Jackpot: Two Players Win $1M on Dragon Link Slot at Wynn — On Same Weekend

Posted on: September 6, 2024, 07:18h. 

Last updated on: September 6, 2024, 09:13h.

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Two lucky visitors recently tried their luck on a Dragon Link slot machine at the Wynn Las Vegas some 18 hours apart. Both went home more than $1M richer.

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Wynn Las Vegas, pictured above. Two players won more than $1M each on the same brand of game at the casino within 18 hours of each other. (Image: Booking.com)

The initial winner played a Dragon Link machine at about 6 p.m. on August 24. That person collected $1,191,881 at the Wynn. Some 18 hours later, another person sat down at another Dragon Link slot at the Wynn on August 25. That player collected $1,005,405.

Both players chose not to release their names. The casino did say that both are regular visitors at the Wynn.

Neither winner revealed how they will spend their newly found fortunes.

This is the second time Wynn Las Vegas has paid out two jackpots totaling more than one million dollars within a 24-hour period, the first time occurring in 2023,” according to a Wynn statement quoted by the Sacramento Bee.

Dragon Link slots are made by Aristocrat Gaming.

Michigan Casino Player Hits $630K

A visitor from Michigan won more than $630K on a slot machine at Michigan’s Island Resort & Casino on Thursday.

Deanna Juday of Wautoma, Wis. collected $630,084.36 on an International Game Technology’s Whitney Houston Slots game after making a $3 bet.

Juday claimed she had a hunch she was going to win a jackpot this week, according to a company statement. Some of the money will go to helping others, she added.

With this win, Island Resort & Casino is the first US casino to pay out a top-level, wide-area progressive jackpot on IGT’s Whitney Houston Slots.

Whitney Houston Slots are located in 38 US properties, which share the wide-area progressive.

Rampart Casino Player Wins $454K

A local player visited the Rampart Casino in Las Vegas on August 28 and left with a $454K jackpot won on a Monopoly Cash Wheel wide-area progressive machine.

The unnamed visitor was playing the machine for about 10 minutes when she won.

There’s no word on how the money will be spent.

Grand Lodge Casino Player Wins $1.1M

A mystery guest from San Francisco recently won $1,137,093.42 at Nevada’s Grand Lodge Casino at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe.

The lucky player went to the casino on August 22 and bet $10 on the Five Times Pay version of the Wheel of Fortune Gold Spin Deluxe.

The gaming property is located in Incline Village, near Lake Tahoe.

Casino Winner Collects $255K

A California woman named Ginger T. hit a $255,422 jackpot at a Mesquite, Nev. gaming property last month.

She was playing a Wheel of Fortune slot machine on August 19 at the Casablanca Resort, Casino, Golf & Spa and hit a gold spin jackpot.

Justin Moore, CEO of Mesquite Gaming, recalled in a statement that “everyone in the casino could feel her excitement when she realized how much she’d won.”