Judy Drucker did not elaborate on the discrepency, but only told NJ.com the TAPinto “article is inaccurate”. She challenged Robert Chalet’s version of the story he gave in an interview with. Judy Drucker noted that all winners would be compensated for their winning tickets, thoughthe spokeswoman did not state whether customers like Robert Chalet would receive compensation. Drucker said, “The New Jersey Lottery has discontinued the sale of the High Card Poker instant game due to player misunderstanding of the game’s win scenarios, as stated on the back of the ticket.”ĭrucker added the confusion happened “when a handful of players questioned their win scenario.”

Lottery spokeswoman Judy Drucker said that scenario above played out in only a few hands. Devoid of rules, cashiers across the state could not verify wins.

The game rules do not specify what happens when a tie occurs. While the top card in each hand is a queen, Chalet’s second card (jack) beats the dealer’s ten. In most land-based and Internet poker scenarios, Robert Chalet’s hand would be the winner. The cashier told Chalet, “You won and you didn’t win.”Ĭhalet received a hand with a 5-6-9-J-Q, while the dealer had the hand 4-6-7-10-Q. Chalet thought he had won a $150,000 grand prize, only to learn from the cashier that he had won nothing. Robert Chalet of Bloomfield is a good example of a player experience. A number of lotto players thought they had won a big prize, only to learn they had won nothing.

The top prize was $150,000, but the game rules and instructions on the back of cards confused players. In the $5 game, players needed to beat the dealer’s head.

When the game began sales of more than a million scratch-off cards on August 7, some players “questioned their win scenario.” High Card Poker offered more than $13.6 million in prizes. The High Card Poker mishap is the latest in a string of fiascos for the NJ Lotto. The New Jersey Lottery pulled a new scratch-off card, High Card Poker, off shelves after confusion about the rules. High Card Poker scratch-off cards did not have rules for tie hands.

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