Top 5 of the biggest casino wins ever
Have you ever wondered, in which casinos the biggest jackpots can be found? We’ll only say this much: If you look at the five biggest casino winnigs of the last years, it’s pretty clear…
5th place: What a happy 74th birthday!
The pensioner Johanna Heundl, a native Austrian, hit the jackpot of a Megabucks slot on her 74th birthday. Megabucks are slot machines, which exist mostly in the state of Nevada and has a shared jackpot. She was super happy, when she thought she had won 2.2 million US dollars. She couldn’t believe her luck, when the casino told her that her first glance was wrong: She actually won more than 22 million US dollars for her sunset years!
4th place: The 10 dollar millionaire
A 49-year-old business consultant won more than 21.3 million US dollar at a Megabucks slot – with his first 10 dollars he put in the slot! This actually happened in 1999 at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. What he did with his sudden wealth is still a big secret…
3rd place: Doubled luck
The chances to win twice at a slot machine are extremely low. But a 67-year-old woman was actually that lucky: First, she tripled her 100 US dollar stakes at a slot machine in Las Vegas. Right after that, she hit the 27.5 million dollar jackpot at the Megabucks machine. Believe it or not, it wasn’t her first winning: Years ago, she already won 680,000 US dollar in a casino.
2nd place: The tragedy of a new millionaire
Sometimes Hollywood can’t write more dramatic screenplays than the real life does: In 2000, the waitress Cynthia Jay-Brennan won the second highest amount of money at a Megabucks machine in Las Vegas ever: 35 million US dollars. Only a few weeks later, a drunken driver crossed a red light and hit her car. Her sister died and Cynthia is paralyzed from the upper chest down forever.
1st place: The biggest casino winning ever
Guess, where the biggest jackpot ever got hit? Of course: Las Vegas – and again at a Megabucks machine. In 2003, a 25-year-old software engineer won the record sum of 40 million US dollars. More information about him were not revealed. But he can’t get very boisterous: Because of the law situation in the United States he only get 1.5 million US dollars per year.
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