Hong Kong - A casino in the Chinese gambling resort of Macau refused to pay out a 5-million-US-dollar jackpot won on a slot machine game, a news report said Saturday. A Hong Kong woman saw the jackpot flash up on the machine at the Star World Casino after putting a 5-Hong-Kong dollar (60 US cents) coin into the slot on Thursday.
She alerted casino staff to claim her win but they told her it was a mechanical mistake and shut the machine off despite her protests, the South China Morning Post reported.
A spokesman for the casino said the maximum jackpot payout on the machine was just under 6,000 US dollars and blamed the error on a malfunction that apparently jacked up the credit metre.
The middle-aged woman called police and argued with casino staff into the early hours before giving up and returning to Hong Kong, the newspaper said.
The case was mediated by Macau's Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau, which ruled that the incident was a "gross mistake" by the machine and that there should be no payout.
In February, Macau's Sands casino refused to pay a 94,000-US- dollar jackpot to an underage 16-year-old girl. The bureau ordered the casino to pay the jackpot to the girl's mother. |
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