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The Biggest Slot
Jackpots (3 of 3)
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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