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Slots
Winners Report
February
Slots Winners Report for 2-25-08
The true ‘dream makers’ in the casino are certainly progressive
jackpots for
slot players.
Slots Winners Weekly Report brings you 5 jackpot winners who
tell their
‘life-changing’ stories.
1) Keep On Truckin’
Glenn Markell, a trucking company owner from California
had come from Sacramento
to Reno
to do some gambling.
Before hitting the Wheel of Fortune quarters for $1,494,319,
there is a story to tell. “We went to several downtown casinos to try
and cash
our reimbursement checks from the company, but none of them would cash
them.
Therefore, we came over to Sierra Sid’s because my
trucking
company had cashed checks here before. However, because we changed the
name of
the company, they had no record of us, so they couldn’t cash them
either. Then
I decided that we came here to gamble, so I called my sister and she
wired me
some cash.
I was playing a $1 Flip It machine and listening
to two
Russians who were playing the Wheel next to me. They were
having
fun so I
decided to give the game a shot, and sat down at the machine on the end
and put
in $5. I built up a few credits and then it hit.
The
Russians got very excited
and asked how much I had won. I pointed to the amount and they couldn’t
believe
it. I’m having a hard time believing it myself”
As to the future, Markell states, “I’m going to quite
driving now, but I will still help our around the company. We have just
a few
people working for us. One of them just won $6.8 million on the
lottery, and
now I win a million. What are the odds that two people in a small
company with
just 15 employees both win a million dollars?”
2) Cleaning
Up
A retired hospital worker, Jeanie Ciccone from Glendale,
AZ
wanted to relax
after finishing the task
of cleaning her garage. A trip to Gila River Quiva Casino and a
sit-down as the
Wheel quarter slots produced a big hit of $1,214,006. With a small cash
outlay
of only $60, the realization of a win brought on this exclamation: “Oh
wow!
Is
this real? How much did I win?”
The future for Ciccone includes spending her windfall with
her family.
3) A
Record-Breaker
Julio
Cesar Chiquete Pena was a winner of $588,791 when he hit the
Wheel
nickel MegaJackpot at the Desert Diamond Casino in Tucson
to set a record in Arizona.
Pena,
a carpet cleaner from Tucson,
says
he was drawn to the machine because “It was the first, I saw
with
the high progressive amount. Pena thought he had only won
$1,300 and when he realized he won the MegaJackpot, he was “happy and
very
surprised.”
His winnings will buy a new home and be a positive change in
his life.
4) Mortgage
Free for Super Slots Winner
Richard Sargent won $528,642
when he hit the dollar Wheel of
Fortune machine at the Bay Mills Resort and Casino, in
Brimley, MI. Sargent, VP
of a
trucking company, is from Pinckney,
Michigan.
He was on vacation and had only tossed in $15 when the hit
came.
“I called for my wife.
I couldn’t believe it!” Sargent said. Plans for his winnings
include paying off his house.
5) Smooth
Sailing Ahead for this Slots Winner
Stephen Abadie, a 3M Rep from Slidell,
LA,
was in Danbury,
WI.
visiting
friends and The Hole in the
Wall Casino. He decided to invest in the Wheel of Fortune
dollar machine with
an initial investment of only $12 when he hit the
progressive for $748,771.
“I was hoping to hit the spin,” he said. “I will be buying a
new boat and the rest will go toward our children’s college fund.”
Slots
Winners Report for 2-18-08
1) There's Only 1
Game for Me
William J. Clark, a retired firefighter from Albany,
NY,
had been
wintering in Florida
for the past 10 years and to see the West.
Being a gambler for the past 20 years, mostly on
horseracing, sports and table games, Bill and his friend received an
invitation
from Harrah's, Laughlin. "We always play at the Harrah's properties, so
we
arrived the day before the party and headed to Harrah's that evening.
As I stated," Bill explained, "I usually play the
table games, but my friend enjoys the slots, so I went over to
the machines with her and thought I'd try $29 in a $1 Wheel of
Fortune
machine.
I just started playing when the MegaJackpot hit for
$1,102,620.
I'm still in awe."
After
all that time betting on horseracing, football, and table games, this
winner
becomes a millionaire playing a slot machine.
Bill's first reaction was, "You know, I was calm when
it happened and it wasn't until a couple days later that I woke up
realizing
how much I actually won and how much responsibility comes with that
kind of
money." Bill added that they would like to move out west, maybe to Arizona
and travel back Florida
for the
racetracks.
