I put in a bug report, and we will have to wait and see if the developer fixes the issue before the event ends in September. I went back to the vendor to confirm this, and got the error message, you can't interact with this vendor right now.
I thought that was strange, as when I 'won,' i actually lost. I used the max smuggler token machine, and got 10 regular smuggler tokens back. However, it appears that the VIP vendors are bugged, as I went to buy the max tokens from the vendor, and bought one max smuggler token for 20 regular smuggler tokens. Most likely learning that like the battle pass events, it is not worth going out of your way for, and then getting ridiculed by the community for spending my time analyzing the game. I was planning on sharing my findings with the community for free, like did with the First and Second Battle Pass events.
An expensive endeavor as the max emperor tokens are 150 million credits each. I was going to play each slot machine (Smuggler's, Kingpin, Emperor, Max Bet Smuggler's, Max Bet Kingpin, and Max Bet Emperor) 100 times each, to get an idea of the Max bet slot machines found in the VIP area of the fleet were worth it.