This story is sponsored by Party Poker
A PartyPoker.com player scooped more than US$7.5m on the Melon Madness slot jackpot at the weekend with a $3 spin.
The player had decided to try his luck with $21 left over from registering for the Montreal WPT event, with a view to doubling up and registering for another tournament.
After only two or three spins, the 46-year-old hit the $7,525,851.86 jackpot, the largest in PartyCasino.com’s long history.
The father-of-three, who left his job two years ago to try his hand at poker full time, joked that it had taken him that long to realise he was a “mediocre” poker player but only a few spins “to realise that I’m really, really good at slots.”
To put the win in perspective in terms of his chosen career, the win would place him 12th on the all-time list of WSOP money winners, even ahead of current day legend Phil Ivey. Confirming the win, the online casino also pointed out that it would also buy him 2.5 million watermelons!
The jackpot ranks among the largest among those handed out by a standalone – rather than a networked – online casino operator.
The world record for a single online slots payout, as independently verified by Guinness World Records, was broken in January of this year, when a middle-aged man from Helsinki playing at Paf won €17,736,375 on Stockholm-based provider Net Entertainment’s networked Mega Fortune slot.
This smashed the previous mark of €11,736,375 set in September 2011, also won on the Mega Fortune progressive jackpot by a player at Betsson.
The UK’s largest-ever progressive slots jackpot was won by a Scottish player at Betfred.com in February last year, scooping £5.1m on the Playtech-powered Beach Life from a bet of just £1.
Article written by Katy Stirland
