Winnings at Cookie Casino and other big casinos can be not only large and unexpected, but also very interesting. As statistics show, most of them are in the U.S., probably because that is where Las Vegas is located and over 50% of the population regularly participates in the lottery and occasionally snatches a big score.
How One Waitress Went to a Casino
A girl named Cynthia Jay was working as a waitress in Las Vegas. The beginning of the year 2000 was a turning point for her the day she decided to visit a casino after her work shift. Naturally, she wasn’t going to gamble big, she only had $27. She was losing them one by one when, before she left, she heard the familiar loud sound that informed everyone around her that she had won the jackpot. The jackpot was $34.9 million. It would have taken her more than 1,000 years to earn that kind of money as a waitress.
A Birthday Present
Johanna Hoyndl decided to celebrate her own 74th birthday at a casino in Las Vegas. She managed to win $22.5 million on her first try at one of the hotel’s randomly selected slot machines.
A Couple of Coins at Random out of Boredom
A programmer from Los Angeles, whose name is unknown, decided to pass the time before a basketball game by throwing some coins into a slot machine. The jackpot he managed to collect that night was about $40 million.
Lucky Hot Dog
This winnings came from the lottery. Despite the fact that the sums in this case are larger than in slot machines, they are usually divided among several winners at the same time. In May 2000, $363 million was divided fairly between two winners. One of them had to buy a lottery ticket just to exchange the money for a hot dog.
Fatal Accident
American Andrew Jackson Whittaker, who managed to win $314 million, became the record-breaker in terms of the amount because he didn’t have to share his winnings with anyone. Contrary to U.S. law, under which such a winnings should receive it in installments, he wanted to take it all at once and as a result overpaid tax, so that he got his hands only 114 million dollars. He donated part of his winnings to charity, and some part was simply stolen from him. But fate was no longer so favorable to him, and one after another he lost close people. All ended up in the fact that the millionaire is now completely alone, and he blames only that fatal ticket.
The Biggest Poker Jackpot
At one of the poker tournaments, Swede Martin Deckniff won more than $2.5 million. To do this, he had to play several dozen games. With this money he was able to buy his dream house in Las Vegas.
Sofa Millionaire
Internet casinos are a phenomenon that became widespread not so long ago. However, there are already record-breakers in this field as well. The biggest win was 17.8 million euros – that’s what the jackpot broke on one of the slots 40 Finn from Helsinki. According to him, he played just out of habit, and bet only 25 cents each.
Winner Incognito
The last case happened not so long ago, $25 million was won by a lucky man from Canada. But to this day nothing is known about him, because he simply did not show up for his winnings, the probability of which, according to the lottery organizers, is only 1 in 28 million.
