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Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Yahoo
She thought she'd won $1.4 million. They tried to pay just $26,000 — but she didn't take no for an answer
A British woman has won a legal case against a bookmaker over an unpaid million-dollar prize. Corrine Durber initially won a $1.4 million jackpot but was later paid a lower prize of $26,000. She took gambling firm Paddy Power to court and this week was awarded the full prize money. A woman from the UK who was told on a gambling game that she had won over $1.4 million but was only given $26,000 has won a legal challenge against the betting firm. In October 2020, Corrine Durber placed a bet on the online platform of Irish gambling firm Paddy Power. The game, Wild Hatter, was a combination of fruit machine reels and a wheel of fortune, documents from the court case said. Durber, who lives in Gloucestershire in southwest England, said she was playing the game on her iPad when she won a jackpot prize in its first stage and was moved to the next level. Per court documents, she was then asked to spin the jackpot wheel. After clicking the "spin" button, Durber was informed she had won the "Monster Jackpot" of £1,097,132.71 ($1,416,000). Instead, she was paid £20,265.14 ($26,160) by Paddy Power, the amount due if Durber had won the 'Daily Jackpot' instead. The case, which reached the UK's High Court, said that no explanation was provided for why the sum changed to a much smaller figure. Durber complained to the gambling company on the same evening she won, the case said. At the time, Paddy Power said the computer system that ran the game had made a mistake and displayed an incorrect figure. Paddy Power said she should have won a 'Daily Jackpot,' but because of the programming issue, the 'Monster System' segment lit up. Durber sued PPB Entertainment, which trades as Paddy Power and Betfair, for the money she was due under the terms of a consumer contract and breach of contract. In his ruling earlier this week, High Court judge Justice Andrew Ritchie said: "When a trader puts all the risk on a consumer for its own recklessness, negligence, errors, inadequate digital services and inadequate testing, that appears onerous to me." Speaking to PA Media after the decision, Durber said: "As you can imagine, I'm so relieved and happy that the judge has confirmed I fairly and squarely won £1 million from Paddy Power." "I will never bet with them ever again," she said. Flutter UKI, which owns Paddy Power, told Business Insider in a statement: "Every week, tens of thousands of customers win with Paddy Power, including an individual who received a £5.7m jackpot just one year ago. "We always strive to provide the best customer experience possible and pride ourselves on fairness. "We deeply regret this unfortunate case and are reviewing the judgment." Read the original article on Business Insider
The Guardian
05-03-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
UK high court tells Paddy Power to pay £1m prize to winner offered £20k
When Corrinne Durber was told by Paddy Power she had won £1m but only received £20,000 she had a choice: fold or double down. The gardener from Gloucestershire went for the latter and on Wednesday her tenacity paid off – she won a high court case forcing the gambling giant to hand over exactly £1,076,867.57. Speaking after the decision, Durber said: 'As you can imagine, I'm so relieved and happy that the judge has confirmed I fairly and squarely won £1m from Paddy Power. 'But why couldn't Paddy Power pay up straight away instead of putting me through this legal torment? 'I will never bet with them ever again, and I advise others to be very careful too.' She added that Paddy Power had 'tried their very best to deny me my rightful winnings'. 'What's the point in betting if betting companies like Paddy Power won't pay-up when someone wins a big jackpot?' Durber had been playing the Wild Hatter game in October 2020, which was described as a combination of a fruit machine and a wheel of fortune style game with two parts. After moving to the second part and spinning the jackpot wheel, Durber's iPad screen displayed she had won the 'Monster Jackpot', which was stated as £1,097,132.71 on the day she played. However, she was only paid £20,265.14 and told she had won the smaller 'Daily Jackpot', with the difference attributed to an error with the game's display as it had been malprogrammed and pointed to the wrong prize. Durber sued PPB Entertainment Limited, which trades as Paddy Power and Betfair, for breach of contract and the rest of her winnings, based on what she was shown on screen. Sign up to Headlines UK Get the day's headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning after newsletter promotion In a judgment in her favour handed down on Wednesday, Mr Justice Ritchie said that the idea of 'what you see is what you get' was 'central' to the game. In a 62-page ruling, he said: 'Objectively, customers would want and expect that what was to be shown to them on screen to be accurate and correct. 'The same expectation probably applies when customers go into a physical casino and play roulette. 'They expect the house to pay out on the roulette wheel if they bet on number 13 and the ball lands on number 13.' After the ruling, a spokesperson for Flutter UKI, which owns Paddy Power, said: 'Every week tens of thousands of customers win with Paddy Power, including an individual who received a £5.7m jackpot just one year ago. 'We always strive to provide the best customer experience possible and pride ourselves on fairness. 'We deeply regret this unfortunate case and are reviewing the judgment.'
