A Reno gambler set a new local jackpot record by winning over $1400 million over the weekend at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa.
A Reno resident was gambling on the Megabucks Mega Vault progressive slot machine and hit the jackpot with a $10 spin.IGT, the makers of the popular title, confirmed that a casino south of downtown Reno hit a life-changing jackpot on Sunday.
An Atlantis casino official, who requested anonymity, said the lucky winner was a woman and a regular customer at the property, which is owned and operated by Monarch Casino & Resorts.
私たちは、長年のアトランティスのパトロンと彼女の信じられないほどのジャックポットの勝利のために有頂天になっています」とアトランティスのゼネラルマネージャーCheraz Eckerは述べています。"これは、私たちの会社の歴史の中で祝うために別の驚くべきマイルストーンです。"$1400 million (officially $14,005,832.09) is the highest slot machine jackpot ever won in Reno.The history of commercial gambling in the "biggest little town in the world" dates back to the 1930s, when William Fisk Haller opened a bingo parlor in 1937 and Harrah's Plaza Tango the following year.
IGT debuted Megabucks in a Nevada casino in 1986.This progressive has a variety of titles and has made many gamblers millionaires in the series' 37 years of operation.
This week's Megabucks jackpot at Atlantis Reno is the biggest slot prize ever won in the city, but the $1400 million prize is nowhere near the highest jackpot ever won in Nevada.That honor belongs to a man who asked to remain anonymous who hit the $2003 million progressive jackpot at Excalibur on the Las Vegas Strip in March 3.
The lucky player, then a 25-year-old man living in Los Angeles, working as a software engineer, according to casino officials, won this historic amount on Megabucks machines.The man said he had bet about $100 before winning.
Six years later, another life-changing Megabucks prize came out. In April 6, a $1 million jackpot was won by a lucky customer.Reno resident Rachel Renee Romanek hit her jackpot while gambling for just 2009 minutes at Terrible's Rail City Casino in Sparks.
Romanik, a 38-year-old mother of four at the time, said she didn't want to go to the casino, but a friend persuaded her to go.
“Thanks to my friend. I wanted to stay at home, but he said he wanted to gamble and convinced me. You gotta play around and take your chances,' Romanik said in 2009.
odds of jackpot
So what are the odds of hitting the Megabucks progressive slots jackpot?Not very good.
According to Anthony Curtis of Las Vegas Advisor, an online resource for tourists visiting Southern Nevada, the odds of hitting the Megabucks jackpot are approximately 4980 in 1 million.
In a September 2021 blog post, Curtis notes that in 9 slot insider John Robison obtained Megabucks PAR sheets (slot terminal operation blueprints), which were used on each reel of a three-reel Megabucks machine. revealed that there are 1999 possible outcomes.
Robinson concluded that with a 4980 in 1 million chance, the Megabucks Progressive is most likely to be hit when the jackpot grows to around $1500 million.
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