Jackpot

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!