lengthy legal precedent that protects gaming manufacturers<\/a> and operators from being on the hook to pay out on slot machines and electronic gaming device malfunctions. Slot machines and other gaming terminals come with disclaimers warning gamblers that tech errors void plays.<\/p>\nIn Atlantic City, every slot machine features a notice that reads, “Malfunction voids all pays and plays.” The same protection is afforded to iGaming.<\/p>\n
So, why do malfunctions often result in jackpots being displayed? The Nevada Gaming Control Board explains:<\/h3>\n
“With each pull of the handle, or push of the button, a slot machine begins the process of randomly selecting the next alignment of symbols. If a slot machine malfunctions, it cannot complete the random selection process. When a malfunction occurs, some slot machine manufacturers, for engineering purposes, set the reels to stop briefly in a jackpot position.<\/p>\n
“When this happens, a player may see the reels momentarily stop at a jackpot. This often causes the player to believe a jackpot has been won. In recent years, slot machine manufacturers have changed the stop location to other than a jackpot alignment to help prevent the misunderstanding.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Jersey online casino players who gambled on an interactive slot manufactured by American Gaming Systems (AGS) are demanding compensation for a tech glitch that wrongly told them that they had won big. Plaintiff Lisa Piluso, a suburban Philadelphia resident who works in Wildwood, N.J., alleges that she was cheated out of a $100,000 jackpot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":191928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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