A slot machine made July 23rd a lucky day (or to be accurate - two days) for the gamblers at Caesars Indiana.
For two days one of the slot machines in the casino gave players ten times the credit they inserted into it. This cost the casino $487,000 (!) before someone, not a casino employee but a player, notified the casino of the problem.
Apparently, the machine had a switch set in a position for use in the Philippines instead of the United States. This caused the machine to multiply credits by 10.
According to Jennifer Arnold, the commission's deputy director, the Indiana Gaming Commission started investigating the incident, which might result in the casino ending up paying a fine for failing to follow the procedures that were designed specifically to prevent these problems.
While the casino plans on retrieving the lost money, commission director Ernest Yelton was skeptical about the players' legal obligation to return their winnings.
Caesars Indiana's general manager Ed Garruto said that they will try to get the lost money back: "We are going to contact some of the patrons who may have benefited a great deal and see if we can affect a recovery," he said. 24 of the gamblers won't be too hard to find, because they used their casino player cards.
He also admitted that there were faults in operating the slot machine: "our testing procedures before putting the game in place were not completely followed", he commented.
According to the commission report, a supervisor and three technicians who installed and tested the machine's software have been suspended pending investigation.
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