Online Winners – Their Storiesby Gayle MitchellMake room for the Online Winners and the jackpot stories behind their large hits. At one time, Big Strikes were hit mainly at land-based casinos, but no more. 1) Mum-of-three Jo Collins is an online winner of more than £162,000 – a world record. Jo, a She said, ‘I’m going to pay off the mortgage, and the car, and go out to Jo is also a Meals on Wheels volunteer. She has been married for 35 years. She added, ‘I was at my daughter Melanie’s house when I realized I’d won a big prize. ‘We just went mad and danced around. When I told my husband Mervyn, he thought I’d picked up £1,600. You should have heard him when I explained that I had won over £160,000.' ‘I’m going to carry on with my driving job. The Special Needs kids rely on people like me to get them to school.’ The previous highest recorded win was £130,000. 2) $1.3 Million Video Poker Win: Bodog created a new online winner via the ‘double up’ feature on their Jacks or Better game. The anonymous player began his lucky streak when his $5 wager found a pair of queens earning him $5. And that’s when things went wild. With his small victory, he took advantage of the option to double up which gives players a 50% chance of winning each time. After doubling up successfully a further 16 times, the player topped out with a massive $1.3 million. “I thought about cashing out after breaking $40,000, but decided to continue,” said the player. “Then when I broke one million, I was tempted by the thought of doubling up on over one million dollars, but finally decided against it”. 3) Records were broken when Lucky Nugget Online Casino player, Jim L., won a staggering $1,683,526.64 on the Major Millions Progressive Jackpot, the largest single jackpot ever won on the Internet to date. The online winner, Jim L., a trucking company expediter in 4) A 90-cent bet by a Millionaires Club is a 9-line progressive slot that gives players anywhere an instant chance at a lottery-sized win paid out in one lump sum. The game, playable in US Dollars, Pounds Sterling or Euros, offers an initial jackpot amount of 175,000 in all three currencies that grows with every wager. The game combines multi-line slots with the excitement of a video slot bonus round. After a spin, the player can be transported to the bonus round, where they are faced with the first of three spinning wheels adorned with various no risk cash awards. The player is then awarded that amount in chips. But if the player lands on an arrow, the middle wheel begins spinning. Three consecutive arrows pay out the jackpot prize. 5) Prima Network’s Bad Beat progressive Jackpot paid out with smiles and cash for ten poker players. Prima launched the progressive jackpot with a $50,000 contribution that increased to $92,814 won when two players set the stage for an unbelievable poker tale. At a $1/$2 bad beat table, ‘DoctorHowser’ held pocket nines versus ‘Eldkvarn’s” 10c-8c. A flop of 7c-9c-6c turned the weaker hand into the nut straight flush, at the same time giving DoctorHowser the third nine. Eldkvarn called the $8 bet and the turn showed the 8s promoting the all-in push for $13.50 and call from Eldkvarn. But the river turned this bad read into a bad beat. Out came the 9d giving DoctorHowser 4 nines and though still not improving his hand to beat Eldkvarn, it did give him a good enough hand to take home the $32,484 bad beat jackpot. Eldkvarn walked away with a bigger bankroll as well, winning $16,242 for standing up to such an impressive hand. The Bad Beat Jackpot takes a bit of the rake from the pot and transfers it to a progressive jackpot. This prize is won when a player loses with at least four-of-a-kind eights or better. Additionally, 70% of the prize is shared among all players seated at the table. 6) Deal or No Deal's record Jackpot was won at a staggering £965,728, over £330,000 more than the game's previous record! The luckiest ever online winner is 27-year-old Emira B from Dewsbury in "Thank you so much. I'm in shock. It's unbelievable. I've just told my family. They sort of believe me! They didn't even know that I played. I told them to look and that I'd won the Jackpot. It's not sunk in yet. Oh my God." Emira fled to the After the win, Emira said about her future plans, "Me and my family will be sorted! I've got work tomorrow but don't know if I'll go. I work as a therapist in a Beauty Salon. Perhaps I'll buy one and be my own boss!" 7) HeidiB, a teacher from “I’ve been keeping an eye on the King Cashalot total, but had only wagered $40.50 when it happened.” said Heidi, the online winner. “I couldn’t believe I had actually won –it is still hard to believe. I’ve won smaller amounts during the 4 years that I have been playing online, but not even in my wildest dreams did I ever think I’ll be able to call myself a millionaire.” 8) Having placed $3.90 on RoxyPalace at online progressive slot King Cashalot, Amanda R from Taking home a cool $1,427,369.74, Amanda had spent $240 on the day before she won, and with her 61st spin took home the Jackpot. 9) The online winner decided to try out Slotsland’s unique games after learning that several are card games. "I just figured that there are more slots and players probably play the slots more often than the card games, which is why I see so many slot machine jackpots. I did recall Striking Sevens hitting recently, so I really was not expecting the jackpot by playing the card games. When the cards came up, I will never forget seeing that beloved jack of diamonds fall on the bottom line." 10) Brenda J, an online winner from The self-employed mother of 4 was stunned in describing her win. “When it first hit I did not believe it & played another round. Then I woke up my husband and asked him if I was crazy or did I just hit the Jackpot? First thing he asked was--are you playing for fun or real? I said for real, honey. He confirmed it and we both just gazed at each other in disbelief. I started shaking all over. Holy smoke, I did it, I just kept telling myself. It's still so hard to believe.” Future plans include braces for her youngest and pay some bills. Stayed tuned for more Winners Online... From Online Winners, you can return to Online Gambling Main page |