{"id":2518,"date":"2016-05-30T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2016-05-30T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T21:26:06","slug":"bus-driver-wins-slots-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/bus-driver-wins-slots-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Driver wins $1.3 Million Slots Jackpot &#8211; Deciding on Lincoln vs Cadillac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paul-smith-slots-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"paul-smith-slots\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paul-smith-slots-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paul-smith-slots-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paul-smith-slots-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paul-smith-slots.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A Canadian bus driver is now $1.3 million richer after winning a slots jackpot at the Northern Lights Casino in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p>The driver in question, Paul Smith, was playing the Smoke Signals slot machine when he earned the life-changing sum of money. Now he looks forward to paying off his mortgage and all other debts that he owes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh man what a win, I didn&#8217;t know what I was going to do for retirement. Now I can pay off my mortgage and a few other debts,&#8221; said Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The one other decision that Smith faces isn&#8217;t so tough: whether he&#8217;s going to spoil himself with a Lincoln or a Cadillac SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is the latest Canadian to win a major slots jackpot within the last few months. In March, Sylvia Bennett won a $1 million prize after choosing a staycation in Alberta over a trip to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/northern-lights-casino-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"northern-lights-casino\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/northern-lights-casino-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/northern-lights-casino-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/northern-lights-casino.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The sawmill worker&#8217;s husband and friends wanted to go to Vegas, but they decided differently after looking at the exchange rate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the Canadian dollar is so low, we decided we\u2019d do a Canadian version of Vegas, and we went to Edmonton for the weekend,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Just last month, somebody hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/mega-moolah-slots-jackpot-hit-2016\/\">Mega Moolah online slots jackpot<\/a> for \u20ac6.9 million. This is just one of the many multi-million-dollar online slots jackpots that have been won in the last few years. Mega Moolah is especially noteworthy because it&#8217;s paid out $574 million since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>One other notable recent jackpot story that we have involves a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/scottish-teacher-wins-online-slots-jackpot\/\">Scottish teacher winning $3.5 million in slots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After winning, the single mom, who remained anonymous, wasn&#8217;t thinking about luxury cars or a new house. Instead, she was thinking about getting a dishwasher.<\/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,\u201d she said. \u201cI might get a kitchen extension so I can fit the dishwasher.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian bus driver is now $1.3 million richer after winning a slots jackpot at the Northern Lights Casino in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The driver in question, Paul Smith, was playing the Smoke Signals slot machine when he earned the life-changing sum of money. Now he looks forward to paying off his mortgage and all other &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11,4,1,82],"tags":[618,617,616,143,619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"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=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}