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dollars. e values always include playing with a players club card, for that’s the way you get to play longer, take advantage of free play, free slot tournaments, free credit multipliers, and even receive free gifts and cash.
My bottom line at the casino: I want to win! Don’t we all? I’m a casino player and I know that while I don’t always expect to win, I sure hope I will. We all love seeing people who have won. I love seeing someone win a huge jackpot in the casino, and the next best thing is reading and seeing their photos here in the Southern California Gaming GuideTM.
Every month, the publisher receives many reader e-mails, phone calls and letters (yes, you write letters!) telling her how much you want to see all kinds of winners: jackpots, big and small, on slots, at the tables, and winners of big casino promotions. So here you are: lots of winners. And this is only a small fraction of winners at Southern California casinos.
ese lucky—and happy—casino players won big in the past three months. And, yes, I know you want as many details as possible. So I’ve included a few of the back stories of some of these very lucky players. As you read on, I bet you will visualize yourself a big casino winner whose photo could be on these pages — or on one of the most-read pages of this paper, the Winners page. Like many
Southern California Gaming Guide readers, you probably look at page 34 every month, the Winners page, and hope you’ll be holding an over-sized check or smiling in front of a slot machine, or an awesome luxury car, imagining just how wonderful you will feel when you become a big casino winner.
Southern California casinos have big winners all the time. Some players love to let people know they’ve won, while others keep their good news to themselves. So, factor in the number of players who won and were camera shy. e number of recent winners so far has been incredible. Winning a big jackpot is every casino players’ dream.
Most casino players dream of winning the "Big One" (or something close to it): the casino jackpot that will change their life, or certainly make life a lot more fun with many more choices. Being a jackpot winner can happen anywhere, anytime at the casino, on a standalone slot, a thrilling wide-area progressive, a casino-wide progressive for players using their players club cards, at a slot or poker tournament or at bingo or during an exciting casino promotion. And what’s big?
Well, big is a relative word, especially in the
by Gail Anders
This month we celebrate winning at the casino, and Southern California casino winners and all their wonderful wins! And there are lots of big winners. Just take a look at all the lucky winners from the past few months on these pages. ey
include slot jackpot winners, and casino promotion car, cash, and fantastic trip winners. Southern California casinos are creating a whole lot of winners these days.
is is a fantastic time to go to the casino and take advantage of all the amazing promotions and fabulous extraordinary casino values. In fact, make sure you check the Extraordinary Casino Values page each month (page 27 in this issue) so you don’t miss incredible ways to extend your casino entertainment
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