Do you play the penny slots for the sole purpose to get watered-down vodka tonics? It turns out that you might actually win some real money from the penny slots. One lucky SOB took home more than $1.6 million by playing those dumb penny slots that your girlfriend makes you sit at while you only want to go to the blackjack table.
We take you to the Valley View Casino & Hotel in Valley Center, California, where one man won a ton of moolah. The gambling gentleman was playing the IGT Wheel of Fortune Ultra Wheels penny slot when he hit it big. Robert won $1,664,509.91 from his spin.
The man only identified as Robert S said this about his improbable payout, “I’m still in shock.” But it took two full days for the Valley View Casino & Hotel to finalize his payment that stressed out the winning gambler. “I couldn’t sleep for two days,” Robert said. “I was up tossing and turning and thought they would call me and say the machine malfunctioned.”
Robert was right to worry because one woman was not rewarded her jackpot because the casino said the “machine malfunctioned.” In 2016, Katrina Bookman won nearly $43 million while playing the Sphinx Slot Machine at Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York. The casino said the machine malfunctioned and she hadn’t won anything and offered her a steak dinner instead. Bookman ended up suing the casino for the winnings.
Robert says he plans to invest the money for the future and plans to start his retirement a couple of years earlier than he had planned. That is after the government takes their hefty cut.
Vegas Clicks gives you an idea on how low the odds are to hit a major jackpot on a slot machine:
In general, the higher the jackpot, the harder it is to hit. Exactly as you should expect. The lowest odds I’ve found are 1 in 32,768 (for a 1000-coin jackpot on a flavor of Red White & Blue), and the longest are 1 in 49,836,032, for Megabucks, which has a multi-million-dollar top prize.
Did Robert S set the reels? Now we take you to what we think may have been the exchange between the slot machine supervisor and the casino floor manager after the dude won $1.6 million on a penny slot.
[NBCNews]