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Feeling lucky? The casino players in these photos certainly were when they hit a variety of big jackpots category in the Southern California and won exciting casino promotions. All of the players on these pages won jackpots playing slots, Gaming Guide Reader’s Choice 2018
poker, table games, keno, bingo and participating in luxury car casino promotions.
If you’re like most Southern California Gaming GuideTM readers, you probably look at the Big Winners! page each month (readers tell us it’s one of their favorite pages), and wish that it were you, holding an over-sized check, or standinginfrontofaslotmachinejackpot,orposingnext to a brand new luxury car. Imagine just how wonderful it would feel if you were a big jackpot winner.
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 luxury car
and cash casino promotion. And what’s big? Well, big is a relative word, especially in the world of casino wins.
We all would be thrilled to win a $1,000 jackpot at the casino. But all of the casino players on these pages won $10,000-plus jackpots or fantastic new cars. Southern California casinos have big winners all the time. Some winners choose not to share their luck with a photo. But here are some lucky casino guests who became winners in the past few months at featured Southern California casinos and wanted a photo record of their lucky day.
Slot Progressive Jackpots
It’s easy to see that many of the winners on these pages hit jackpots on Aristocrat Technologies’ Lightning Link progressive, First Place winner in the Best Progressive Slot
Best SlotsTM awards. Players at Sycuan Casino, Barona Resort & Casino, and Viejas Casino & Resort were very happy Lightning Link winners.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAMING GUIDE
FEBRUARY 2019