If you had won $43 million, the world would truly be your oyster. That is what the unlucky lady believed until she was offered a steak meal in lieu of her prize.

Since the prize was actually the consequence of a “malfunction,” the aspiring billionaire was left disappointed—unless a steak meal counts?

When Katrina Bookman won what would have been the highest slot machine jackpot in US history, $42,949,672, in 2017, she was playing the slots at the Resorts World Casino in Jamaica, Queens.

She used the device to capture the moment in a picture and claimed that seeing the life-altering figure made her entire body feel “numb.”

The casino instructed Bookman to return the following day to discuss her winnings, but when she asked what she would be taking home, a worker simply replied, “You didn’t win anything.”

The New York State Gaming Commission verified that Bookman only truly earned a pitiful $2.25 because her machine had malfunctioned.

Because the machine’s warning that “malfunctions void all payments and plays” was there, the commission claimed that they were bound by law to only award Bookman the money she had really earned.

The casino gave Bookman a free steak meal as a show of goodwill, but that’s hardly cause for celebration when you think you’ve won enough money to eat steak for the rest of your life.

According to a Resorts World representative, Dan Bank, “Casino staff were able to identify that the sum displayed on the penny slot was the product of an evident malfunction upon being informed of the issue, which was later validated by the New York State Gaming Commission.

We offered to pay Ms. Bookman the right amount that was listed on the ticket after explaining the situation to her. We apologize to Ms. Bookman for any trouble this may have caused. Machine faults are uncommon.

The year after Bookman believed she had won, her attorney filed a lawsuit and called the casino’s claims “ridiculous.”

“You can’t say that a piece of equipment is damaged because you want it to be broken. Does that imply that it wasn’t looked at? Does it suggest it wasn’t kept up with? Ripka at the time told CNN

If true, would that imply that players who participated in the game before Bookman had no chance of winning?

In the end, a settlement was reached outside of court.

Bookman, a single mother of four who was reared in foster care as a youngster, remarked after realizing she would only be leaving with a few dollars, “All I could think about was my family.”