Casinos will look for any justification to avoid paying off winning players. Excuses range from slot-machine malfunction to “your friend pulled the lever, not you” (as this poor guy can attest — he put up the money, his so-called friend collected).

Or they can simply say you were never supposed to be there in the first place — which happened to one Ontario woman this past weekend, after she poured $600 into a slot machine at Seneca Niagara Casino. When the machine finally hit a jackpot, WHEC reported, casino bosses forced her to leave empty-handed — and wouldn’t even kick back the $600 she’d blown — amid claims that she had been barred from the casino.

Disappointed as the Canadian gambler may have been, she finds herself in good company. Lauded celebrities and notorious winners have all gotten the boot from ritzy gambling dens.

Movie star Ben Affleck was tossed from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s blackjack tables in Las Vegas when he was spotted card counting. Even though the strategy is completely legal, gaming supervisors notified Affleck that he was no longer welcome at their tables.

“The fact that being good at a game is against the rules of a casino should tell you something about a casino,” Affleck opined to Details magazine in 2014. “There’s a lot of hospitality, backslapping, when they think you’re gonna come in and dump money, and if they think you might leave with some money, it’s like, ‘You know what? Why don’t you try craps or roulette?”

Then, there’s Paris Hilton. Back in her hard-partying days, she was temporarily banned (but is now allowed back in) from Steve Wynn’s luxury resort casinos Wynn Las Vegas and Encore after she was arrested for possession of cocaine nearby. (Hilton denied that the drugs belonged to her and posed for a famously unrepentant mug shot.)

One Direction didn’t have to carry drugs to get themselves booted from casinos all over Las Vegas. As a source told the Sun, “The boys were hoping to go wild in Vegas by boozing and gambling into the early hours. But security at every casino in town knew who the lads were and threw them out because the legal drinking and gambling age in the US is 21.”

So, old lady from Canada, you and a quintet of screamworthy pop stars actually do share something in common. And you have a stingy, sore-loser casino to thank for it.