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(Thackerville, OK - June 6, 2007) - The Winstar Casinos awarded
a $132,854 Wheel of Fortune® quarters MegaJackpot®
on Wednesday, June 6th.
The winner, who asked to remain anonymous, said he was just out to relax and wasn't
really sure what drew him to the winning machine. However, the new
MegaJackpot® winner
did say he was so excited upon realizing his win, that he immediately called his
son-in-law and daughter to share his incredible news. When asked what he plans
to do with his winnings, the Winstar Casino winner replied, "[I] am still too excited
to know."
Today's MegaJackpot® award comes on the heels of a $732,621
Wheel of Fortune® MegaJackpot® paid on May 16th.
That jackpot hit on a one-dollar machine, and is the largest to be paid in Oklahoma to
date. The casino is one of dozens in Oklahoma belonging to a sixteen-state gaming network
that includes over 300 tribal casinos nationwide. The network is made up of casinos that carry
one or more IGT progressive game. Anytime a coin is played in a linked machine, anywhere in the
network, the cumulative jackpot continues to grow until it is won.
Oklahoma became part of IGT's Native American wide area progressive gaming network just
last year. Since September 2006, Oklahoma casinos have paid out over $3 million in
MegaJackpot® prize money on a variety of progressive gaming systems, including the very
popular Jeopardy!® system, the hilarious
Beverly Hillbillies™ game, and the nostalgic
I Dream of Jeannie™ progressive.
Today's MegaJackpot® at the Winstar Casinos is the 10th
to be paid in Oklahoma. The Winstar Casino is one of seventeen gaming facilities operated in
Oklahoma by the Chickasaw Nation.
The Wheel of Fortune® quarters progressive is one of the most popular systems in
Native America, and features an exciting bonus spin that has come to be one of the favorite
facets of the game for players and fans alike. Wheel of Fortune® has a
starting jackpot of $100,000. In order to win the MegaJackpot®, a
player bets three quarters at a time while attempting to line up the
Wheel of Fortune® symbols on the machine's payline.
Wheel of Fortune® was developed by IGT (www.IGT.com),
a global company specializing in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and sales
of computerized gaming machines and systems products. All IGT MegaJackpot®
top awards are paid in annual installments upon verification, except
MegaJackpots Instant Winners Jackpots™ which are paid in their entirety
upon verification.
Contact: Holly Riker - ChitChat PR Rapid City, SD (605)390-7741 Email:
hriker@chitchatpr.com
© 2007 IGT. All rights reserved. "Wheel of Fortune" is a registered trademark of
Califon Productions, Inc. "Wheel of Fortune" © 2007 Califon Productions, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. "Jeopardy!" is a registered trademark of Jeopardy
Productions, Inc. "Jeopardy!" © 2007
Jeopardy Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ###
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