my check from Harrah's bounced.

[Dragonball]

So I got second place in Event #12, $1500 6-Handed NLHE. (Dude hit a two-outer on the river when I had him all in for the bracelet, but that's another story).

When the tournament ended, they asked me if I wanted my $269,000 in cash, casino chips, or a check. Ummm, "check please." I flew home the next day and walked into my bank and proudly produced then deposited the check, which roughly doubled my net worth. So far so good.

Three days later I get a call from a guy at my bank. WTF? He tells me the check bounced. I asked him if he was sure, and he said yes, he was quite sure, there was only one check for a quarter million dollars that I tried to deposit recently, and that's the check that bounced. I found it very strange that a check issued by the largest gaming corporation in the world would bounce, so I once again asked him if he was positive. He was positive.

Next I called the WSOP cage at the Rio and talked to a supervisor. He was already aware of the situation, was waiting for my call, and said it had something to do with a sequencing number error (???) and that he was very sorry. He said to re-deposit the check once I received it in the mail and it would go through. Fine.

I waited a few days but the bounced check didn't show up in the mail, and I was flying back out to Vegas to play more events the next day. I did receive something else in the mail, however: a letter from my bank confirming what I already knew--that the check bounced--and saying that my account was being frozen until the situation was resolved. OK, now i'm annoyed. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

I flew back out to Vegas and went and saw the supervisor in person. I produced the letter from my bank and I must have looked pissed, because he was apologizing profusely. I had them put in a stop payment on the check and asked them to just wire the money into my (now frozen) checking account. It took another three days, but the money finally cleared about ten days after I won it.

I asked him if Harrah's intended to do anything for me. I said that there would be a bounce fee, that the money would have earned a decent chunk of interest in those ten days, and said having my account temporarily frozen was rather inconvenient. He said he was not authorized to do anything for me, but would reimburse the bounce fee once I could provide proof of it. Sweet, how generous.

I'm not real impressed with Harrah's at this point, and I'm thinking of firing off a nasty letter asking for some kind of compensation... like a free room for one night during the main event would be nice, or just a free dinner or something.

Am I being a douchebag for complaining at all after I won $269k, or do I have a legit beef here?

and yes, i know... tl;dr.