Biggest Casino Jackpot Winners

Imagine walking into a casino a regular guy and walking out a multimillionaire! There’s one guy who did it, in 2003 – a 25-year old software engineer. He hit the jackpot on the Megabucks slot machines at Excalibur casino and took home a mind-blowing $39,710,826.36! And all on a $100 investment!

And by the way, that is a record that still stands for jackpot casino wins. The one number that beats it, and by a fair margin, is Archie Karas’ cumulative $50 million stunner at the poker tables in Vegas. This Greek immigrant shifted to Vegas with $50 in his pocket, turned it over to a massive $50 million and then lost it all in 3 weeks flat!

Imagine going over your budget and ending up with a multi-million dollar win! That is what happened to a retired flight attendant in 1998.

She stepped into the Palace Station casino on 15th November 1998 with a total budget of $100. She blew it all up and, in a bout of possible recklessness, spent another $200, i.e. $300 in all. That was one overspending decision she will never rue, though, because she ended up pocketing $27,580,879.60!

It is possible for anyone to win a progressive jackpot, because the results are truly random and there is no fixed time interval between 2 jackpot wins. The 5th biggest jackpot win of all time at a land-based casino is a reflection of this.

The incident happened on 1st June, 1999, when an anonymous 49-year old business consultant from Illinois decided to sit down at a Megabucks slot at Caesar’s Palace. His wager was a modest $10, and his wins from it were a not-so-modest and in fact staggering $21,346,952.22!

Like quite a few other winners, he too chose to keep his identity under wraps till date.

Microgaming’s Mega Moolah jackpot is called the Millionaire Maker, and with good reason – it has spawned the biggest number of multimillionaires at online casinos across the world! And one such player lucky enough to take home an 8-figure stunner is an anonymous player.

This player played the Mega Moolah jackpot slot at Lucky casino on 20th August, 2020 – a cool date in itself given that everything was 20 – and won the top prize of $16,675,230 (€14,239,532.84)!

One of the biggest wins – and this was a record that stood for a while – on an online progressive jackpot was scored by then 26-year old British soldier Jon Heywood.

On 6th October, 2015, this young man from Cheshire, UK, sat down to play Mega Moolah at Betway casino. He played with bets of 25p per spin. And there it was – bells clanging and trumpets blaring, well, almost, as he took home what was then a world record payout of $20.06 million or €17,879,645.12.

Microgaming has recently come up with a number of Mega Moolah variants – it was about time anyway – and one of them exploded into the record books as the game that gave the highest payout ever!

On 27th April, 2021, a player from Belgian signed in to the Napoleon Sports & Casino Online and decided to try his luck playing Absolootly Mad: Mega Moolah. This is a slot themed on Alice in Wonderland developed by Microgaming in collaboration with Triple Edge Studios. The result of that play was a win of €19,430,723.60 or $23,632,599.85, destroying the earlier record completely!