Not everyone goes to a casino in the hope of getting rich. The saying money can’t buy happiness unfortunately came true for Cynthia Jay-Brennan, who, after winning $34.9million in 2000, was involved in a car accident after a drink-driver hit her car, paralysing her and killing her sister. Instead, she continued to play the slots and a few months later hit the big time with a $27million win.

When a 60 year old woman won $680,000 on the Wheel of Fortune machine at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino, she decided not to go out and spend it. He subsequently donated much of it to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. After travelling the world, he continued to play the slots a few times a week and 16 years later in 2005, he hit the jackpot again, winning $21million.

In early 2001, Philadelphia Park racetrack manager, Don Johnson, won a total of $15.1million playing blackjack at three different casinos in Atlantic City during a 12-hour marathonĬaesars Palace has been the venue for many wins over the years, but in 1999 it paid out $21.3million to a 49-year-old business consultant from Illinois, who hit the jackpot after dropping $10 into a Megabucks machine.Ī mere 10 hours after the Mirage opened in 1989, 76 year old World War II Veteran, Elmer Sherwin, walked out a Megabucks jackpot winner, taking home $4.6million. He went on to write the 2001 biography, I Did It: My Life After Megabucks, which tells the story of the downsides to becoming a multimillionaire. In at number 10 is postal worker John Tippin, who in 1996, whilst on vacation in Las Vegas and staying at the Hilton Hotel and Casino, won a cool $11.9million.

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