{"id":3455,"date":"2017-04-10T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2017-04-10T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:39:45","slug":"would-jan-flato-have-won-100k-without-marina-navarro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/would-jan-flato-have-won-100k-without-marina-navarro\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Jan Flato have Won $100k without Marina Navarro?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jan-flato-slots\"An ethical debate has sparked up after gambler Jan Flato saw his friend, Marina Navarro, walk off with a $100,000 slots jackpot after he covered the spin. As we discussed, Flato is justifiably angry because he paid for the spin<\/a>, yet Navarro gets to keep all of the money just because she pushed the button.<\/p>\n

Many commenters on 7News Boston<\/a> believe that Navarro should’ve, at the very least, shared her jackpot with Flato. <\/p>\n

Poster BK_6 writes: “Seems as if the rule should be changed. Sadly, rules are rules no matter how foolish they are. She is truly a piece of work.”<\/p>\n

Tucker writes: “What a total witch. He should sue her. If I were on a jury, she’d lose.”<\/p>\n

Vee comments: “WOW what a friend – NOT. She should have had the decency to split it 50\/50 with him. Damn right, I won’t let anybody push a button for me on a slot machine!”<\/p>\n

\"marina-navarro-facebook-slots\"Keep in mind that these are some of the less-harsh comments written about Navarro, and there are far worse. You can see more in the Facebook caption to the right.<\/p>\n

I think that she should’ve split the jackpot with him 50\/50, if nothing else. Even better is if Navarro would’ve given Flato the entire amount and let him decide if he wanted to be generous.<\/p>\n

But there’s another side to all of this, and it has to do with the random number generator (RNG).<\/p>\n

\"marina-navarro-slots-jackpot\"As I’ve discussed in the past, a slot machine RNG<\/a> cycles through millions of number combinations within seconds. Any millisecond extra that you take before pushing the spin button will produce an entirely different result.<\/p>\n

In Flato’s case, he asked Navarro to make the first spin for him for “good luck.”<\/p>\n

If Flato had just gone ahead and pushed the button himself, it would’ve occurred seconds before Navarro and not resulted in the $100,000 jackpot. Even if he’d pushed it close to the same point, it still would’ve been off by milliseconds, which is just enough to produce different results.<\/p>\n

Does this clear the morality of Navarro not giving Flato any money?<\/p>\n

No, absolutely not. But the $100k jackpot also never would’ve happened if Navarro hadn’t pushed the spin button at the exact time she did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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