The largest jackpot in Slot machine history was won this weekend by a 25 year old software designer from Las Angeles, while he was in Las Vegas to watch his favorite College basketball team play a game.
The man decided to go into the casino to have a little fun and decided on playing the Dollar progressive slot machines in the Excalibur hotel and casino. He placed three one dollar coins in the machine and changed his life forever.
On his first spin of the reels he set a new world record with a jackpot of $38,000,000. A new world record was set for the most money won on a slot machine when a man won 38 million dollars.
The man%u2019s name has not been release by his request.
A progressive machine is networked with other slot machines in other casinos in this case the winning machine was liked to 157 other casinos and thousands of individual slot machines in Nevada.
The last time the record was broke was in 2000 when someone won 34 million dollars, and this jackpot has been building since 2002 when it was hit for 22 million dollars.
The winner has received a call congratulating him form the machines manufacturers and is still deciding if he wants the money to be paid in a lump sum of receive yearly payments for the next 25 years. To make the weekend even better his basketball team won the game.
