Jackpot

The weekend reportage of WFSB TV in the United States featured a tragic but at the same time uplifting story of a $10 million lottery gift from the grave.

Finishing 2008 in style this week, and getting 2009 off to a running start, William Hill Casino player SimonB cracked a sublime £227,054 progressive jackpot on the Pharaoh's Treasure slot. on a 40p winning line!

Online gamblers have another million dollar jackpot on offer following this week's Real Time Gaming announcement that its Jackpot Pinatas progressive jackpot has moved over the million dollar level.

When 21-year-old UK online gambler Matt Styles hit an almost £200,000 jackpot at Ladbrokes last Friday he initially feared it was just a wind-up, but he soon realised it was for real, and is now making financial plans he would not previously have thought possible.

Winning one big-value progressive is a rare lifetime event for most, but for William Hill Casino player SophieM from Peterborough in the UK good fortune smiled again this week with another life-changing win - this time for £84,978 on the Gold Rush Showdown progressive slot.

It's a special weekend for one as yet unidentified Internet gambler, who is probably still celebrating one of those life-changing progressive slot wins. Playing the Playtech-powered Beach Life progressive at Joyland casino, this lucky individual hit a jackpot of $4,238,508 Friday, which ranks right up there with some of the biggest jackpots in online gambling history.

Thursday saw a new world record for an online poker Bad Beat Jackpot created at Party Poker when a bad beat payout on an online table reached $1,013,381 and change, surpassing the previous record of $992,000. The Bad Beat is a jackpot won on special tables if players lose with a hand featuring four of a kind, 8’s or better, and this is what happened to online player ‘Judith75’, from Germany when she hit quad 9’s this week.

A Spanish online gambler couldn't believe his luck this week when the progressive slot machine Lotto Madness awarded him a fantastic €257,250 payout at Playtech-powered Casino Tropez.

A CS Casino (formerly Sands of the Caribbean Casino) online player Toronto in Canada is the latest recipient of progressive slot largesse from the popular Cryptologic-powered "Rags to Riches" game. The Canadian, a longtime CS Casino player, cashed for $235,853 this week on bets of a few dollars, collecting the reward after playing the game on a regular basis for some years.

We've been waiting and watching and waiting some more as Microgaming's Mega-Moolah jackpot increased steadily over the past few months. Well the good news is that it has finally been won at the very tidy sum of over $5.5 million, but the bad news is of course that you or I didn't win it!