Guy Wins $5.15 Million Jackpot, Other Guy Unplugs Slot Machine

on every slot machine in a casino it says "malfunction voids all pays and plays"... this was not a malfunction... this was a deliberate act! he'll win in court lol

one of the few times I'm rooting for the lawyer in a law suit

Happens to me really often too! I'll hit a Jackpot at an Indian casino and the Chief unplugs the machine and offers me some fire water, some colored beads and wampum...
We share a peace pipe and I leave with a young squaw.

Aren't these slot machines tested randomly? (I know they are stateside.) If so, why didn't that random test show a problem? (Yes, I know it could have failed since it was last tested.)

I guess what makes me suspicious is that it was discovered to have failed only after it started paying. (Do they consider any payout, or any payout over a certain amount to be a machine failure?)

I think the casino should eat the "loss;" after all, the house gambled and, even with the odds in the their favor, they lost. Pay up.

Obviously he did win something or the quarters would not have spilled out. So even if it wasn't 5 Million (and I agree with the others that it would have been a hand pay) why would they have unplugged it? The lights and bells could have been going off for a lesser amount and he may not have been an avid gambler so thought he won big. Either way it should be investigated. But I don't believe it was the BIG one.

sorry..they don't pay jackpots out of the hopper....obviously not big enough......unless paying with gold coins...lol....slot attendant was wrong to pull the plug....bad for business even if machine malfunctioned....but he was told to ....the slot supervisor should be fired...the hopper doesn't hold but a couple hundred dollars in quarters.....this guy never won the jackpot unless alarm lights on the machine went off calling the attendant....its all computerized internally and the led screen would have shown that the jackpot was hit...j.t....

I would have been arrested.

there has to be video of the win and the subsequent unplugging...if the guy can get a copy. I'm sure it's been destroyed.

Happened to me in Reno. I put in 3.00 and the machine hit the jackpot of 50,000. All the sirens and lights went off. It took about 5 minutes for an attendant to show. By this time a large crowd was all around. Just as the attendant showed the reels began to spin in every direction. So, they said it was a malfunction, forget about the fact that it did not begin spinning like that until 5 minutes passed. I asked for a manager but he never showed. The mechanics came over and shut the machine down. I asked for the people from Carson to be brought in. Again, they never showed.
I had no time to continue waiting since my train was pulling into the station in a few moments. I left my name and number with the floor supervisor. They never called. I tried to speak to someone several times over 2 weeks, but no one claimed they knew of the incident. Long story short, I never got my jackpot and last time in Reno, the casino was closed. Hmmm, I wonder why... I don't believe the State of Nevada really does what they say they do. I have not put another cent into any machine in the State of Nevada!

I`d go stand on the plug and be ready to fight. $5 million can buy a lot of medical care. I hope this incident makes the national headlines.That casino deserves a financial black eye as does the sleazy jerk who pulled the plug (only not so financial in his case)

buried alive !!!!!!!!!!!!! in quarters !!!!!!!!!!!! what away to go, man that would hurt lol and this guys an attorney, i hope i never get him appointed to me he's hard to belive

If I hit the jackpot and I saw employees coming towards me, I'd stand guard, post my friends and/or family around me, take a picture of the damn thing and beat the crap outta anyone who got near the plug.

andreas vasiadis .. or anyone else:

When something like that happens, don't just walk away .. IMMEDIATELY call the local gaming commission.

I have done this on several occasions in Las Vegas. They are normally at the casino within 30 minutes and begin investigating exactly what happened.

Guy said it happened to him, but also said the machine disappeared. Most likely that was a malfunctioning machine. Most likely, so was the one in the featured story. Casinos make huge amounts of money from people on those machines. Paying out on a jackpot like that is the best publicity possible and usually free. To not pay out on any large jackpot costs them a lot more than paying the jackpot would. It is most likely that the machines did malfunction.

I HOPE HE WINS! HOW WOULD AN EMPLOYEE KNOW IT WOULD BE MALFUNCTIONED ANYWAY. THOSE MACHINES ARE SET TO BE A RANDOM PAYOUT. IF I WAS A JURY MEMBER, I WOULD LET THE GUY HAVE HIS MONEY AND NOT ALLOW THE ORIGINAL CASINO OWNER TO BE ALLOWED TO OPERATE. IT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT THEY REALLY JUST WANT TO TAKE YOUR MONEY AND PAY OUT THE LEAST POSSIBLE. NO TOLERANCE!

Virgin Islands - there's virtually no law or justine in those places. He won't collect!! Same with the indian casinos. Indian casinos are in a diffent country (nation). I wouldn't play in those places. I only play in casino's directly on U.S. continental land. The only thing that the American (on continental U.S. land) casinos owners do is remove a winning slot machine. I've seen this and numerous friends have seen it as well.
Buddy

keri:

The employee that pulled plug gets 10% cut.

I agree with George; if the machine had actually HIT the jackpot - it wouldn't start paying out quarters, it would shut down and flash an attendant payout - jackpot on the screen. I've won a few jackpots in my time (nothing near a million) and they ALWAYS do that on a jackpot win. I have a hard time believing the attorney on this one.
And yes, these machines do malfunction, I had one malfunction on me and didn't pay when it should have - there is a sign on every machine that says a malfunction voids the win. The casino, in my case, paid me the couple of hundred, but promptly unplugged the machine and moved it later.

DON'T BE SO SECRETIVE! WHAT CASINO????