“You like to dream big but that’s really big. “I am in absolute shock,” she said in a news release from the casino.
She placed a $5 bet before hitting the jackpot Thursday morning, shortly after midnight. The woman named Laurie, who wanted her last name withheld, had just celebrated her 60th birthday last week. The $3,854,682 score on an IGT Megabucks machine broke the record for the highest payout ever for all six Seminole Gaming properties, and it was the largest slot jackpot ever awarded in Florida on an International Game Technology game, according to the casino. – Feeling lucky? Probably not as lucky as the Fort Lauderdale woman who was playing a $1 slot machine when she hit a $3.8 million jackpot at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood early Thursday morning.
