machine takes your money when you lose,” Bookman’s lawyer told ABC. “It ought to pay it when you win.” <\/p>\n

Boookman is hoping that her lawyer can come through for her on this case, which is potentially worth millions of dollars. <\/p>\n

“I feel I should win the max and I will treat him (lawyer) to a steak dinner,” she said.<\/p>\n

There’s a legal precedent for a case like this, and it’s not good for Bookman.<\/p>\n

Pauline McKee, a grandmother who won $41.8 million at Iowa’s Isle Casino<\/a>, didn’t receive her jackpot due to a machine error. The Iowa Supreme Court sided with the casino because the game in question, Miss Kitty, is only programmed to pay 10,000 credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katrina Bookman thought she won a life-changing slots payout in August when she hit a $43 million prize. But according to ABC News, Resorts World in New York claims that her windfall was the result of a machine malfunction. Resorts World offered Bookman a free steak dinner to ease the news that she won’t become …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,12],"tags":[765,763,324,764,688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}