Quote:Published October 21, 2025 7:12pm EDT
Nevada player turns $3 bet into $1M jackpot on 'Wheel of Fortune' progressive slot machine
Las Vegas local hit progressive slot at Henderson casino, with IGT reporting $100K+ jackpots every 72 hours
By Greg Wehner FOXBusiness

A $3 bet turned into a million-dollar miracle Friday when a lucky Nevada player hit it big on a "Wheel of Fortune" slot machine.

"Congratulations to a local guest on hitting an incredible $1,048,675.87 jackpot playing IGT’s Wheel of Fortune Cash Link Big Money at Sunset Station last night!" the Sunset Station Hotel and Casino posted on Facebook.

The casino shared the update in a celebratory post on Saturday, sparking multiple congratulatory comments from fans and fellow gamblers online.

The post included an image of the progressive video slot machine, showing a grand prize of $1,048,675.87 at the top. Other potential payouts listed included one just over $10,100 and another for nearly $1,200.


A casino guest won more than $1 million on a "Wheel of Fortune" slot machine in Nevada on Oct. 17, 2025, after turning a $3 bet into a life-changing jackpot. (David Becker/Getty Images)

The "Wheel of Fortune" Cash Link Big Money machine is a progressive slot, meaning the prize pool grows each time a player wagers, often across multiple linked machines in different locations.

Sunset Station told FOX Business the winner is a Las Vegas resident.

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Speaking of jackpots, the current Mega Millions payout is now in the top 10 all time. $680M.

Google search:

Quote:No one won the Mega Millions jackpot last night, Tuesday, October 21, 2025. However, one ticket sold in Illinois matched the five white balls to win a second-tier prize of $3 million, thanks to a 3X Megaplier.

Here are the details from last night's drawing:

Winning Numbers: 2, 18, 27, 34, 59
Mega Ball: 18

Next Jackpot: The top prize has now rolled over to an estimated $680 million for the next drawing, on Friday, October 24.

This happened in September at a Casino in Michigan:

Quote:The lucky player had placed a $5 Bonus Spin Xtreme side bet during a blackjack game when a mystery "must hit" progressive was triggered. This turned "an ordinary hand to a history-making payout" of $1,376,465.30, the casino said.

Sometimes I play the Texas MegaMillions and I wonder to myself, "what would I do with so much money?"

It's actually scary because there's so much that would impact your life that it's really mindboggling. Honestly, I don't EVEN need the money, I'm set for life (thank you Lord) but I play because I'm a cheap gambler, dollar here, dollar there. I do it for the fun of it.

I just wonder if he did what Dale Cooper did. (I love Twin Peaks. lol)

(10-22-2025 06:57 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  This happened in September at a Casino in Michigan:

Quote:The lucky player had placed a $5 Bonus Spin Xtreme side bet during a blackjack game when a mystery "must hit" progressive was triggered. This turned "an ordinary hand to a history-making payout" of $1,376,465.30, the casino said.

I never forgave myself one day on the blackjack table.. i was playing the sidebet all night.. (7-7-7). (basically $1 down, if you draw 7-7-7's you get $5K... (odds are like something like 2495 to 1 on a standard six deck shoe)

Ran out of $1 chips so I let it slip one hand.. yep, you guessed it.. 7-7-7 deal.

Employees at the Isle of Capri in Tunica jokingly blamed me for their upcoming shutdown after I accidentally wandered into their high roller slot room one evening and played what I thought was a $1 dollar life of luxury machine. I put a $100 bill in, pressed max coin which I thought was going to be $3. It turned out to be a 45 line machine, so I saw $45 bucks evaporate. But it hit something for a few hundred bucks, so I kept playing it. I hit a $3800 hand pay, a $3600 hand pay, at the same time I had ran the credits on the machine up to almost $4K.

Then 5 yachts lined up in a diagonal pattern. $30K.


And that wasnt a simple hand pay. That required the floor boss to sign off on the hit and open the machine and check the computer card serial number. Only problem with that was that the floor boss had just put in 72 hours straight at the hotel because it was labor day weekend. His house was 3 hours away. He got a cell phone call 2 hours into his trip back home to tell him he had to turn around and drive back to tunica.

He was not happy. He didnt even offer to take my picture.

A week or two later, The Isle of Capri announced they were shutting down, so when the employees saw me again, they joked that I had did it.

It was too bad, the hotel and seafood buffet was excellent.

(10-22-2025 12:54 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(10-22-2025 06:57 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  This happened in September at a Casino in Michigan:

Quote:The lucky player had placed a $5 Bonus Spin Xtreme side bet during a blackjack game when a mystery "must hit" progressive was triggered. This turned "an ordinary hand to a history-making payout" of $1,376,465.30, the casino said.