Posing for his ' big check' pix, Bill said he couldn't wait
to distribute copies to his family and friends and, "This happens only
once in a lifetime and I'd like people to know what I've accomplished."
2) Millionaire Strike
in Reno
Dina Marie Thompson from Benicia,
CA
struck for
$1,180,231 at the Eldorado
Hotel Casino in Reno,
NV.
The Megajackpot was at a Wheel of Fortune quarter slot with
a small investment of $20. "I did not believe I won, somebody had to
tell
me", the shocked winner said.
Future plans include a
vacation and a mini-shopping spree.
Major changes according to Thompson: "Money matters will be less
stressful, and now I really believe that you can win gambling".
3) And She Said
Blue Water Resort and Casino in Parker, AZ was the place for
Larry Jackson who won $750,455 on a one-dollar Wheel of Fortune.
Jackson, a
retiree from Lake Havasu City,
Arizona,
had taken a day trip to the casino to play his favorite games.
Asked
about his plans, Jackson
stated, "that will be up to the wife."
4) Dream a Little-er
Big
Michele Marra was 'lost in her dreams' about winning 'the
big one' at Mohegan Sun when the $1 Wheel of Fortune game she
was
playing gave
her a chance to find out.
The Holbrook, NY, women had enough
time to dream up ways to
spend her $951,339 jackpot, that include a vacation, a new car,
remodeling her
home and putting money aside for her children's college funds. "Life
will
be easier," Marra said thanks to her dreaming.
5) Slots Winner: Waiting for a Hot
Dog
Christina Vontoussaint of League
City, TX
was in search of a hot dog at Mermaid's
Casino in Las Vegas,
but because it
was not open, she opted to play $20 at a quarter Wheel of Fortune slot
machine.
Not only did she receive a $340,756. payday, free hot dogs,
but it meant her
husband's birthday celebration was even sweeter.
She noted that her winnings will "allow my husband to
retire."
Slots
Winners Report for 2-11-08
1) What Does He Know?
“When it hit, I was stunned and shocked, but very happy. And
just before it hit, my husband told me that I didn’t have a chance in
hell of
winning.” stated Jacqueline Leroux of Social
Circle, GA.
Further, she had been winning on the slots all night at
Harrah’s, and had already won once on the same Wheel of Fortune machine
that
made her an instant millionaire. The lucky winner was too shocked to
think of
plans for her $1,097,200 win that I am sure will be shared with her
doubting
mate.
2)
Gracious
Winner and Loser
Add Jim Snavely to the list of
Wheel of
Fortune Millionaires. With just $20, the Oregon man decided to play the Wheel at
Fitzgerald's, Las Vegas
so he could be near his wife. Before he reached his wife, a woman beat
him to
it and sat down. She graciously gave up her seat to him and you all
know the
outcome.
Jim said after the jackpot win,
"She
came by again after I won and I asked her name and address because I
wanted to
send her something for being so nice and giving up the machine. I just
hit for
$1 million, but she just said congratulations and walked away.
I sort of felt bad for her."
"When the jackpot hit, I looked
up at
the progressive numbers that were flashing and I tried to figure out
where the
decimal points were.
I thought that I won $1,017,
but
then people
began congratulating me and I realized what I actually won was
$1,107,267 and
couldn't believe it. I still can't. I expect that any minute now I'm
going to
wake up and find this is all a dream."
Jim owns his own RV repair
company and stated
that he would use his winnings to help his children attend college.
Then he
said, "I will spend the rest of the money very wisely."
3) It's My Turn
Do you ever walk through a casino, like I do, and find
couples taking turns attacking the spin button on slots? Well, this
togetherness resulted in a $611,400 win for James & Leah Harman
of Truckee, CA.
All it took was $5, a visit to Boomtown Casino in Reno
and the right Wheel of Fortune progressive before the shock set in.
Leah got
the winning spin, but it didn't register in her mind immediately.
She was ready for another spin when James bellowed out a
“Don't touch that machine!” command, like any member of the US Air
Force can do
so well.
Leah observed the command and stated, “I was confused when
it hit. I thought it was broken because it didn't pay me anything.
No credits registered so I wanted to keep playing.” Getting
over the initial good fortune caused Leah to almost pass out at which
time an
ice pack was applied by a concerned casino employee.
She did muster up the strength to call her father with the
spectacular news.
4)
Number
9, Number 9
James Stowe won over $991,000
hitting the
dollar Wheel of Fortune.
His stated strategy was “the
person before me
had played a lot of money and I knew it was going to hit."
