They referred him to prosecutors, who convicted him of fraud.
A little bit into this, security guards escorted him away. He put in $20 of his own on top of that to keep playing, and he hit the button for a few rounds. Werling went to a Denver casino and sat at a slot machine.
4 You Can Get Arrested for Playing a Machine Someone Else Put Money In Still, other facts about slots will make you even more angry. You don’t need to know any more than that to shake your fist at it in anger. It’s a machine that takes in money and rarely spits any back out. For comparison, the entire domestic box office might take in $10 billion in a good year (and hasn’t managed that for several years now). Slots in American casinos took in over $34 billion last year, more than everything else casinos do combined. And yet, slots are the most lucrative part of the casino. Everything at a casino is a fool’s game, unless you visit with the assumption that you plan to lose money, but slot machines have the added problem of not even being fun.
