{"id":3069,"date":"2016-11-25T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T19:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2016-11-27T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T20:12:26","slug":"woman-wins-1m-slots-jackpot-husband-thought-she-had-been-robbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/woman-wins-1m-slots-jackpot-husband-thought-she-had-been-robbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Wins $1m Slots Jackpot – Husband Thought She’d Been Robbed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wheel-of-fortune-slots-winner\"IGT’s Wheel of Fortune slot machine has created many millionaires over the years. And Linda H. Thornwood has become the latest, winning nearly $1 million through a Wheel of Fortune jackpot at New York’s Empire Casino.<\/p>\n

She and her husband, Eddie, stopped at Empire City Casino on a whim because Eddie felt like gambling.<\/p>\n

As ABC affiliate WABC New York<\/a> reports, Linda began playing one of the 110 Wheel of Fortune slot machines at the casino. Not long afterward, she hit a life-changing slots jackpot.<\/p>\n

“I heard all the people around me cheering as well, so it was just like a blur,” said Linda. “It was such a shock.”<\/p>\n

Linda Thornwood’s jackpot is the second-biggest win in Empire City’s short history. The biggest is a $1.5 million payout, also through Wheel of Fortune.<\/p>\n

One twist to the story is that Eddie Thornwood thought that his wife had been robbed after seeing her surrounded by Empire City security.<\/p>\n

\"wheel-of-fortune-slots\"“She was shaking and she had security around her and I said, ‘What happened, were you robbed?’ and she says, ‘No, I won $1 million,’ and I said, ‘What?'” Eddie explained. “She says, ‘I won $1 million,’ and I said, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe it.'”<\/p>\n

Now that Linda is nearly a millionaire, she plans on using the money to help her adult children pay off debts and expenses.<\/p>\n

Set to retire in three years, Linda has no plans to quit her job, despite the win.<\/p>\n

There was no mention in the ABC piece about what her job is or how much she’ll continue to play slots in the future.<\/p>\n

In any case, it’s pretty amazing that Linda won big on an impromptu casino trip. And fortunately for Eddie, his wife had not been robbed, but rather made a lot of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IGT’s Wheel of Fortune slot machine has created many millionaires over the years. And Linda H. Thornwood has become the latest, winning nearly $1 million through a Wheel of Fortune jackpot at New York’s Empire Casino. She and her husband, Eddie, stopped at Empire City Casino on a whim because Eddie felt like gambling. As …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,4,82],"tags":[795,796,794,453,797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069"}],"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=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}