Everybody loves it when something pays out, be it rakeback from your online poker game, or a slot machine. You love it even more when it’s a progressive. Imagine how happy you would be if your progressive slot machine jackpot was at Four Hundred Thousand US Dollars and it came in! For Tracy Shepard of Edgewood in Maryland USA, her Friday night gamble will be one that she remembers for ever as when she pulled the lever on her slot machine, her numbers hit the jackpot! The Delaware casino was the Dover Downs Hotel and Casino in Delaware and this jackpot is chalking up to be the third highest in casino history.

Tracy was playing the Wheel of Fortune Megajackpots slot machine on Friday when the momentous line came in. She says it was really peculiar when suddenly the machine started beeping and flashing at her and it didn’t quite make any sense to start with as to how much money she had won. The amount in the total jackpot of the progressive machine had reached a collosal 410,885 US Dollars. For those not in the know, a progressive jackpot is a slot machine where the total is carried forward with every spin and the total jackpot grows over time. The machines are able to be interlinked between various casinos so ensuring several machines are all playing for just the one jackpot. This means that the total pot will climb faster with more machines.

One person not at all suprised by the amount of the jackpot win was casino analyst Mr Steve Schwartz and he is convinced that it won’t be long before these sort of wins appear more and more often not only in the US, but also all around the world. “These types of jackpots are going to become more commonplace with the expansion of casinos throughout the US,” he says, “The new casinos are going to have slots that are linked and it will create more action and more jackpot hits.”

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