Black Oak Casino Player Wins $3.8 Million Jackpot
Date Posted : January 5, 2009

Martin Moreno, a 46 year old father of four did what most slot machine players only ever dream of when he hit the jackpot on a progressive slot. Playing the Marilyn Monroe Mega Jackpots game from IGT at the Black Oak Casino in Tuolumne his max bet spin awarded the top jackpot of just over $3,800,000.

Martin had this to say about his big win - "I didn’t know this was the big one, I can’t believe it". Clearly a life changing jackpot for Mr Moreno who also said that his kids will be thrilled with the win. It just goes to show that while the chances of winning a big jackpot are small it does happen.

Ron Patel, General Manager of the Black Oak Casino was just as excited about the win - "Black Oak Casino is thrilled for our biggest winner ever, and hope 2009 continues to bring him such good luck to our players".

In terms of the biggest jackpots, IGT's Mega Jackpots range hold every world record when it comes to jackpots at land-based casinos. The biggest ever jackpot win was won back in 2003 on Mega Bucks and was a huge $39,710,826.36.

Online the biggest ever jackpot win was won in 2007 on the Millionaires Club progressive which paid out just over USD $8,000,000 (The jackpot was won in Euros). There have been quite a few million dollar plus jackpots won online and thousands of jackpots won of six figures or lower.

The biggest difference between winning a jackpot online compared to winning at a traditional brick and mortar casino is that online you get the money in one lump sum while at a land casino you get paid in installments.

If you want to find out what the current jackpots are in your local area casinos then IGT's MegaJackpots (http://www.megajackpots.com) is the place to go.