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Viejas Casino Player Turns $3.75 into
® O$108,827 on Wheel of Fortune Slot
ne San Diego resident has a little more spring in her step these days. Jo Ann Smith had played only $3.75 when she hit a MegaJackpot® worth $108,827 on a Wheel of Fortune® quarter slot machine at Viejas Casino on Saturday, March 8th. Mrs. Smith, 62, was visiting Viejas with her husband when he gave her
$20.“He said,‘Go play that machine,’” she recounted. Little did she know that ve spins later she would multiply her investment more than 29,000 times! Smith, who is retired, says she loves to play Wheel of Fortune® quarter slot machines. Wheel of Fortune® is her favorite TV show as well. She plans to spend her winnings on her children and her church.
“I didn’t believe I won the jackpot!” said Smith.“ ank the Lord upstairs—he’s been good to me!”
All IGT MegaJackpots® are paid in annual installments upon veri cation, except MegaJackpots Instant Winners
Jackpots®, which are paid in their entirety upon veri cation.
POhantom EFX Sponsors NASCAR Jay Robinson Racing Chevy
n March 11th Phantom EFX Inc., the . 1 publisher of PC card and casino games, and Jay Robinson Racing announced the addition of the NASCAR Nationwide Series Sharpie 300 race at the famed Bristol Motor Speedway to an overall sponsorship agreement. e partnership started with the unveiling
of the . 4 Phantom EFX Chevy in Atlanta and will also include some associate exposure on the . 4 later in the year. e NASCAR Nationwide Series Sharpie 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway will be the second race Phantom EFX has participated as a sponsor in NASCAR.
“I was excited to hear that Phantom EFX was going to back as the primary sponsor on the . 4 Chevy in Bristol,” said driver of the . 4 Phantom EFX Chevy, Robert Richardson Jr. “I look forward to going back to Bristol for my second race ever on the track in the Nationwide Series, and I hope to make a good run for my sponsor Phantom EFX.”
Phantom EFX is the . 1 publisher of card, slots and other casino games for PC and Mac. eir agship Reel Deal brand series are the best-selling PC casino and slot games in the country. Players can compete against real people all across the world in the Phantom EFX virtual casino community, with no real money ever exchanged.
TExcellent Entertainment at Southern California Casinos in April
With an active community of thousands of sports, card and casino game fans, the Phantom EFX titles o er realistic table and slots games and even a live-feed sportsbook with stats and scores fed in real time from the Las Vegas casinos.
“We have been looking to get into the sport and joining up with the JRR Team for some time now. e . 4 Phantom EFX Chevy looked sharp out on the track in Atlanta and we got some great coverage over the race weekend,” said Jim ompson, President of Phantom EFX. “Phantom EFX is proud to be a part of NASCAR, excited to be back with JRR in Bristol and happy to continue the introduction of our products to
all the loyal fans across the country. We know the race fans will really enjoy our virtual, live-feed sportsbook game and we plan to add NASCAR races so you can virtually bet on actual drivers and real time races with virtual money starting in March of 2008.”
Fans can purchase all the games for just $20 at major retailers and at www.phantomefx.com.
his year Spring brings incredible entertainment at Southern California casinos beginning in April. Check
out artists, times and ticket prices on page 27, and read on for some of the thrilling April entertainment through 27th, don’t miss Thunder from Down Under, highlights. when the exciting boys from Australia return to Viejas.
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Valley View Casino kicks o its all new outdoor concert venue situated amidst a beautifulbackdropofgranitecli sand dramatic skyline on Friday, April 11th with Creedence Clearwater Revisited.
e Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rhythm
section from the legendary group
Creedence Clearwater Revival launched
the Creedence Clearwater Revisited
project in 1995 to perform live Creedence
Clearwater Revival hits—touchstones
of a generation. Valley View’s lineup for
subsequent months includes Duran Duran on May 8th, Trace Adkins on May 15th, and Bonnie Raitt on May 17th and a host of exciting artists throughout the summer.
At Harrah’s Rincon Casino & Resort, Boz Scaggs will perform on April 18th, and The Black Crowes appear in the rst show of the summer concert season in the Open Sky Theater on Saturday, April 26th at 8 p.m. And Tony-award winner Lea Salonga, one of Broadway’s
brightest stars, will perform a single At Sycuan Casino, you can see seven talented show in the Pavilion at Harrah’s Vietnamese performers on April 18th, in the Showcase RincononSunday,April27that8p.m. Theatre. ey include singers Minh Tuyet, Lam
And don’t miss the $100,000 Rock to Win promotion at Harrah’s Rincon on April 25th–26th that celebrates the launch of the Harrah’s Summer Concert Series. e promotion is open to all Total Rewards cardholders. Drawing winners will be selected every hour from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on both days. Five winners will be chosen
at each drawing to win $500 cash and, they can choose to Rock to Win an additional $500 by playing Guitar Hero. And, at 10:30 p.m. each promotional day, one lucky winner will receive $25,000 cash! See page 28 for more details.
At Viejas Casino, you can see Bret Michaels, Poison front man and reality show star, shake it up with the Rock of Love Tour on Friday, April 4th, and on April 25th
Thuy Van, Don Ho, Dang The Luan, Bang Tam, and comedians Van Son and Bao Liem.
And Forbidden Hollywood will be presented Friday, April 25th through Sunday, April 27th, in the Showcase eatre. Hot on the heels of its wicked, long-running
predecessor, Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Hollywood, created by Gerard Alessandrini, spoofs popular lms such as Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, e Wizard of Oz, and Aladdin and their songs.
And at Soboba Casino, Def Leppard is live in concert on April 27th. e English hard rock band was one of the top-selling bands of the Eighties, and is one of only ve rock bands with albums that sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. (along with e Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Van Halen).
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