The First Major Millionaire for 2005

It looks likes 2005 is going to be a great year for online slot players. In January over $3,000,000 was won on the Microgaming progressives and even more was won on their non progressive slots. We were not expecting to see a million dollar jackpot winner this month as the highest jackpot available was sitting around the $700,000 mark.

Today, to our surprise it was announced that the first millionaire of 2005 had been made. How had $700,000 turned into a million dollar jackpot overnight? British Pounds. The latest player to win the Major Millions jackpot won it while playing in UK Pounds Sterling.

Edward R from the UK hit the jackpot for £743,760.57 which when converted to US Dollars come in at just over $1,400,000. He won the tidy sum while playing the new five reel version of the popular slot.

Edward becomes only the fourth player to hit an online jackpot of over $1,000,000. As with all winners he will be shortly receiving his prize as one payment, that's right he gets a single check for the entire jackpot amount.

His win also coincided with another milestone for the Microgaming jackpot network which has now paid out a total of over $125,000,000.00 in progressive jackpots since 1998. Last year the average was $3,000,000 worth of winners every month but as the network becomes even more popular it will be no time before $5,000,000 is won per month on a regular basis.