We snapped this photo just a couple of days before the progressive hit. Good going on the timing there, intuition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe exact amount of the jackpot at MGM Grand (the big, green one) was $12,463,147.70. That sound you hear is the IRS popping open a bottle of Cristal.<\/p>\n
Megabucks slots are what’s called “progressive” machines. That means similar machines across a number of Las Vegas casinos are linked, with a constantly-growing common jackpot. When the big jackpot hits, it’s reset to a mere $10 million.<\/p>\n
Megabucks progressive slot machines have paid out jackpots bigger than a million bucks 24 times in 2013 alone.<\/p>\n
Even more importantly, the last time we played, we won $50. Tax free, though, so it’s almost as good as $12.5 million. And that’s the story we’re sticking to.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lady Luck has once again straddled the metaphorical lap of a slot machine player, this time at MGM Grand. A Megabucks slot machine paid out a jackpot of $12.5 million on Nov. 4, 2013. We don’t know anything else about the player who hit the jackpot, other than the fact they now have a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling","category-vegas","category-slots"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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