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Readers have voted, and here are the Southern California Gaming Guide Best SlotsTM 2012! e ‘Best’ includes Southern California casino players’ favorite slots in 13 categories, plus an award for favorite slot apps and one for favorite PC slot games. And players also voted in nine categories related to slot play for ‘Best’ casinos. All 24 award categories feature the best top three — rst, second and third place winners — and all three award places are very signi cant. All slot makers and casinos
who received Best Slot awards can be proud they stand out as Southern California player favorites, consistently delivering great slot and casino experiences. Congratulations to all Best Slot award winners!
your favorites are Double Double Bonus Poker®, Ultimate X PokerTM and Spin PokerTM.
® Bally Technologies’ all-time player favorite, Blazing 7s
won rst place Best Reel Slot, and Quick Hit Platinum®, a wildly popular game, won three Best Slot awards, including Best Video Slot, Luckiest Slot, and Best Progressive Slot.
WMS Gaming’s The Lord of the RingsTM and Alice® won awards for Best Slot Graphics, Best Video Slot Bonus Round, and Best Movie-Themed Slot.
And while not a slot, your write-in votes earned Multimedia Games’ TournEvent of Champions, the rst- ever statewide slot tournament, rst place in the Best Slot Themescategory.AndParadiseFishingfromAruzeGaming made a rst-time splash in the voting in three categories.
For the nine “Best” awards for slot play in Southern California casinos, see page 20.
Whether you totally agree with these picks, we hope you continue to vote for your casino and slot favorites and let your voice be heard. Make sure you check out page 21 for a list of the Southern California Gaming Guide Best Slots 2012 Drawing Prize Winners. Congratulations to all the winners of the Southern California Gaming Guide Best Slots 2012 Awards!
We all love to play slots at the casino, and this year, we decided to separate the Best Slots awards from our long- running annual Best of Southern California Gaming Reader’s ChoiceTM Awards. So the Southern California Gaming Guide Best Slots 2012 is the beginning of new annual awards, where each year we’ll ask readers to tell us their favorite and Best Slots. In April, you sent us your write-in choices via the printed ballot in the April issue of the Southern California Gaming Guide and online at TheGamingGuide.com. From those, we could determine the Best Video Slot, Best Reel Slot, Best Progressive Slot and 12 other awards, plus the Southern California casinos with the Best Casino Slot Floor, Best Casino Players Club, the Best Casino Slot Tournaments, and six other awards. An independent source tallied the results of all reader ballots and here are the Southern California Gaming Guide Best Slots 2012!
Readers voted ‘Best’ to a wide variety of slots, but one, Tarzan® Lord of the JungleTM from Aristocrat Technologies, emerged rst place favorite in ve categories, including Best Video Slot, Best Penny Slot, Best Video Slot Bonus Round, Best Slot Graphics, and Luckiest Slot. See page 4 for the latest big Tarzan jackpot winner of $306,234.
IGT’s Wheel of Fortune® was voted rst place Best Progressive Slot and Best Dollar Slot, holding rm its vaulted position as one of the Best Slots in the world. Check out the two latest Wheel of Fortune® MegaJackpot winners at Barona Resort & Casino on page 15. Within one week, two lucky Barona guests won a total of almost $1.2 million on Wheel of Fortune® slots. IGT’s new GhostbustersTM Who Ya Gonna Call slot, and The HangoverTM both received huge votes for Best Movie-Themed Slot. And IGT has a lock on the Best Video Poker Slot in Southern California. You said
Best Reel Slot
Blazing 7s®
Wheel of Fortune®
Five Times Ten Times Pay Quick HitTM
Best Video Slot
Tarzan® Lord of the JungleTM Quick Hit Platinum® Paradise FishingTM
Luckiest Slot
Tarzan® Lord of the JungleTM Quick Hit Platinum® Paradise FishingTM
Best Progressive Slot
Wheel of Fortune®
Tarzan® Lord of the JungleTM Quick Hit Platinum®
Best Dollar Slot
Wheel of Fortune® Blazing 7s®
Ten Times Pay®
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAMING GUIDE
JUNE 2012