{"id":2130,"date":"2016-02-19T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T15:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2016-02-19T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T15:53:51","slug":"scottish-teacher-wins-online-slots-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/scottish-teacher-wins-online-slots-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Teacher wins $3.5m Online Slots Jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/happy-slots-player.jpg\" alt=\"happy-slots-player\" width=\"238\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1196\" \/>A teacher from the Western Isles of Scotland has become the latest big online slots winner after hitting a $3.56 million (\u00a32.5m) jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>The single mom really warmed up her Valentine&#8217;s Day after hitting the giant prize on a $3.50 bet. The winner will remain anonymous, but she did speak a little to the press following her big payout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is all still so surreal,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You obviously play these games, hoping to win a couple of quid (dollars), not a couple of million. I\u2019m still stunned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than immediately thinking of new cars and a bigger house, the anonymous winner says that she wants a dishwasher and kitchen extension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was washing the dishes this morning and thought to myself&#8230;no matter how much money you have, you still have to wash the dishes,&#8221; she said. \u201cI might get a kitchen extension so I can fit the dishwasher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/western-isles-scotland-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"western-isles-scotland\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/western-isles-scotland-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/western-isles-scotland-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/western-isles-scotland-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/western-isles-scotland.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The teacher is currently on half-term break from teaching and will use this time to decide what else she wants to do with the money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad I have the half-term off to get my head around it,&#8221; she said. \u201cI\u2019m going to be sensible and take my time deciding what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The one splurge that the mother does have on her list is a trip to Disneyland for her and her seven-year-old son. But beyond this, it doesn&#8217;t sound like she&#8217;s going to be blowing the rest of her winnings any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually the first big online slots win of 2016. In case you&#8217;re wondering, the all-time record for an online slots jackpot is \u20ac17,879,645, which was won just over four months ago by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/player-wins-biggest-online-slots-jackpot\/\">British soldier named Jon Heywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher from the Western Isles of Scotland has become the latest big online slots winner after hitting a $3.56 million (\u00a32.5m) jackpot. The single mom really warmed up her Valentine&#8217;s Day after hitting the giant prize on a $3.50 bet. The winner will remain anonymous, but she did speak a little to the press &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11,4,12],"tags":[516,421,361,514,513,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}