WINNING STORIES #3If you are looking for the true 'dream makers' in the casino, that trophy belongs to the fast growing progressive jackpots and we have the winners' stories below. A World Record. A Santa Ana, CA. man celebrated his 70th birthday by winning the World's largest 25-cent slot machine jackpot. Manuel Herrera was playing Wheel of Fortune quarters at the Flamingo in Laughlin, Nevada, when he won the $8.4 million jackpot. A retired restaurant worker, Herrera was visiting Laughlin on a bus tour when his $30 cash outlay made him a millionaire. He said, "He was preparing to leave the casino but decided to play just a little longer." "The bank of machines was busy with players on both sides of him and he had a feeling about that particular machine." As for the winnings, Herrera explained that he has 5 sons, 5 daughters, 45 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren, so there's no lack of places to spend his riches. Another Millionaire Lucille Sismanovich of Northampton, Pennsylvania, hit the jackpot for $1,581,515 on a Millionaire 777 dollar progressive slot machine at the Showboat Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. It is the first time this particular jackpot has been won in AC. Sismanovich hit the jackpot five months to the day after the last Millionaire 777 jackpot was won nationally in California. She played just $40 before hitting the 'big one'. "My husband and 1 wanted to get one last trip to Atlantic City in before the start of hunting season. I can't even imagine what I'm going to do with all that money," she exclaimed. Try This One! Robbie Jo Spray and her husband, who live in Graham, Washington, attended a wedding in North Dakota and decided to stop at Spirit Lake Casino. She was playing the Wheel when her husband encouraged her to try the Regis' Cash Club game. "I knew I had won something," Spray said, "but I didn't fully realize this was a progressive game." Plans were made quickly for the winnings of $1,317,998. "First we'll pay bills and then help our son decorate a new house, and also give some to our daughter." Pick This One Too! Gayle Hartman, a realtor from Princeton, Illinois, is $539,985 richer after a Wheel quarters MegaJackpot win at the Mississippi Belle II in Clinton, IA. Hartman said she was visiting the casino on a bus trip from Illinois to accompany her husband who was the bus driver. "My husband picked out a machine and told me to play it and no other. She played only put $4 before hitting the big progressive. "When it hit I got very excited and was very happy. This will make life much more comfortable." A Record-Breaker. Julio Cesar Chiquete Pena won $588.791 when he hit the Wheel nickel MegaJackpot at the Desert Diamond Casino in Tucson to set a record in Arizona. Pena, a carpet cleaner from Tucson, says he was drawn to the machine because "It was the first, I saw with the high progressive amount. Pena thought he had only won $1,300 and when he realized he won the MegaJackpot, he was "happy and very surprised." His winnings will buy a new home and be a positive change in his life. For a 'life-changing' jackpot of your own, I suggest this version online: Good Luck 'reelin' in those slot slots'. Gayle Mitchell is the author of Casino Gambling Made Easierbooks, EBooks, booklets & Slots Trilogy. |
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