WPLG, CNN NEWSOURCE)-- Marina Navarro is a winner.
She took home a $100,000 prize minus taxes in January during a lucky night of playing video poker at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
But she had company that night.
Jan Flato says he actually was the big winner.
The then-friends Flato and Navarro, who doesn't want her face shown, gambled on Flato's player card, and when it was time to collect winnings from casino officials:
"Upstairs, the eye in the sky says she touched the button, so technically, we have to pay her," Flato said.
"Jan, all of a sudden, went ballistic. He started screaming in front of everybody," Navarro said.
"I said, 'Are you kidding me?'" Flato remembered.
He says he had her hit the button for luck on his $50 bet.
That turned out to be an unlucky, un-savvy move.
Part of a statement from Hard Rock said, "the person who pushes a slot machine button or pulls the arm is the person who wins the jackpot."
Flato says Navarro took the 100-grand. "I said, 'Marina! What are you doing?' And she gets up and walks out."
"That same night, he started sending me nasty text messages threatening me," Navarro said.
Here are some sent that night:
"Having me as an enemy, not good," she says he wrote, as well as, "we'll see who made the big mistake. It won't be me."
The rest of the text messages were too vulgar to show.
She tells us she offered him some of her winnings, but after receiving threatening texts, she decided to pull her offer.
Flato says Navarro also sent him messages.
"Still mad at me?" he says she wrote.
