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"CENTRAL CITY, CO - Louise Chavez thought she had won $42 million dollars. Turns out lady luck was just teasing her.

"People were coming up to me saying I won $42,000,000, or at least $42,000" says Chavez, who was playing penny slots at Fortune Valley Casino in Central City. "Lights were flashing, it sounded like a fire truck, the screen said 'see attendant.'"

When the attendant arrived, Chavez was told the machine had malfunctioned and she would not receive any payment. "They didn't tell me why."

The casino gave her a room for the night, bought her breakfast and gave her $23 dollars, the amount she says she had put into the machine.

The Director of Marketing for Fortune Valley says random numbers appeared on the screen.

"In 15 years, we have never seen anything like this before," says Joe Behm. "We have rules and regulations that we follow and it is now in the hands of the Division of Gaming."

The Division of Gaming, according to Behm, will look for forensic information in the machine's software. There is the possibility that Chavez could still win some money based on the division's findings.

As for Chavez, she is not sure what she will do next, but she's not folding. "I played the game, I put my money into the machine, whether it's 42 million, 42 thousand or 4 thousand, I should get what the machine said."

People won't gamble there if they refuse to pay out on the big jackpots. Only the gambling addicts will and then it will have to mean that place is the only place in town. The are probably already in the process of a name change and having the "under new management" signs printed up.

This happens fairly often. I can kinda see both sides, but it's awfully suspicious that the machine "malfunctions" when it hits a big payout. What's the bad publicity worth?

There's no "both sides". The dumb bitch can't even describe what the machine displayed, just that it went off. Desperation and nothing more. Done.

She should still take whatever check they give her to a lawyer's office and tell him she'll do a 50/50 split on anything he gets over that amount. No jury will have sympathy for a casino.

She's not even sure what she won... No fucken way she survives in front of one of our fake lawyers, much less a real attorney.

she's better off without that money anyway, it'd be the death of her. pretty much the last thing a compulsive gambler, let alone slot machine drone is equipped to deal in is money management.

and then there's the problem of her heritage and propensity toward shiny things that would drive an unstoppable urge to turn her new place into solid gold everything.

much like backdoorman's love life it would be over before it began, flash to news cameras, tears and clutched rosary beads with the sheriff tossing her ass out on the front lawn.


“¡Me llamo Monkey! ¡Vamos a la playa!”

much like backdoorman's love life it would be over before it began, flash to COMPUTER MONITOR, DROOL and clutched HAM RADIO WALKIE TALKIE.......

FIXED !

No penny slot is going to have a $42 million jackpot.