A Tourist Bet $5 At A Vegas Casino And Left With $10.3 Million!

A visitor from Atlanta walked into the Westgate Las Vegas, found a slot machine, put in five dollars, and walked out three minutes later with $10,292,912.32. The jackpot hit on an IGT Megabucks machine while the guest was playing a game called Wolf Run Eclipse, and it happened so quickly that casino staff and fellow guests barely had time to process what they had just witnessed before the winner was surrounded by a crowd of people who were very happy for someone they had never met. The Megabucks network is a linked progressive system that pools contributions from machines across multiple casinos to build its grand prize, meaning the jackpot that hit at the Westgate on Tuesday had been growing for months and required no special bet size, no loyalty card, and no particular strategy to win. Just five dollars and a machine that decided, for the first time in a long while, that it was ready.

Cami Christensen, president and general manager of Westgate Las Vegas, said Las Vegas is built on unforgettable moments and that it does not get much more memorable than turning a five dollar bet into more than ten million. The winner, who chose to remain anonymous, celebrated with other guests and casino floor workers before leaving the property as a multi-millionaire. Megabucks is one of the oldest and largest networked slot jackpot systems in Nevada, and wins of this scale have been recorded at the Westgate before: the casino was previously known as the Las Vegas Hilton, where a 25-year-old software engineer won a then-record $39.7 million Megabucks jackpot in 2003, still the largest slot machine payout in Las Vegas history. Tuesday's winner will not be topping that record, but at just over ten million dollars for a five dollar investment on a three-minute session, the argument could be made that the return on investment was nearly identical.

Source:https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/las-vegas-casino-winner-tourist-westlake-b2998533.html