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Valley View Casino Awards Over $90,000 In Colossal Coin Jackpot Winnings
The second to last week of May was a colossal hit for three Valley View Casino Players Club members — a colossal jackpot hit, that is.
Carlon Fagan of Irvine, Sean Wallace of Orange County and Erin Kuo of Irvine became the second, third and fourth winners of the Colossal Coin jackpot just for using their Players Club cards. Mr. Wallace won $11,095.41, Carlon Fagan won $59,930.26 and Ms Kuo won $22,327.65. (Look for Ms Fagan and Ms Kuo on our Winners page this month!)
“I was very happy,” said Kuo. When asked what she plans to do with the money:“I gave about $10,000 to family members and now I’m going to save some and spend some on myself.” Kuo was playing a Pharaoh’s FortuneTM penny slot machine when she hit the jackpot.
In addition to many individual and progressive jackpots, Valley View Casino now offers a
Colossal Coin jackpot that guaranteed to hit between $10,000 and $100,000. Any guest actively using a Valley
View Casino Players Club card in any of the casino’s 1,250 slot and video poker
machines is eligible to win. As guests play, the progressive
jackpot increases until a computer-generated, randomly selected “coin” sets off the jackpot. The lucky patron with the
“Colossal Coin” wins the entire jackpot.
is
for our guests to win big here at Valley View. People are excited because they know at any time they could be the next big winner. And it doesn’t matter
if they’re playing pennies, nickels,
quarters or dollars—as long as they use their card, they have a chance to win big. Congratulations, to all of our
recent winners.”
All Players Club members
using their cards when the
jackpot hits automatically win $25 in moreplayTM (free slot
play) on their Players Club cards. So far, over $40,000 in moreplayTM has been given out since the
Colossal Coin promotion began on April 26, 2005. Membership in the Valley View Casino Players Club is free to adults 21 and older.
“We are ecstatic to be the only casino in the country to o er Colossal Coin,” said Valley View Casino General Manager Bruce Howard. “It’s another opportunity
Soboba Casino Player Wins $119,692 Elvis® Quarter MegaJackpot®
When Immanuel Abair, Jr. headed out to Soboba Casino with his wife on June 17th, he had no idea he would come home a big winner. A fan of the popular Elvis® twenty- ve cent slot
machines, Abair tried his luck at an Elvis machine, and his visit paid o ! e Elvis machine he was playing shook, rattled and rolled out a $119,692 MegaJackpot award! A resident of Moreno Valley, Mr. Abair plans
to invest his winnings. His jackpot was the third Elvis quarter MegaJackpot® award won at an Inland Empire casino in the last two months. Look for Mr. Abair pictured with his check on page 26!
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