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[Grym]

so... from what I am reading... I need to practice my stealth button pressing skills and go into a casino and press slot machine buttons without being noticed, and then the moment someone wins it big point out I pressed the button and walk off with the prize?

hang out by the penny slots. Those old grandmas are slow af

 

[dc3k]

Dick move taking the money. Dick move sending threatening texts. Neither deserve it.

 

[Tempy]

So if you walk up out of the blue and press someone elses machine before they can and it hits the jackpot you win the money?

brb, going to the casino.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

He used it...he put his money into it.

Whoever put the money into the slot should be entitled to the winnings.

I saw another story where the button pusher is claiming the money used was theirs.

 

[Kayhan]

Anyone got this guys details?

I want to offer him my hitman services.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

"Man who didn't use gambling machine does not win jackpot from gambling machine"

It was his money that round

 

[Akuun]

What a piece of shit friend. At least split the money.

Even worse is that she still mocks him with that "still mad at me?" shit.

It's a hundred fucking grand and she ran with it. What the fuck.

 

[Reptars Revenge]

Soo she took the winnings, he went 'ballistic' and blackmails her.

In the end, there are only shades of grey, and life is but a many-sided moon...

Blackmail?????

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Man she made bank

I cant blame her hustle. I dont know how long theyve known each other, but Id take the cash too if I was at a casino with say, a work friend.

 

[Kyzer]

We'll see who made the Big mistake


Pls respond

 

[low-G]

You'd be kicked out of the casino. This was consensual.

Come in dressed as a leprechaun, flaunting money. "May I press your button for luck?"

 

[gdt]

Got damn that's cold as hell. I respect the "fuck you" level I gotta say. Imagine being in that room lmao

 

[Trey]

And that's why they go by who pushed the button.

Obviously a ridiculous scenario to adhere to when in this case, a far more simpler solution would be to give the man his money. They both copped to the story that it was his money and she pushed it for luck.

 

[CadetMahoney]

After taxes, they'd be looking at like 25-30K apiece if that.

nasty

 

[Dabanton]

Haha what a dope. Probably thought it was cute her pushing it.

She's apparently married as well. Not sure what he was thinking with.

 

[Mister Zimbu]

So, if I put a dollar into the machine and walk away and months later you push the button, I should get the winnings?

If I walk up behind you at the slots and press the button on your machine, should I?

It's a gray area.

 

[Gobias]

Weeks later, she allegedly sent Flato a text message asking, "Still hate me?" He responded, "How could you do that to me?" And her response? "I miss you."

lol

 

[echoshifting]

"Friend"

 

[ColonialHawk]

I swear this was the plot of a movie, where a guy gives the friend 50 cents to use the slot machine, friend wins, but the guy is convinced since it was his quarters used, the money is his.

It was.

Sorry dude maybe if you weren't a being a hostile dick you could've split the money.

 

[norm9]

She's a terrible friend. Just "some" of the winnings? Nah, he should get all minus some fancy dinner spending cash for her.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

So if you walk up out of the blue and press someone elses machine before they can and it hits the jackpot you win the money?

and a free ride to the morgue

 

[zulux21]

I saw another story where the button pusher is claiming the money used was theirs.

if only casinos had some cameras installed covering every inch of the property that they could easily check the tapes of if a dispute happened

 

[Polioliolio]

You'd think it would be whoever put the money in the machine. Are they implying there was some skill involved in pushing a button that awarded the jackpot?

 

[Aselith]

To be fair she was the lucky one and he was trying to steal her charmed life

 

[benicillin]

I don't blame her. It sounds like he went nuts when he couldn't claim the money that they would only give to her and then started sending her threatening text messages.

 

[Arttemis]

What a dysfunctional friendship.

 

[zeemumu]

"Friend"

Sure, Jan

 

[Aselith]

I swear this was the plot of a movie, where a guy gives the friend 50 cents to use the slot machine, friend wins, but the guy is convinced since it was his quarters used, the money is his.

It's kind of similar to It Could Happen To You too but that one goes the other way.

 

[Nickle]

I guess you could say that she was really pushing his buttons.

 

[Rockandrollclown]

Why not just split it? You had her press the button "for luck", so split the jackpot. It's not even a life-changing amount of money after taxes, they'd be looking at like 25-30K apiece if that.

That is absolutely a life changing amount of money for many.

 

[Big Blue]

What a stupid fucking rule.

 

[zeemumu]

It's kind of similar to It Could Happen To You too but that one goes the other way.

I would have said Diamond is Unbreakable

 

[TissueBox]

Blackmail?????

Well those later messages definitely don't sound like reconciliation lol.

 

[Griss]

He used it...he put his money into it.

Whoever put the money into the slot should be entitled to the winnings.

How on earth is this not the rule?

 

[norm9]

 

[djplaeskool]

Ice. Fucking. Cold.

