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It’s a celebration of winners at Southern California casinos, with these lucky casino guests who won slot jackpots, keno progressives, poker, blackjack bingo jackpots, and car and cash promotions. Southern California casinos are creating lots of winners so far in 2015!
award-winning penny slot, but at rst did not play the maximum bet. A few spins before the jackpot hit, she decided to risk a bit more. en she watched as the zombie symbols lined up across the screen and realized she hit the progressive million-dollar jackpot! She had only been playing the machine for 10 minutes before she scored the awesome windfall.
Guests Win Trucks and Cash in
Great Promos
Cars and cash go together in casino promotions, and some Southern California casinos stand out for their amazing award-winning promotions. Sycuan Casino, rst place winner of
the Best Promotions award in the 2014 Best Casino Reader’s Choice Awards, celebrated the Year of the Ram Lunar New Year with a 2015 Dodge Ram giveaway. Lunar New Year drawings were held every
Wednesday until February 18th, and four winners could instantly win up to $8,888 and an entry into the Grand Finale Ram Drawing. Check out Quan, who started his Lunar New Year with a va-room!
Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa’s guests are thrilled about the $150,000 Motorhome Giveaway, where Paradise Rewards Club members could win up to $10,000 in cash, $1,000 in Paradise Cash Play, and a 2015 Fleetwood Storm Motorhome. See lucky Gail who won $10,000 on February 8th, and Sara T. who won $10,000 on March 8th. And the giveaway’s Grand Finale Drawing for the Motorhome is coming soon on Sunday,
April 12th.
And Spa Resort Casino Paradise
Rewards Club guests won big cash, Paradise Cash Play, and a Dodge Ram Big Horn 1500 in the $300,000 Treasure Hunt promotion in February and March.
Most of us would be thrilled to win a $1,000 jackpot at the casino. But almost all of the players on these pages won $10,000-plus jackpots or fantastic new cars or trucks. And one amazingly fortunate player even won a slot jackpot over $1,000,000! Southern California casinos have big winners all the time. Here are some lucky casino guests who became winners in the rst three months of 2015 at Southern California casinos.
Lightning Keno Player Strikes $72,161 at Barona Resort & Casino
If Video Keno is your game, you’ll know that winning big is not unusual. And at Barona Resort & Casino, Video Keno players can nd a number of di erent games, including the wildly popular Pot o’ Gold. But we can only imagine that Tony N. from San Diego was thrilled and shocked when he won a Pot o’ Gold 25¢ jackpot of $72,161 playing Lightning Keno. Tony chose 10 picks across the top of the keno card at a $2 bet and won the jackpot when nine of his picks were chosen! Read more about Video Keno on page 14.
She Bet the Max and Won a Mini at Chumash Casino Resort
When a new Mini Cooper appeared, perched on top a bank of slot machines at Chumash Casino Resort, many guests had the same question:“How did they get a car in here?” How the cars arrive may remain a mystery to some, but it’s obvious how they leave the building: by lucky guests hitting the jackpot. Since the special Mini Cooper slot bank rst graced the gaming oor, two lucky jackpot winners drove away in new cars within a three-week span. And recently, Maria was a thrilled winner when she made the max bet of $1.50 on a one-cent Power Strike slot and won a Mini Cooper on February 27th.
It Pays to Play Dead: The Walking Dead Slot GameTM $1,053,788 Winner A guest at Pechanga Resort & Casino scared up a million-dollar jackpot on The Walking Dead Slot GameTM on February 24th. Rocio H. from Chino Hills won $1,053,788.64 just before 2 p.m. while visiting the casino with her parents. A fan of the TV show, Rocio chose to play the
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