[L.A.Justice]

Maybe I should make a $5 bet next time in a casino...

There was one time when I made a $3 bet on a slot machine...I did not win anything...

[gunsequalfreedom]

They had more than $5.00 in the machine before the jackpot hit.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

It's getting more and more difficult to find slot machines where you don't have to make at least a $5 bet.

Being able to win bonuses like this 1.5Mil win often requires the player to put in a max bet. A max bet will give you multipliers on multiple lines and bonuses if you hit certain combos while playing the max bet.

Even penny machines have ludicrous max bets where you can play up to 400 pennies a pull, i.e. $4 in order to take advantage of all the bonuses.

My mom and I like to play once or twice a year, but we often spend a lot of time hunting down the few old machines where the max bet is only 3 or 5 quarters. These machines will often wipe out our predetermined limits, but at least it will take a few hours rather than a few minutes.

I really don't see where all of the other folks playing the penny and dollar machines get the finances to stick it out for more than a few minutes at the newer machines.

[dfwgator]

Ward, you're pissing me off. Now you're insulting my intelligence; what you think I am, a f____' idiot? You know g____ well that someone had to get into those machines and set those f___in' reels. The probability of one four-reel machine is a million and a half to one; the probability of three machines in a row; it's in the billions! It cannot happen, would not happen, you f____' momo! What's the matter with you? Didn't you see you were being set up on the second win?

[Impala64ssa]

"the winner wished to remain anonymous"

A very wise move. It's situations like this where the relativity theory comes into play. The greater the assets, the closer the relatives.

[Secret Agent Man]

i am surprised the casino is paying out

everytime i hear about someone winning they claim its a software error

[Karl Spooner]

Afterall, it's Twilight Zone weekend.

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[ArcadeQuarters]

Future headline: Unlucky gambler turned $1.5M win into $0

[BipolarBob]

When I signed up at a local casino (so I could eat there at a discount), they gave away a free slot token. I didn’t win anything and therefore was not tempted. IF they had been smart they would have let me win $20 so I would get hooked. Lucky for me that didn’t happen.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

There was one time when I made a $3 bet on a slot machine...I did not win anything...

Thousands of people and millions of dollars met the same fate. The casino will be happy to publicize this win because it will bring in thousands of more suckers.

[Kartographer]

Most likely we will read tomorrow that after studying the slot machine in question there was a malfunction and the patron did not win the jackpot. The Venetian regretted the error and comp the patron with free buffet and drink vouchers a free room upgrade and a Venetian t-shirt and ball cap

[Oatka]

About 15 years ago I had a beer-money night stocker job at WalMart in Mesquite, NV. On my night off, a buddy of mine told me that one of the guys I worked with had his wife show up at 2 a.m. carrying a BIG copy of a check for something like $987,000 she had won on the Wheel of Fortune slot machine.

The guy didn’t show up any more. :-)

Met him a few weeks later and asked him if the took the full amount, less taxes. He said they wouldn’t let him, and doled it out to them in $45K+ payments for 20 years.

Five years ago, the neighbor across the street from me won $7,000 on the slots. He was a retired Marine and LIVED at the casino. His sister made him buy a used car else he would have fed it all back.