One slot player, Louise Chavez, at the Fortune Valley Hotel and Casino in Colorado was bitterly disappointed recently when she learnt that she didn’t in fact win the $42 million jackpot as she had thought. This was a nationwide jackpot and one of the biggest in the history of Colorado. The player saw her machine display the message that she had won the progressive jackpot.  However, she was then informed...

Way back in April this year Microgaming (the world’s largest provider of online gaming software) announced a new tournament, the ‘Grand Slam of Slots’, which would create the first ever online slot tournament millionaire. And now finally after months and months of qualifying games and competitions between July and October, and the highly anticipated and competitive finale that took 11 days...

Microgaming was founded in 1990 and still is considered to be one of the power houses and leaders in online casino software providers. Check out these impressive stats: Microgaming powers over 120 casinos and 40 poker rooms. Microgaming runs the world’s largest jackpot network – a total of 25 progressive jackpots.  Having been founded in 1990, its one of the oldest in the online...

Some (lucky?) player in Italy has just won a staggering $211.8 USD million in lotto which has been billed as Europe’s biggest ever jackpot. There was near hysteria leading up to the draw since it had gone unclaimed since January. If you thought the slot machines had bad odds, this lotto draw had odds of one in 622 million!  Tourists from all over Europe were visiting Italy and scrabbling to buy tickets and...