The incident happened over a year ago, and recently "Casino Austria" offered 500 000 Euro settlement, but the swiss refuses to take the settlement. I assume strategy is to "sit it out in court" and wait, who has the "longer breath" or money for attorneys. Cruel
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"A Swiss slot machine player is about to launch a lawsuit against a casino company after it refused to pay him $57m in winnings, despite the machine signifying that he'd hit the jackpot. Operators of the Austrian casino claimed the win was the result of a "software error" and therefore he was not entitled to the prize.
It wouldn’t matter whether it was at the gambling mecca of Vegas, or, as in the case of Behar Merlaku, at a little-known casino in the tiny Austrian town of Bregenz – if the bells and lights on the slot machine I’m on start ringing and flashing, telling me I’ve won $57 million, then of course I’ll be planning my retirement.
But when Swiss national Merlaku went to claim his jackpot, owners of the casino simply said there’d been a “software error” and that the 26-year-old was therefore not entitled to the big money prize.
Instead they offered him $100 and a free meal, which, hardly surprisingly, he rejected. Admittedly, it appeared that the top prize was for a five-slot match, whereas Merlaku had only managed to match four-slots, but with the machine’s screen and accompanying racket telling him he’d won, why wouldn’t he believe it?"
Read more:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/interna...#ixzz29ENjvQxD
Are there similar cases in the US? I wonder how lawsuits go according to that? Oh wow!
http://www.digitaltrends.com/interna...r-offered-100/
57 mil. Euro declared "computer error" in Austria
))))...... Boy, would I be mad.... 
