It’s a sure bet, based on what he told WSVN, that he is, indeed, still pretty upset.
Navarro said she initially offered some of the winnings, but after the texts, she decided to pull her offer.įlato says Navarro texted him, too, asking, “Still hate me?” The rest of the text messages were too vulgar for the station to air. Navarro showed WSVN-TV the texts, which said, “having me as an enemy…not good” and “well se who made the big mistake. “That same night, he started sending me nasty text messages, threatening me,” Navarro said. “I said,” Marina, what are you doing?’ And she gets up and walks out.” That turned out to be an unlucky move, at least for him.Ī statement from Seminole Hard Rock said, in part, “the person who pushes a slot machine button or pulls the arm is the person who wins the jackpot.”įlato says Navarro took the $100,000. “He started screaming in front of everybody.”įlato admits he had Navarro hit the button for luck on his $50 bet. “Jan all of the sudden, went ballistic,” Navarro recounted.
“Upstairs, the eye in the sky says, ‘She touched the button, so technically, we have to pay her,’” he recalled. The then-friends gambled on Flato’s player’s card, but he was in for a surprise when it was time to collect the winnings. Slot games involve spinning reels of symbols in the hopes of matching up symbols in winning combinations. Jan Flato says he actually was the big winner. The Megabucks slot machine has shelled out the most winnings on this list, with 10 lucky winners getting multi-million dollar jackpots on Megabucks.
