Casino pays $290,000 jackpot even after win found to be mistake

[RedHot25]

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/060920/K092012U.html

Freddy Howard, 53, of Sunny Isles Beach, took part in a free promotional game, the Swipe and Win Progressive jackpot, while at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood on Aug. 29. Howard swiped his Players Club card, and a hostess and supervisor broke the news: He had won $259,945.75. Howard was showered with attention and presented with a giant cardboard check.
Then casino managers broke the bad news - a computer glitch had caused an error and he was not a big winner.
On Tuesday, the Hard Rock paid him anyway.


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Gotta like this part:

Then casino staff added to the problem.
"We became overexcited at the operations level," said Seminole gaming chief executive officer James Allen. "Our marketing team's job is to create excitement, and, candidly, they went a little too far."

[Burninator]

Lucky Guy. But $290,000 for a casino is barely a drop in the bucket.

[Flames_Gimp]

i like that part where he thanks God for things working out.... like if there was a god he would give a **** if someone won a bunch of money lol

[Daradon]

Wow a casino doing the 'right' thing?