Harrah’s Owes the Money

There are constantly problems with the large jackpots that slot machines pay out. There are electronic problems all the time that show that a certain jackpot should be paid out and then it turns out that the slot machine made an error and now it shouldn’t be. Some people take whatever the casino offers them in those cases and then move along and forget about it. Others choose to take the casino to court and say that they want whatever it is that the slot machine says they won.

On the slot machines it clearly states that in the case of a glitch with the machine that the casino is not responsible for paying it. But this does not stop people from fighting it anyway. But once in a while you hear a case where you end up thinking that perhaps this person has a case, and therefore the casino should pay – and that case is Angela Domino.

Domino was playing the nickel slots in May 2007 at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City. She hit the jackpot on the slot machine and it said that she had won $86,000. However, the casino then told her that someone else had just won it at another casino and therefore they were only paying her $20,000. They said that the slot machine should have reset itself, but that it didn’t.

She took them to court and an arbitration panel just ruled that Harrah’s owes her the other $66,000 that she is due. However, as the ruling is non binding, either side can reject it so she probably won’t be seeing her money anytime soon.