 

[Man with Knife]

This will end in tragedy...

And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article143374859.html

The woman who pushed the button on a slot machine and hit a $100,000 jackpot says she was the one feeding money into the machine, not her friend who claims she made off with his loot.

Marina Medvedeva Navarro, whose story was featured in the Miami Herald this week after her friend claimed the jackpot was truly his, disputes much of Jan Flato’s account of what happened that Jan. 31 night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Flato told the Herald his version of the story earlier this week, and Navarro at the time declined to comment, other than to say that winning a slot jackpot was personal. But after she saw Flato’s comments in the story, she wanted to provide her own account.

Flato says he was the one putting cash into the Double Top Dollar machine, and that Navarro pushed the button to spin the reels. When casino personnel checked the video before making the payout, they said the winnings would go to Navarro. Gambling experts agree that the protocol at casinos throughout the country is that the wager is placed by the person who pushes the button or pulls the handle on a slot machine.

But Navarro says she was playing on her own dime, and there was never a question that it was her money. She says she made a good-faith offer to share the winnings. And she says Flato, an experienced gambler, knew that the jackpot went to the person who pushed the button.

Hard Rock casino management declined to discuss the case, saying the tribe keeps gambler information confidential.

Navarro, a Hallandale Beach based mortgage broker who lives in Aventura, says that her husband, who works in sales, is furious.

“I’m a hard-working professional and [Flato] is playing with my honor,” she said.

She confirmed that she and Flato originally became friends at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, and that Flato met her at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Jan. 31. He caught up with her at the center bar, after she had taken a break from a losing session at blackjack, then headed toward the high roller room.

“My favorite game is Top Dollar slots, and the best ones are in the high limit room,” she says.

She says she placed $100 in one machine, and hit a small jackpot that ran her winnings to $400. She then took that voucher into the Double Top Dollar machine, which costs $50 per spin.

She says she placed Flato’s players club card in the machine so he would receive the slot points that go toward casino perks.

Then she hit her jackpot.

“We yelled and screamed and hugged,” she says. “We were very happy.”

A big crowd gathered and the casino officials reviewed the video.

“They took about 15, 20 minutes, and [Flato] was already dividing the money,” she says. “They came down to give me the jackpot and he went ballistic.”

Navarro said her plan was to give Flato a portion of the winnings.

“I said, ‘Just wait and let me figure this out, and when you calm down we’ll speak,’” she said, and then asked casino security to walk her out.

Navarro says that after that, she received several text messages and emails from Flato, insulting and threatening her, including one that said: “I'd move back to Russia, if I was you.”

Flato doesn’t deny sending them.

“Of course, I was angry,” he says. “She stole $100,000 of my money.” He says he doesn’t regret any of the personal attacks he made, but is sorry he said mean things about her children.

Then there’s the matter at the crux of the disagreement, which Navarro says should be moot. She says Flato knew all along that the person pushing the button wins the cash.

“We would play video poker together at Gulfstream, and for good luck he’d have me place my fingers on top of his” when they had cards favorable for a jackpot, she says. “He said that by doing that, he would still get the jackpot.”

 

[O Canada Our Home and Native Land]

How on earth is this not the rule?

And then people would comment the person pressing the button should get the money. There's no way to settle this.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Lol

 

[Dash_Riprock]

It's kind of similar to It Could Happen To You too but that one goes the other way.

It was.

Nah neither of those are it. This movie was from the 90s and definitely not a romcom.

 

[Vilam]

This is how murder suicides happen.

 

[Akainu]

"Still hate me"

"Fuck. You."

 

[Ventara]

This got me thinking; how much would the prize have to be for you do the same thing this woman did? Or would you never do that, regardless of the amount? Oh, and let's just say you can't split it.

100K, thought wouldn't have even occurred to me, and I'd like to think I'm not morally degraded enough to ever pull something like that. But if that was $100 million.... I don't know.

 

[echoshifting]

http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article143374859.html

Well well!


This is going to get really ugly

 

[Jarlaxle]

I swear this was the plot of a movie, where a guy gives the friend 50 cents to use the slot machine, friend wins, but the guy is convinced since it was his quarters used, the money is his.

Pretty sure you're thinking of "Sour Grapes" which was written by Larry David. Funny movie.

 

[Zoe]

http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article143374859.html

Well well well

 

[Reptars Revenge]

I say put it all on black and let them both have 100,000 or nothing

 

[Undead Fantasy]

This will end in tragedy...

And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know.

Little...?

 

[Ashby]

“We would play video poker together at Gulfstream, and for good luck he’d have me place my fingers on top of his” when they had cards favorable for a jackpot, she says. “He said that by doing that, he would still get the jackpot.”

Navarro, a Hallandale Beach based mortgage broker who lives in Aventura, says that her husband, who works in sales, is furious.

Huh