Comment Re:They were greedy (Score 1) 320
or if they claim that the machine is "broken" and stiff the customer when it pays out a jackpot it wasn't supposed to (even if it was broken, as occasionally happens.)
The casino is specifically prohibited by law from paying out if the machine is broken.
Now, you then obviously would wonder, why is it prohibited by law?
And the answer is, because it makes money laundering incredibly easy. A drug cartel lord sends a bunch of minions into your casino with his in-cash drug profits, they lose it on a whole bunch of bets all over the place. Then he personally walks in uses the broken machine the two of you set up, and walks out with a whole pile of legitimately-won-from-a-casino-on-the-dollar-slots money.