\nWe’re ecstatic for our longtime Atlantis patron and her incredible jackpot win,”<\/strong> said Atlantis General Manager Cheraz Ecker. “This is another amazing milestone to celebrate in our company’s history.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe $14 million win — officially $14,005,832.09 — is the richest slot machine jackpot ever won in Reno. Commercial gambling in “The Biggest Little City in the World” dates back to the 1930s, when William Fisk Harrah opened a bingo parlor in 1937 and Harrah’s Plaza Tango the following year.<\/p>\n
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Mega Winnings on Megabucks<\/b><\/h2>\n IGT debuted Megabucks<\/em> inside Nevada casinos in 1986. The progressive has an array of titles, and the terminals have made many gamblers extraordinarily wealthy over the series’ 37 years in operation.<\/p>\n\n
While this week’s Megabucks<\/em> jackpot hit at the Atlantis Reno is the largest slots prize ever won in the city, the $14 million haul is far from the top jackpot ever won in Nevada. That honor belongs to a man who wished to remain anonymous after winning a $39.7 million progressive jackpot at the Excalibur on the Las Vegas Strip in March 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe lucky player, a then-25-year-old from Los Angeles who told casino officials he worked as a software engineer, also won the historic sum on a Megabucks<\/em> machine. The man said he had gambled about $100 before the win.<\/p>\nSix years later, another life-altering Megabucks<\/em> prize was won. That involved a $33 million jackpot being hit by a lucky guest in April 2009. Reno resident Rachael Renee Romanick had been gambling for only about 10 minutes at Terrible’s Rail City Casino in Sparks when she struck it rich.<\/p>\nRomanick, a mother of four who was 38 years old then, said she didn’t want to go to the casino, but her friend convinced her to tag along.<\/p>\n
“I really owe it to my friend. I wanted to stay home, but he wanted to gamble and convinced me to join him. I said to myself, ‘Why not? If you’re going to win big, you have to play big and take a chance,'” Romanick said in 2009.<\/p>\n
Jackpot Odds<\/b><\/h2>\n So, what are your chances of hitting a Megabucks<\/em> progressive slot jackpot? Not good.<\/p>\nAccording to Anthony Curtis of Las Vegas Advisor<\/i>, an online resource for visitors to Southern Nevada, the chances of hitting a Megabucks<\/em> jackpot is about 1 in 49.8 million.<\/strong><\/p>\nDuring a September 2021 blog post, Curtis explained that in 1999, slots insider John Robison obtained a Megabucks PAR sheet, the operating blueprint for a slot terminal, revealing each reel on a three-reel Megabucks<\/em> machine has 368 possible outcomes.<\/p>\nUsing the one in 49.8 million probability, Robinson concluded that a Megabucks<\/em> progressive is likeliest to hit when the jackpot has grown to around $15 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gambler in Reno has set a new local jackpot record after winning a more than $14 million prize over the weekend while playing at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa. The Reno resident was gambling on a Megabucks Mega Vault progressive slot machine when her $10 spin hit the jackpot. IGT, the gaming manufacturer of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":267406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,69293],"tags":[85720,82048,82508,84824,82060,81890],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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