What do you think one of the main reasons why people love to gamble is? Sure, casino gambling is a huge amount of fun, however there is a more important reason why there are so many gamblers around in the modern-day – huge jackpot prizes. Casino jackpot wins can have the power to change your life, so it is no wonder that millions and millions of hopeful gamblers descend on casinos and online casinos year in and year out with the hope of winning.
In the current crop of casino games it is slots that can often offer the largest jackpots, especially considering the incredibly popular world of progressive jackpot slots such as the infamous Las Vegas Megabucks machines and Cashzuma. More recently Microgaming’s Progressive Jackpot Network has paid out several massive jackpots over a million too. It got us thinking – what are some of the biggest slot jackpots in the 20th and 21st centuries? Let’s take a look!
All the way back in 2003 an anonymous Las Vegas gambler won the biggest slot jackpot ever recorded, bagging an absolutely ridiculous sum of $39.8 million off of a Megabucks slot machine in the Excalibur Hotel & Casino. And you know what the most impressive part of this is? The fact that this incredibly lucky gambler hit the jackpot off of his first spin!
Now, this is easily enough money to completely set you up for life, so it really is no wonder that so many gamblers love the Las Vegas Megabucks machines. Ironically, this lucky gambler apparently hadn’t told his wife he was going to Las Vegas to gamble, so he couldn’t even tell her straight away! We’re sure she didn’t mind though…
In January 2000 an aspiring waitress called Cynthia Jay Brennan was lucky enough to bag a huge $34.9 million jackpot off of a Las Vegas Megabucks machine at the Desert Inn Casino. Amazingly she only went in for a few carefree spins to de-stress after a particularly demanding shift at work, but little did she know that she would end up a multi-millionaire!
This is unfortunately a rather tragic story, however, as a few months later Cynthia Jay Brennan was involved in a car crash that left her all but paralyzed.
For most people winning a life changing slot jackpot prize is something that can only really happen once, and even in this case the likelihood is that the vast majority of us slot gamblers will never know what it feels like to receive a multi-million dollar slot jackpot. Some people are just lucky though… Why don’t you ask the retired air stewardess that bagged a $680,000 jackpot on Mega Fortune, and then a $27.5 million jackpot a few years later on a Megabucks slot?
Oh yes, this happened back in 2000, something that proved it isn’t impossible to win two hefty jackpots in the space of a few years!