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Disagreement Leaves $1,000,000 At Stake

Most slot machine players would be happy to break even when they leave the casino of their choice on any given day, let alone to actually win anything. Unless they are extreme high-rollers throwing away a few hundred bucks a spin, we’re willing to bet that most punters would be EXTREMELY happy with a haul of eight thousand bucks – but not Ms. Florida Eash, a resident of Biloxi, Mississippi. Eash appeared before the state Supreme Court last week, claming that the management of the IP Casino is trying to defraud her of the million dollar slot win that she justly deserved.

Court documents reveal that Eash was playing the $5 Double Top Dollar slot machine on February 19, 2006 when she won a jackpot. The machine registered and displayed a one million dollar jackpot, and sent a signal to the establishment’s accounting system saying that a million dollar payout was expected. At this point, the stories of Eash and the casino diverge. Eash says that she is owed the million dollars; attorneys for the casino counter that the million dollar message was a programming error and that the slot game in question doesn’t even feature a million dollar prize on its paytable.

The first round of the battle between Eash and IP Casino was before the state Gaming Commission, which ruled in favor of Eash and said that the casino’s “sloppiness” had contributed to the error. When the casino appealed, a judge overturned the decision and agreed that Eash knew a million dollar win was not possible on that machine. Now, Eash has pushed the matter before the highest court in the land, hoping to be awarded the million dollars she feels she deserves for her slot machine win.

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