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Believe it or not, however, the penny slots are not the most popular slot machines. In Vegas-style casinos, as well as at online slot machine parlors on the Web, those slots requiring a quarter to bet have historically been the most popular. The slot gambling industry is actually pretty flexible. You have the option of playing penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, or dollar slots, with some machines requiring even more! Because some machines have multiple paylines, you could spend more as a bet on these devices than the minimum bet. A penny slot machine with twenty paylines would cost you twenty cents, for example. Again, the penny slots are attractive in this sense – players can experience the heady feeling of maxing out the bet on a slot, with all the paylines filled, for pocket change!

The standing record for a slot machine jackpot landed by a nickel slot player was almost $3.2 million, landed by a cab driver in Vegas who was off-duty and decided to stop in to play the slots. The biggest slot game jackpot hit on a quarter slot was the princely sum of $13.7 million that was nailed on a progressive jackpot game in a land casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Interestingly, the fifty-cent slot game jackpot is a good deal less – just $6.1 million. The town of Atlantic City, New Jersey, has the highest concentration of half-dollar slot games in America, and that’s where this record was set. Fifty cent slots tend to fall in a no-man’s-land for bettors… they cost more than the quarter slots, but don’t really appeal to the high-rollers who go in for the dollar bets. And speaking of the dollar slots, that’s where the lottery-esque record of just under FORTY MILLION DOLLARS was set by a lucky twenty-five year old software engineer on vacation in 2003. This fellow flew to Vegas for the weekend to check out the NCAA basketball championship and went home a multi-millionaire. We hope he sprung for first-class seats!

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