January

Stewardess Wins $9,396,271 on Megabucks
Date Posted : January 12th, 2001
Find out how US Airways flight attendant Cynthia Malinoski turned her 5 hour lay-over in Las Vegas into a $9,000,000 plus progressive win on the $1 version of IGT's Megabucks slot machine ...

Player wins $408,068.98 on the Betty Boop Progressive in AC
Date Posted : January 25th, 2001
Gerry Hammill of Verona, Pa scooped a $400,000+ jackpot on the quarter denomination Roaring 20's version of the Betty Boop Big Hit Series. It looks like Gerry's trip to Caesars was a roaring success ...

Total Progressive Paid Out By Microgaming Exceed $20,000,000
Date Posted : January 25th, 2001
Find out how the five progressive slots including Cash Splash, that are found at Microgaming powered casinos have paid out a total of over $20,000,000 since they were launched just two years ago ...

Betty Boop Hits Again - That's Twice in Just 24 Hours!
Date Posted : January 26th, 2001
The Betty Boop progressive seem to be really hot at the moment with Gloria Avila winning $418,822.25 on her first spin at Viejas Casino. This comes less than a day after Gerry's win in Atlantic City ...

February

Texas Couple Win $3,000,000+ on Wheel of Fortune
Date Posted : February 18th, 2001
When Texans MJ and Mamie Morgan decided to spend the weekend in Vegas we can't image they had any idea that they would leave the Excalibur casino multi-millionaires. A max bet spin of Wheel of Fortune did the trick ...

March

Cash Splash Winner Makes it Three Times Lucky
Date Posted : March 19th, 2001
The Cash Splash slot from Microgaming is by far the most popular progressive online. Find out how Blake R. manage to win the top prize not once but THREE times. Even better is the fact that all of his jackpots were $80,000+ ...

Two Huge Progressive Hits in Vegas in Just One Hour
Date Posted : March 22nd, 2001
It seems that the 15th was an excellent day for players in Las Vegas with an $8,000,000 Megabucks win and a $360,000 Jeopardy progressive hitting within an hour of each other ...

The Microgaming Progressives Keep On Breaking Records
Date Posted : March 26th, 2001
Just two months on from breaking the $20 million mark the Microgaming progressive slots have paid out another $5,000,000 to players. If you are a progressive fan then the games are a must play online ...

April

Cash Splash Pays Out Over $21,000,000 in Three Years
Date Posted : April 4th, 2001
The three reel, single line Cash Splash progressive by Microgaming reached $21 million worth of jackpots paid out today with a $32,188.20 jackpot won by Elizabeth C. at All Slots Casino. Congratulations Elizabeth ...

Betty Boop "Roaring 20's" Jackpot Hit Twice This Month
Date Posted : April 12th, 2001
Having hit 51 times since their launch the Betty Boop progressives from Bally gaming have now paid out a total of $13,632,588. This includes two big winners just this month alone ...

Microgaming Jackpots Now Available in Flash Casinos
Date Posted : April 15th, 2001
Up until now you have had to download software to get in on the jackpot action. Today this has changed with Cash Splash, Fruit Fiesta, Wowpot and Lotsaloot being added to the no download versions of Microgaming casinos ...

Wheel of Fortune Hits For $5.1 Million at Paris
Date Posted : April 21st, 2001
Find out how with $100 and 20 minutes of play Jim Fowler of Cypress CA won a big $5,100,000 jackpots by lining up three Wheel of Fortune logos with the required $3 maximum bet in play ...

Four Online Jackpots : Debbie R wins $169,588.75
Date Posted : April 29th, 2001
Clearly some players have some serious luck. Take for example the story of Debbie R. who hit three Cash Splash jackpots including a $67,994.27 and $60,807.26 win plus a $40,757.22 jackpot on Lotsaloot. Way to go Debbie ...

May

Cryptologic Launches Linked Progressive Jackpots
Date Posted : May 3rd, 2001
Great news for online progressive fans, Cryptologic have now linked all of the jackpots at all of their casinos. This means that you will be seeing bigger prizes on games such as Triple Olives and the new Rags To Riches ...

Faster Downloads for Microgaming Casinos
Date Posted : May 9th, 2001
If you are using a dial up Internet connection then the days of waiting for hours for a casino to download are over. Today Microgaming released a new version of their online casino software that cuts the download time by 80% ...

Betty Boop Progressive Hits Again for$394,458.82
Date Posted : May 16th, 2001
Today, Cathy Spallino became the 52nd player to score the top prize of the Betty Boop series of games from world famous slot maker Bally Gaming. Cathy was playing the nickel "Born to Boop" version when luck struck ...

