Imagine, if you would, how absolutely giddy you'd be if you won a $43 million jackpot while playing a casino slot machine. You could burn a lot of bridges with that amount of cash.

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New York resident Katrina Bookman is suing Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York after a slot machine malfunctioned and displayed her winnings at almost $43 million. She quickly made plans to purchase a barber shop for her son and “give back to her community” using the money she won. Tuesday, June 20, 2017 JAMAICA, Queens (WPVI) - A woman in New York is suing a Queens casino for $43 million dollars after they say a slot machine manfunctioned and showed her she won a multi.

Then imagine the opposite feeling you'd get when the casino tells you there was a 'malfunction' and you're not getting that jackpot, even though the slot machine lit up and said it was 'printing cash ticket $42,949,672.76.'

That really happened in August 2016 to Katrina Bookman, who is now suing the Resorts World Casino in Queens County Supreme Court, demanding that she get her payout from the Sphinx slot machine.

Instead of a massive payout, the New York casino instead allegedly awarded her a steak dinner and the $2.25 balance she had on the machine when she thought she hit the big one on the one-armed bandit made by International Game Technology, which is also named in the suit. The unhappy gambler alleges negligence, breach of contract, and negligent misrepresentation, according to Courthouse News Service, which says the complaint included a selfie Bookman took with the machine that showed she had hit the big one.

This isn't the first time a slot machine has malfunctioned, resulting in a gambler being denied serious cash. An 87-year-old Illinois woman gambling in Iowa had hit a nearly $42 million payout from the Hello Kitty slot machine. But she was denied payment because of a computer glitch.

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Iowa's top court ruled in 2015 the slot machine's user-agreement, available on the touchscreen, said the maximum payout was $10,000.

'Any message appearing on the screen indicating the patron would receive a $41 million bonus was a gratuitous promise and the casino's failure to pay it could not be challenged as a breach of contract,' the Iowa Supreme Court ruled.

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After news broke of Bookman's plight, the casino said in a statement that 'Machine malfunctions are rare, and we would like to extend our apologies to Ms. Bookman for any inconvenience this may have caused.' The New York State Gaming Commission has sided with the Resorts World Casino, ruling the there was 'clearly a display malfunction' and that the machine's maximum payout was programmed for $6,500. The slot machine was fixed and operating the following day.

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When Katrina Bookman won $43M at a casino, she thought she had it made. The problem was she didn't actually win: https://t.co/DJRHdm6p86pic.twitter.com/fL4Ep7rByk

— theGrio.com (@theGrio) October 31, 2016

Katrina Bookman thought her financial dreams had come true when she hit the $43 million jackpot playing a Sphinx slot machine at a New York Casino in August. But the machine’s maximum prize is $6,500—and the Resorts World Casino is refusing to even pay that.

According to ABC7, Bookman plans on suing for the maximum prize.

“They win and the house doesn’t want to pay out. To me that’s unfair,” Bookman’s attorney, Alan Ripka, told ABC7. “The machine takes your money when you lose. It ought to pay it when you win.”

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Bookman, whose partner captured the video of her when she thought she’d hit the jackpot, was later escorted off the casino floor and told to come back the next day for the decision.

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“I said, what did I win? [The casino representative said,] ‘You didn’t win nothing,‘” she recalled.

Bookman said all the casino offered her was a steak dinner.

But, it’s important to point out that the New York State Gaming Commission said Bookman’s slot machine malfunctioned and had a sign that read: “malfunctions void all pays and plays.” The gaming commission also said the casino could not legally award the max pay-out and that Bookman was only entitled to her winnings: just $2.25, ABC 7 wrote.

Bookman said she planned on using the $43 million to buy a barber shop for her son and use a chunk of the winnings to help serve her community.

BEAUTIES: Do you think she should get any winnings?

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