I never forgave myself one day on the blackjack table.. i was playing the sidebet all night.. (7-7-7). (basically $1 down, if you draw 7-7-7's you get $5K... (odds are like something like 2495 to 1 on a standard six deck shoe)

Ran out of $1 chips so I let it slip one hand.. yep, you guessed it.. 7-7-7 deal.

Ouch!

(10-22-2025 01:47 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Employees at the Isle of Capri in Tunica jokingly blamed me for their upcoming shutdown after I accidentally wandered into their high roller slot room one evening and played what I thought was a $1 dollar life of luxury machine. I put a $100 bill in, pressed max coin which I thought was going to be $3. It turned out to be a 45 line machine, so I saw $45 bucks evaporate. But it hit something for a few hundred bucks, so I kept playing it. I hit a $3800 hand pay, a $3600 hand pay, at the same time I had ran the credits on the machine up to almost $4K.

Then 5 yachts lined up in a diagonal pattern. $30K.


And that wasnt a simple hand pay. That required the floor boss to sign off on the hit and open the machine and check the computer card serial number. Only problem with that was that the floor boss had just put in 72 hours straight at the hotel because it was labor day weekend. His house was 3 hours away. He got a cell phone call 2 hours into his trip back home to tell him he had to turn around and drive back to tunica.

He was not happy. He didnt even offer to take my picture.

A week or two later, The Isle of Capri announced they were shutting down, so when the employees saw me again, they joked that I had did it.

It was too bad, the hotel and seafood buffet was excellent.

That's funny. Surprised they didn't claim a machine malfunction and void your win.

Gotta love casinos. If you lose too much, they don't say a word, but when you win a bunch, they try to kick you out.

(10-22-2025 02:13 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(10-22-2025 01:47 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Employees at the Isle of Capri in Tunica jokingly blamed me for their upcoming shutdown after I accidentally wandered into their high roller slot room one evening and played what I thought was a $1 dollar life of luxury machine. I put a $100 bill in, pressed max coin which I thought was going to be $3. It turned out to be a 45 line machine, so I saw $45 bucks evaporate. But it hit something for a few hundred bucks, so I kept playing it. I hit a $3800 hand pay, a $3600 hand pay, at the same time I had ran the credits on the machine up to almost $4K.

Then 5 yachts lined up in a diagonal pattern. $30K.


And that wasnt a simple hand pay. That required the floor boss to sign off on the hit and open the machine and check the computer card serial number. Only problem with that was that the floor boss had just put in 72 hours straight at the hotel because it was labor day weekend. His house was 3 hours away. He got a cell phone call 2 hours into his trip back home to tell him he had to turn around and drive back to tunica.

He was not happy. He didnt even offer to take my picture.

A week or two later, The Isle of Capri announced they were shutting down, so when the employees saw me again, they joked that I had did it.

It was too bad, the hotel and seafood buffet was excellent.

That's funny. Surprised they didn't claim a machine malfunction and void your win.

Gotta love casinos. If you lose too much, they don't say a word, but when you win a bunch, they try to kick you out.

I will admit that the way that machine paid off, they probably had security looking at tapes while they were waiting for the boss to arrive.

having worked for the Isle for 20 years or so, before they sold out and moved to California...

When we first started up , we RARELY invoked the malfunction clause.. Not to say it didn't happen, but if it did, they'd try to make it right with the customer with something reasonable. If they refused, then it got into the "malfunction voids all plays"

As we got bigger our departments became more corpo-speak... we appointed one guy to be our IT Vice President who wanted to turn the IT department into "The first It department designed to make money".

WTF?? You don't run IT to make money, you run IT to help others avoid money losses!

(10-22-2025 12:54 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(10-22-2025 06:57 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  This happened in September at a Casino in Michigan:

Quote:The lucky player had placed a $5 Bonus Spin Xtreme side bet during a blackjack game when a mystery "must hit" progressive was triggered. This turned "an ordinary hand to a history-making payout" of $1,376,465.30, the casino said.

I never forgave myself one day on the blackjack table.. i was playing the sidebet all night.. (7-7-7). (basically $1 down, if you draw 7-7-7's you get $5K... (odds are like something like 2495 to 1 on a standard six deck shoe)

Ran out of $1 chips so I let it slip one hand.. yep, you guessed it.. 7-7-7 deal.

not quite as big of an 'ouch', but when the 'sip started the pick-3, nuts went with the standing combo of, yep, 420 ... in the first year, it hit three times (1500 return if 365 days) ... only problem was nuts cleaned up that morning and his myopia coupled with not checking Sunday's result turned into the folllowing ... walked into the Shell station I always stopped to buy the next set of 420s ... dude behind the counter laughed when I walked in ... "you hit, man!" ... "hit what?", I replied ... "420 hit!" ... I looked in my pocket and realized what my dumbarse had just done ... guess what runs early on Monday ... yep, Mr. Garbage Man ... yeah, I LITERALLY tossed away 500 (499 for the sticklers) clams ...