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Eash Loses Slots Dispute

The Imperial Palace has won the lawsuit brought against them by a Biloxi woman who claimed she won $1 million on a slots jackpot that only paid $8,000. The courts have ruled that the slots amount of win was in error, and thereby the casino does not owe her the additional money.

It all started when Florida Eash was playing the $5 Double Top Dollar slots game and hit the jackpot. The jackpot said that she had won $1 million, but the slots technicians informed her that she had not. The casino offered her the maximum payout of $8,000 but she decline saying that she wanted the full $1 million.

She took her case to the Mississippi Gaming Commission, who sided with Eash and said that the casino needed to pay her the $1 million because it was not technically a computer glitch. If in case of a glitch, the jackpot is null and void, as is stated on every game. However, in this case an International Game Technology technician programmed the game incorrectly, which is why it was showing the jackpot that it was.

However, Circuit Judge Roger Clark overturned that decision stating that the casino did not owe her the money because when Eash sat down at the casino it clearly stated that it paid out a maximum of $8,000. Clark said that she could not expect to win more than what was posted.

Clark said that he felt that the commission had based their decision on fairness, but “ignored its own precedent.” Eash must now decide if she will keep the $8,000 or continue to the Mississippi Supreme Court to appeal the ruling. The casino said that they thought that the court was simply correcting what had been an incorrect decision by the Gaming Commission.
 

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