Biggest jackpot winners

Every gambler thought at least once what if he’s going to win the big jackpot. It’s an intriguing thought that motivates you to continue playing. Some of the lucky players did win the jackpot and changed their life completely.

The biggest on land casino winners played the huge progressive jackpot game called Megabucks in Las Vegas casinos. The jackpot starts at $7 million and goes up until the lucky winner appears. Megabucks game has a network of slot machines in over 150 locations throughout Nevada State and all players contribute to a higher jackpot.

Elmer Sherwin is the winner of Megabucks jackpot and proves that luck can hit twice. He won the Megabucks jackpot two times in sixteen years. The first time he won $4.6 million and the second time, at the age of 92, he won the biggest Megabucks jackpot: $21 million. His first jackpot allowed him to travel the world and says it was time to give back so with the second huge jackpot helped Hurricane Katrina victims.

The largest jackpot ever won in the American capital of luck is $39.7 million and was won in March 2003 at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino. The lucky winner was a 25 year man from Los Angeles visiting Vegas for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. He sat down at a slot machine to play for a while and investing $100 for a game walked away with $1.5 million dollars a year for the next 25 years.

Although on land casinos have huge jackpots, the exponential growth of the online casino industry is reflected in the online jackpots that grow bigger every day.

The biggest online jackpot ever won is $5.5 million at the Blackjack Ballroom Online Casino. The lucky winner is Klaus E. from Finland that on the 22 April 2008 placed a $0.50 bet on the Mega-Moolah Progressive Slot Machine and became $5,556,753.68 richer.

Blackjack Ballroom is a partner of the CasinoRewards group, who has been in operation since September, 2000 and has a total of 18 popular online casinos under its loyalty program. CasinoRewards.com is part of the Microgaming community and this jackpot win has been the biggest for both established groups. Klaus become the 4th Member of the CasinoRewards Millionaires' club, and with him the total progressives’ wins in the CasinoRewards Network reached over $27 Million Dollars.

As you can see from Klaus’ story the online casinos have a great advantage: every one older than 18 can play from everywhere in the world. All you need is an internet connection.

If you want to give it a try and see if you’re lucky you can join Blackjack Ballroom right now. Mega Moolah Progressive Jackpot is now at $1,117,650 and is growing every second. Good luck!