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PUNTERS BE WARNED: under Irish law winning gamblers have no legal guarantee of ever being paid a cent, a judge in the Circuit Civil Court has ruled. Judge Francis Comerford handed down the judgment in a legal action brought by Sayed Mirwais against Automatic Amusements Ltd, which trades as D1 Casino, and also against casino director Michael Donnelly. Mirwais had claimed that D1 Casino, of 63/64 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin, had refused to pay him €11,713 he had won after placing several bets on an automated roulette machine. He said that on the night of 2 and 3 March, 2015, he first won about €7,500. When he had wanted to cash it out, he had been given €2,500 in cash and €5,000 worth of chips, before being told to play more and he would be paid at the end of the night. The court heard that after he won a further €6,713, he was told by a manager to cash out. When he had gone to the cashier counter he had been told the casino had no more cash for the night but that he would be paid the following day. He had also been told that an engineer would later check the roulette machine. Mirwais (36), a married father of two with an address at St Mary’s Place, Phibsborough, Dublin, claimed the casino refused to pay him despite multiple requests. He claimed he was allowed to continue playing on the roulette machine in the hope he would lose and the casino had no intention of paying him if he won. He said it constituted an unfair commercial practice. Counsel for the casino, which had delivered a full defence to Mirwais’ claim, said there had been a “suspiciously high amount of money lost by the roulette machine.” Mirwais denied that he found a flaw in the machine which allowed him to play even though the screen indicated ‘no more bets.’ The casino also claimed that he had been “under observation.” The casino alleged that Mirwais changed the screen layout from single to double play mode in order to re-place a bet which had been placed in a previous game, enabling him to place a bet when the roulette ball had already settled. It had been unaware of the malfunction of the machine.

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