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Katrina Bookman took a selfie with the machine displaying the huge sum.Source:Twitter
CALL it a steak in exchange for a $56 million mistake.
A slot machine told her she hit a massive jackpot, but the casino claimed it was a machine error and offered her a meal on the house. Now, she's taking this to court. Although casino marketing makes it out to appear that you can win big, in reality, it is the casinos that do most of the winning. Sure, there is always someone who takes home a huge jackpot, and the casino marketing team will spin that into a piece of PR that causes.
Katrina Bookman captured national attention last year when she played a 'Sphinx Slot Machine' at Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York, and it appeared as though she'd won $43 million - which would have been the largest jackpot ever won on the slots in U.S. She excitedly snapped a selfie with the screen, believing her life was forever changed. Katrina Bookman was playing penny slots when the screen indicated she had won a $42.9M payout. But when she tried to collect, the casino told her it was all a big mistake. View the profiles of people named Katrina Brookman. Join Facebook to connect with Katrina Brookman and others you may know. Facebook gives people the.
A New York woman thought she had hit it big at a Resorts World Casino slot machine — until she was told that the near $56 million figure displayed was a technical glitch ... and was offered her a free steak dinner instead of the mega-jackpot.
Katrina Bookman visited the Queens, New York casino in late August and started playing on one of the floor’s poker machines. According to the New York Daily News, the machine on which Bookman was playing flashed $42,949,642.76 (A$56 million) and read “Printing cash ticket.” The excited mother-of-four thought she had won and took a video next to the machine.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Bookman told the Daily News. “My body went numb.”
But instead of being able to collect her reported winnings immediately, Bookman says she was escorted off the floor by Resorts World employees and told to come back the next day.
When she returned to the casino, Bookman recalled, “I said what did I win?”
“The casino rep said ‘You didn’t win nothing’,” reports ABC. The only prize the casino offered her was a steak dinner.
Representatives from the New York State Gaming Commission (which run the Queens gaming facility) were called in to tell Bookman that the machine had malfunctioned, and she was not entitled to a payout. According to the commission and the casino, any malfunction makes the game — and any jackpot — null and void. The poker machine was pulled from the casino floor and fixed after the incident.
“There was nothing wrong with it when I was playing the machine,” Bookman said. “How do we know when there’s a problem with it? Once I hit something, now you’re going to say it’s a problem. I totally don’t think that was fair.”
But a spokesman for Resorts World told FoxNews.com that the near $43 million (A$56 million) figure flashed on the screen doesn’t tell the full story.
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The machine on which Bookman was playing has a maximum payout of US$6500 (A$8400), which the casino says is clearly advertised.
The casino also claims that before any notifications of a larger prize appeared, Bookman first printed a ticket from the machine for US$2.25 (A$2.90). The much larger figure only appeared later, after she had finished putting money into the slot.
“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,” said a Resorts World spokesman in a statement to FoxNews.com.
“After explaining the circumstances to Ms. Bookman, we offered to pay her the correct amount that was shown on the printed ticket. Machine malfunctions are rare, and we would like to extend our apologies to Ms. Bookman for any inconvenience this may have caused.”
According to Resort World, the highest poker machine jackpot ever recorded in any casino is $39.7 million (A$51.8 million) — and that was in a multi-property, progressive jackpot game. Still, the Queens casino, which has over 3000 poker machines games, says it pays out more than $50 million (A$65.3 million) daily to individual winners.
But Bookman believes she was wronged and plans to sue the casino.
“She’s upset obviously,” Alan Ripka, Bookman’s lawyer, told the Daily News. “She thought her life and family’s life would have been changed forever.”
Ripka said he believes the casino should honour the advertised payout but Resort Worlds says that would be against New York State law gaming regulations — thus the steak dinner was offered.
“You can’t have it both ways,” Ripka said. “They’re saying that the machine was broken. Doesn’t that mean a place can claim a machine is broken every time somebody wins?”
On Wednesday, a spokesman for Resorts World would not confirm whether a lawsuit had been served.
Alan Ripka was not immediately available for comment.
This article originally appeared in Fox News and was reproduced with permission.
Katrina Bookman lawsuit: A Queens woman files a suit against a local casino after refusing to pay a $43m jackpot they claim was an error.
Katrina Bookman, a Queens woman has launched a lawsuit against New York’s Resorts World Casino after contending that the casino offered her a free steak dinner instead of $43 million jackpot earnings.
It was while Bookman was playing at the Rockaway Beach venue last August that Bookman took a screenshot in front of the ‘Sphinx Slot Machine’ showing she’d just won the grand prize of f $42,949,672.76.
Easier said than done.
When bookman went to collect her cash, casino employees told her she hadn’t actually won and offered her a complimentary steak dinner and $2.25 — the prize they claim her slot machine actually should have delivered.
Bookman’s lawyer, Alan Ripka, told CNN Money his ‘outraged’ client turned down the offer. Instead, the mother of four filed a lawsuit against the casino off Rockaway Boulevard in the Queens County Supreme Court on Wednesday after repeated attempts of an an out-of-court settlement were snubbed.
Ripka is seeking $43 million in damages from the resort. The suit also takes aim at Genting New York LLC, the casino’s parent company, and International Game Technology — the maker of the slot machine — for alleged common-law negligence, breach of contract and negligent representation, according to the 17-page complaint.
‘You can’t claim a machine is broken because you want it to be broken. Does that mean it wasn’t inspected? Does it mean it wasn’t maintained?’ Ripka told CNN. ‘And if so, does that mean that people that played there before (Bookman) had zero chance of winning?’
A resort spokesperson had previously claimed Bookman’s win was the ‘result of an obvious malfunction,’ noting the Sphinx Slot Machine’s highest payout was $6,500.
Which is to wonder, instead of offering Bookman a scant $2.25 why didn’t it offer the woman who had played the game in good faith at the very least $6500?
Adding to the fissure, the state Gaming Commission also dismissedthe win as the machine displays a sign stating ‘Malfunctions void all pays and plays.’
The machine was taken out of service, repaired and put back a day later, the commission said.
Which is again to wonder, if it was malfunctioned, what was doing it being put out for the public who played the machine in good faith and who in hindsight never stood a chance of winning, despite the casino happily taking their money.
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Since lodging her complaint, Bookman alleges the entire ordeal has caused her ‘mental anguish’ and resulted in a financial setback because she did not have ‘the chance and/or opportunity to win.’ Which is to also wonder, what is a mother who has four children dependent on her doing gambling any spare money she has at a casino?