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Another Lawsuit Over Faulty Slot Machines         (1 of 3)

Another slot machine player is squaring off against the powers that be over a malfunctioning slot machine game that awarded a jackpot much higher than it was supposed to. Polish immigrant Pawel Kusznirewicz is taking on the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation over a forty-three million dollar slot game jackpot that the OLG says is a “mistake.” The case is just the latest story of slots fans done wrong by allegedly faulty machines to hit the news; recently, the case of Mississippi punter Florida Eash rocked the industry.

Like Eash, Kusznirewicz is furious after being told that he is not, in fact, entitled to the jackpot that was displayed by the slot machine he was playing. Kusznirewicz was playing the Buccaneer slot game (made by Georgian Downs) at the Innisfil Casino in Toronto when the bells and whistles indicating a jackpot began to sound. The machine displayed a jackpot of just under forty-three million dollars, an amount that reportedly gave Kusznirewicz chest pains with the high amount of excitement that he experienced. Kusznirewicz said that he had already begun mentally planning the belated honeymoon on which he would take his wife, Halina, when casino employees came over to verify the jackpot.

That’s where the trouble began. The Buccaneer is a two-cent slot machine, and Kusznirewicz had played sixty dollars’ worth of bets on the machine – which only carries a top jackpot of just over nine thousand dollars. The discrepancy was noticed immediately by Innisfil, which refused to pay out the jackpot.

Continue to part 2 here.

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