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Broken Slots Lead to Larger Payouts

The Twin River Casino has been paying out twice as much money as it was supposed to from one of its slots. The machine was set to pay out double for some reason; no one knows exactly what happened. However, in the interim, the slots paid out two times what they should have to every player who played the machine.

The error was found after the slots had been running for two months – on June 15th. As far as they can tell, somehow the switch on the slots that made it pay out double was flipped, although no one knows how it happened or who did it. They are also making sure that no criminal intent was at play here, as they don’t know how the error on the slots occurred.

The Rhode Island slots casino paid out $450,115 more than it should have over the course of the two months. The company that supplied the slots was Gtech, and they don’t know what happened either. They have however, reimbursed the state for that money erroneously paid out. They do not know if they will be able to get back any of that money from the patrons or not yet, nor do they know why the error was not discovered at an earlier date.

The doubling feature on the slots allows customers to get double credit for the money put in up to a max credit of $100 from putting in $50. The state is going to keep the lions share of the reimbursed money, with Gtech, Twin River and the town of Lincoln splitting the rest.

 

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