Yup, Friends & Money...
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 7:38 am
http://nypost.com/2017/04/08/he-lost-a- ... he-button/
He lost a slot machine jackpot because his friend pushed the button.
Don’t let anyone push your buttons.
That’s the new mantra of gambler Jan Flato, who lost out on a $100,000 slot machine jackpot because he let a friend do the honors , 7News Boston reported.
Flato, 66, was feeding cash into the $50-a-spin Double Top Dollar machine at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Fort Lauderdale on Jan. 31.
At one point, he let his friend Marina Navarro push the button, for “luck,” the site reported.
And she was the charm.
The machine’s bells and whistles went off, and Flato assumed he was the one in the money.
Wrong, said casino officials who reviewed surveillance footage to confirm which one had the Midas touch — it was Navarro, 35.
“The person who pushes a slot machine button or pulls the arm is the person who wins the jackpot,” said Seminole spokesman Gary Bitner, the site reported.
And Flato lost not only the jackpot, but his friend too, he said.
Navarro reportedly asked armed security to keep an eye on his as she walked away with her big payout.
“I said, ‘Marina, what are you doing?’ and she gets up and walks out,” Flato said.
Weeks later, Flato claims, Navarro texted him: “Still hate me?”
He responded, “How could you do that to me?”
The furious Flato offers up this tip to fellow slot players: “Don’t ever let them touch the button, don’t even tell them to touch anything for luck, because they can do what Marina did to me.”
Navarro said she offered Flato some of the winnings, but claims that after receiving allegedly threatening texts, all bets were off.
He lost a slot machine jackpot because his friend pushed the button.
Don’t let anyone push your buttons.
That’s the new mantra of gambler Jan Flato, who lost out on a $100,000 slot machine jackpot because he let a friend do the honors , 7News Boston reported.
Flato, 66, was feeding cash into the $50-a-spin Double Top Dollar machine at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Fort Lauderdale on Jan. 31.
At one point, he let his friend Marina Navarro push the button, for “luck,” the site reported.
And she was the charm.
The machine’s bells and whistles went off, and Flato assumed he was the one in the money.
Wrong, said casino officials who reviewed surveillance footage to confirm which one had the Midas touch — it was Navarro, 35.
“The person who pushes a slot machine button or pulls the arm is the person who wins the jackpot,” said Seminole spokesman Gary Bitner, the site reported.
And Flato lost not only the jackpot, but his friend too, he said.
Navarro reportedly asked armed security to keep an eye on his as she walked away with her big payout.
“I said, ‘Marina, what are you doing?’ and she gets up and walks out,” Flato said.
Weeks later, Flato claims, Navarro texted him: “Still hate me?”
He responded, “How could you do that to me?”
The furious Flato offers up this tip to fellow slot players: “Don’t ever let them touch the button, don’t even tell them to touch anything for luck, because they can do what Marina did to me.”
Navarro said she offered Flato some of the winnings, but claims that after receiving allegedly threatening texts, all bets were off.