If you're going to run a casino, rule number one should probably be: Pay people what they win. Seems obvious, right? Well, apparently not to Paddy Power, who tried to pull the ultimate "Oops, our bad" move when a Gloucestershire gardener, Corrine Durber, hit the jackpot.

Let’s rewind. In October 2020, Durber was playing Wild Hatter, an online game with a mix of fruit machines and a wheel of fortune. She spun the wheel, her iPad lit up like Christmas morning, and BOOM: "Monster Jackpot." The screen said she’d just bagged £1,097,132.71.

Cue celebrations, champagne, and probably a mental shopping list.

Except there was one little problem—Paddy Power only coughed up £20,265. Their excuse? Oopsie daisy, that was a computer glitch! You actually won a much smaller prize.

Yeah, no. Durber wasn’t having it, and she took them to court.

And here’s where it gets good: She won. Big time.

Mr Justice Ritchie wasn’t buying Paddy Power’s nonsense either. He straight-up said, if a company screws up because of their own bad coding, that’s on them—not the customer. In his 62-page ruling (seriously, how much can you write about “pay the woman her damn money”?), he made it clear that what you see is what you get. If a casino tells you that you hit the jackpot, guess what? You actually hit the jackpot.

To hammer home the point, the judge threw in a classic analogy: Imagine walking into a physical casino, betting on 13 in roulette, and then watching the ball land on 13. Would the casino turn around and say, "Oh, sorry, the ball actually landed on 7 in our internal system—our bad!?"

Of course not.

So, Paddy Power’s "glitch" excuse went up in flames, and Durber is now planning to enjoy a well-earned retirement with her family. "Obviously, it will look after the children, we'll pay their mortgages, and we're going to enjoy our retirement," she told ITV News.

And the best part? Durber asked the question we were all thinking: Why didn’t Paddy Power just pay up in the first place instead of dragging her through legal hell?

Paddy Power, in typical corporate-speak, responded with a vague, "We always strive for fairness and regret this unfortunate case."

Translation: Yeah, we tried to screw her over. We lost. Whoops.

So, moral of the story? If you run a casino, honor your bets—or get ready to lose even bigger in court.