Jan Flato was playing the slot(老虎机) machine at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Fort Lauderdale. Nothing was coming up, so he asked his friend Marina Navarro to push the button(按钮) to see if she could change his luck.
Navarro pushed the button. Then, suddenly, lights flashed and the screen showed that he had won the $100,000 jackpot...or so he thought. But the managers watched the video, it showed that Navarro pushed the button, which made her the winner of the jackpot.
Navarro was going to leave with the money. “Marina, what are you doing?” Flato asked. But Marina stood up and walked out. Weeks later, she sent Flato a text message asking, “Still hate me?” He replied, “How could you do that to me?” And how did she answer to that? “I miss you.”
From then on, Flato said, she never called him or sent him messages again. Flato is still furious about what happened. But now, he has an important message for other slot players: Don’t ever let others touch the button, because they can do what Marina did to me.
Navarro explained that she was prepared to share some of the winnings with Flato until he sent her text messages saying “Having me as an enemy was not good...”, which made her feel very afraid and heartbroken!