three weeks after playing Vegas slots
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An Arizona man is $292,000 richer, but he didn’t know he’d won the amount on a Las Vegas slot machine until several weeks after the fact, reported the New York Daily News .
Robert Taylor won the money during a visit to the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino on Jan. 8, but a “communications error” prevented him from knowing it, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
“The slot machine experienced a malfunction that prevented Mr. Taylor and casino personnel from realizing that a progressive jackpot had been won,” the NGCB said Friday.
“By the time an extensive review of the slot machine and the communications technology was completed, confirming the jackpot had been won, Mr. Taylor had returned home to Arizona.”
The board said an “exhaustive investigation,” by its own agents, as well as the Nevada Transportation Authority, enabled them to identify Taylor, who found out on Jan. 28 he could still collect his winnings.
He was supposed to pick up his money over the weekend.
