{"id":3789,"date":"2017-08-14T21:46:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2017-08-23T21:57:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T01:57:29","slug":"california-man-wins-11-8-million-megabucks-jackpot-3-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/california-man-wins-11-8-million-megabucks-jackpot-3-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"California Man Wins $11.8 Million Megabucks Jackpot on $3 Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/megabucks-winner-vegas-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/megabucks-winner-vegas-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/megabucks-winner-vegas.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A California man named Rodolfo T. has won a Megabucks jackpot worth $11.8 million. And what&#8217;s interesting is that Rodolfo&#8217;s win came on a $3 bet.<\/p>\n<p>He was playing the Megabucks slot machine at Vegas&#8217; Fremont Hotel and Casino when his win occurred. He made the maximum $3 wager to ensure that he qualified for the jackpot on IGT&#8217;s Megabucks Double 3X4X5X Pay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fremont Casino Excited about the Win<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3792\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fremont-casino-megabucks-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fremont-casino-megabucks-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fremont-casino-megabucks.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Rodolfo T. didn&#8217;t offer any statements after winning the massive jackpot. But Fremont Hotel and Casino manager Jim Sullivan spoke with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4788006\/California-man-scoops-11-8M-jackpot-3-slots-wager.html\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail<\/a> about his win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fremont has awarded many thousands of jackpots throughout its 60-year history in Las Vegas. But none quite like this,&#8221; said Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re incredibly excited to be a part of this amazing jackpot. This furthers Fremont&#8217;s longstanding reputation as a place where players win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rodolfo&#8217;s Jackpot is a Far Cry from the Megabucks Record<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>$11.8 million is a lot of money. But it&#8217;s still quite a ways off the all-time Megabucks record.<\/p>\n<p>The largest Megabucks win ever is worth $39.7 million. An anonymous software engineer from LA hit this massive prize in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>This is also the biggest slots win in the history of online and land-based casinos. Their win eclipsed the previous Megabucks jackpot record, which was a $35 million win by Cynthia Jay-Brennan in January 2000.<\/p>\n<p>This was quite a story because Jay-Brennan was previously a Las Vegas cocktail waitress.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Jay-Brennan and her sister were hit by a drunk driver in Vegas just weeks later. She would be left paralyzed for life while her sister would pass away.<\/p>\n<p>This started a rumor that Megabucks winners are cursed, which involved everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/luck\/megabucks.asp\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">gang murders to suicides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But none of these other Megabucks tragedies have been proven. Moreover, it&#8217;s believed that any Megabucks curse stories beyond Jay-Brennan&#8217;s are merely urban legends.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5legduANlo0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California man named Rodolfo T. has won a Megabucks jackpot worth $11.8 million. And what&#8217;s interesting is that Rodolfo&#8217;s win came on a $3 bet. He was playing the Megabucks slot machine at Vegas&#8217; Fremont Hotel and Casino when his win occurred. He made the maximum $3 wager to ensure that he qualified for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789"}],"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=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}