Goracke said that she thought the patrons were having a nice run of luck at first.
The owner of the bar, Susan Goracke, noticed that she was paying a lot of jackpots. Jackpots of $6 thousand and $3 thousand were paid out at a certain point. The keno machine offered 7 jackpots of $500 or more before the bar’s ownership noticed the pattern. Mary in Johnson County, Nebraska, is struggling to stay in business after its keno machine glitch led to the business paying out large prizes to bar patrons. Smartville Station, a small bar in the unincorporated village of St. The Keno Machine Company Withdrew the EGM after the Glitch, Costing Smartville Station 7% of Its Revenues.