The Jackpots Keep Growing at Microgaming Casinos
Date Posted : May 23rd, 2001
A $53,776.43 on the Lotsaloot progressive slots today pushed the total of progressive wins at Microgaming casinos to over $30,000,000. Clearly if you are looking for a big jackpots online Microgaming is the way to go ...

June

Debbie R. Continues Her Winning Streak with Two More Jackpots
Date Posted : June 23rd, 2001
Back in April we posted the story of Debbie R. who had won three progressive jackpots online. Today it was announced that she has won two more! Her five progressive wins now total a huge $279,263 ...

Wheel of Fortune Hits at the Flamingo Las Vegas
Date Posted : June 23rd, 2001
In Vegas for less that 24 hours, US Air Force pilot Major William Tracy turned his vacation into a trip to remember with a life changing jackpot of $3,000,000 on the Wheel of Fortune dollar machine from IGT ...

More Players Join Debbie R. as Multiple Jackpot Winners
Date Posted : June 21st, 2001
Find out how five more online slots players, Marilyn, Chrisoula, Linda, Jean and Blake have beaten the odds and won more than one progressive jackpot. Combined they have won over $800,000 worth of cash ...

July

First Jackpot Winner on Treasure Nile
Date Posted : July 18th, 2001
The Treasure Nile progressive was launched just a week ago with a starting jackpot of $40,000. Today the first jackpot was hit for $105,248.06 by Suzanne G. The game is sure to become one of the nets most popular slots ...

August

New World Record for the Highest Wheel of Fortune Jackpot
Date Posted : August 2nd, 2001
When Kathleen Budz and her husband Don made their yearly vacation to Las Vegas they had a feeling that they were going to get luck. Kathleen's dream came true with a $4,000,000 jackpot on the $5 Wheel of Fortune ...

New World Record For an Online Progressive
Date Posted : August 4th, 2001
Just two days after seeing a new land based jackpot record we have a new online record. Just three weeks after being launched, the five reel, nine line Treasure Nile has paid out a big $389,843.85 ...

Wheel of Fortune Pays $3,000,000 Birthday Present
Date Posted : August 12th, 2001
As part of her 60th birthday celebrations Jill Steuber and her husband, Gerald decided to visit Harrah's in Laughlin. Having never played dollar machines before Jill decided to try $20 in the Wheel of Fortune ...

September

Online Jackpot Record Broken Again with a $414,000 Win
Date Posted : September 6th, 2001
Just over a month since the online progressive record was broken on Treasure Nile a new slot raises the bar again. Rags To Riches, the biggest progressive at Cryptologic casinos has paid out a instant win of over $400,000 ...

Rags To Riches Hits Again
Date Posted : September 13th, 2001
Just three days after breaking online jackpot records, Rags To Riches has hit again for $111,820.80. This goes to show that the myth that once a game has hit it will not hit again soon is totally false ...

First Jackpot on Millionaire 777's Won
Date Posted : September 18th, 2001
Launched on May the 1st the Millionaire 777's progressive from Bally Gaming has finally paid out it's first Major Jackpot. Linda Peterson of Jackson GA invested just $100 for her $1,374,539.74 win ...

October

More Players Join the Multiple Winners Club
Date Posted : October 9th, 2001
It seems that winning more than one progressive has become the trend for many online slots players. Today it was announced that in total the players in the multiple winner club have walked away with over $1,000,000 ...

November

Rags To Riches Hits For $226,970.92 at The Sands
Date Posted : November 9th, 2001
A player with the username "Buster" has spun up a $226,970.92 on the Rags To Riches progressive at the Sands of the Caribbean online casino. This comes just two months after the world record breaking win on the game ...

Second Sands Players Strikes It Rich
Date Posted : November 21st, 2001
Hot on the heels of Busters win, Lexi a player at the Sands managed to get the jackpot symbol to line up on Rags to Riches for a $121,074.04. The game is fast becoming one of the most popular online slots ...

Wheel of Fortune Quarters Pays Out $2,500,000
Date Posted : November 26th, 2001
While playing Wheel of Fortune at Harrah's in Las Vegas, Bryan Sundblom turned a 75 bet into a $2,500,000 jackpot. This is one of the biggest wins for the quarter denomination version of IGT's popular game ...

December

A Look Back at the Biggest Jackpot Winners of 2001
Date Posted : December 20th, 2001
It's been an amazing year for online jackpots winners . We have seen the online records broken multiple times and even players who have hit the same jackpot more than once ...