"Everyone is friendly and it
feels like
home" is the way he feels about the Grand Casino Coushatta in Kinder,
LA where
this retiree from Alvin,
TX hit the MegaJackpot.
This double winner was feeling
lucky after
winning $1000 on another machine and only investing $9 before the huge
Wheel of
Fortune hit.
Stowe plans to invest his
winnings and says,
"his win may not change his life, but it will make retirement even
better
than it already is."
5) A
Truckload of Yen
Hideki Isimoto, a trading
company
rep did not
understand how much he had won until it was translated into yen.
Hideki, a
Japanese visitor at Luxor Hotel & Casino, said he played the
quarter Wheel
of Fortune machine on impulse and was fortunate enough to hit a
MegaJackpot progressive
for $876,842.
After the translation, he said,
"I had
no idea that it was so much money. I'm still in shock!"
Slots
Winners Report for 2-4-08
1)
Try This One!
Robbie Jo Spray and her husband, who live in Graham,
Washington,
attended a wedding in North Dakota
and decided to stop at Spirit Lake Casino. She
was playing the Wheel when her husband encouraged her to try the Regis’
Cash
Club game. “I knew I had won something,”
Spray said, “but I didn’t fully realize this was a
progressive game.”
Plans were made quickly for the winnings
of $1,317,998.
“First we’ll pay bills and then help our son decorate a new house and
give some to our daughter.”
2) More than a Wooden
Nickel
Channaine Martin, 32 lined up a jackpot for $1,292,397. on a
nickel machine at Atlantic City’s
Caesars Casino. A resident of Forked
River, NJ,
she had played only $40 at a Jeopardy! slot
before the five symbols appeared. IGT’s Jeopardy! is part of
a system that links slot machines in AC casinos. These jackpots start
at
$500,000 and grow from there.
This winner is paid-on-the-spot.
“I just started
screaming Oh My God! Oh my God! said Martin,
a magazine editor by trade.
I screamed so much I lost my
voice.” She admits
that en route to Atlantic City,
she was overcome by a lucky feeling. “We had to
pull over on the parkway when we got stuck in a thunder storm and I got
this
weird feeling, but I knew that it was a good omen”.
I said
to my sister, “I
don’t know why, but this is a good omen and we’re going to win”
Martin’s idea
of a ‘big win’, however, was in the $200 to $400 range.
As for how this new millionaire plans to spend her fortune,
Martin says, she will pay off her mortgage and credit cards, and
purchase a new
car. She will also include a donation to Gilda’s Club, a nationwide
network of
facilities that assist cancer patients and their families plus a
heartfelt
‘thank you’ for her sister.
3) Dreaming Big
Even, though they had recently married in Las
Vegas, it was the Station Casino in St.
Charles, MO
that Janet Kell
thought about in her dream of a $ 2.9 million win.
“It was
so real, I just knew what I was going to do with the
money, I planned to pay bills for both me and my children, save some
for my
granddaughter’s education and invest the remaining funds.” was her
stated goal.
So, there was no complaining when a Double Diamond Wheel of
Gold produced a lesser amount of $783,225
only 10 minutes into the playing session.
A nearby player
commented, “What did you get?” Upon Janet’s
reply of “I’m not sure!”, to which this same player said, “I
think you got the big jackpot because you had three coins in.”
Once
the initial amazement fell away, Kell insisted that she
will keep her job even though her co-workers are wondering, “Why are
you here?”
4) Seven is the Charm
Sunday was slots day for Betty Johnson of Lithonia,
GA as
she made her
way to one of her
favorite casinos. After she discovered that another player was giving
up a
Quarters Deluxe machine to her, Betty’s good fortune arrived within an
hour to
render a $743,358 win.
As Betty tells it, “My first reaction
was, those are little
sevens, and maybe that’s why no money came out.” “No, wait, those are
red,
white and blue, I won something big!” This ‘big win’ will enable
Johnson to
share with her seven (yes, there’s that number again) grandchildren.
5) Slot Winners: Beginner's Luck
Althea Jones had never played slots before she decided to
head for Potawatomi Casino in WI while visiting relatives in nearby Milwaukee.
Gambling just $30. at a Wheel of Gold, she said. “The seat
was vacant, so I decided to play. It was my first time here, and I have
never
played before.”
When asked how she felt after realizing she
won $812,103,
Jones responded: “Nervous. I really didn't know what I won. My niece
told me.”
As for her plans, she said she was “going to have fun, pay off her
bills, and
get out of debt.”
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