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$42 Million jackpot was false alarm

karen — Sun, 09 May 2010 03:01:55 +0000

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 by the casino officials that the machine displayed a faulty message and that the highest jackpot they could award was just $250,000. Apparently Ms Chavez for was compensated for the money that she put into the slot machine which was a total of $23 and given a free hotel room and breakfast. The Colorado state gaming board is investigating the matter to see if either the casino or Ms Chavez is at fault. Ms Chavez has gone public about her ordeal and has given several interviews on TV and radio talk shows. She is convinced that the casino is attempting to cheat her out of her winnings although it is not yet known whether she will sue the casino.

First Ever Slot Tournament Millionaire

karen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:14:45 +0000

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 to complete, the winner has been announced!! One lucky player from South London, Stefan (alias Pattoned), is the winner taking home the enviable 1 million euro jackpot! He was just one of thousands who entered the qualifying games and apparently qualified back in July with a tiny 2 Euro bet!

The final tournament was the cult-favourite Tomb Raider slot game with over 8,000 players competing fiercely. Apparently Stefan played for days until he finally posted the winning score on his birthday to scoop the history-breaking jackpot as his birthday present to himself! Some 481 other players pocketed some winnings from the total juicy prize pool of 1.3 million Euros. In fact, the runner up, Rick H, shouldn’t feel too hard done by with his tidy €50,000 prize.

After months of excitement and buzz amongst the online slot community, Microgaming has certainly staked its place in the history of online gaming by creating the first ever online slot tournament millionaire.

Microgaming: Software Giant

karen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:31:36 +0000

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 gambling industry and there’s no doubt that it’s here to stay.
Microgaming has paid out over $250 to its players since it was established.

It continually offers players new and innovative games and is widely regarded as setting the highest standards within the industry for fair and safe gaming. One of the casinos that it supports that I enjoy playing at is the Fortune Room Casino

Lotto Record In Italy

karen — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:29:34 +0000

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 be part of the action. Apparently even the church expressed concern over the size of the jackpot and called for it to be capped. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if winning the world’s second ever biggest jackpot changes the winner’s life for the better but I doubt it somehow ….