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Late Player Wins Big Jackpot

Sometimes it pays to stay late – just ask Eric L. Alexander of Erie. Alexander was playing the two cent progressive slots at Presque Isle Downs and Casino when he hit the jackpot – 35 minutes before the casino was due to close for the night.

Alexander, 25, said that he had been at Doc Holliday’s Country Bar over on Shultz Road with some buddies and when it closed for the night they were going to go over to the casino. Alexander went along for a lark, never expecting that he would hit it big.

And hit it he did – to the tune of $99,350.96. The progressive slots had been growing since the casino opened in February of last year according to the casino. He said that he had put I about $80 or $100 on the other slots and then stuck in a $100 voucher in the one that would ultimately pay off for him.

He said he had only put $4 in the slots game when it hit. He said he paid his federal taxes on the spot, roughly $30,000, so that he would not have to worry about it at the end of the year. A disc jockey at the Boardwalk, he says he is going to have some fun with half of it and invest the rest.

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