{"id":35698,"date":"2026-04-30T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/?p=35698"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:26:01","slug":"jackpots-worth-six-figures-hit-at-casinos-across-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/jackpots-worth-six-figures-hit-at-casinos-across-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackpots Worth Six-Figures Hit at Casinos Across Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been another good month for gamblers in America as several nice jackpots were hit. It’s always fun turning a $5 bet into five-figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William Wenger celebrates a $340,00 slots win. (Image: Hard Rock Casino Tejon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That’s exactly what happened to a player at MGM Springfield in Massachusetts on March 21. An unnamed player bet $5 on the slot machine game \u201cPhoenix Link” and won the jackpot prize of $17,084.09. Yowzers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the same day at the same casino, another player turned $1.50 bet into $11,004.18 playing a slot machine called \u201cDragon Link.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Masslive.com<\/a>, the Springfield casino distributed more than $100 million in\u00a0jackpots in 2025, with July recording the highest monthly total when the casino paid out more than $12.9 million in jackpots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The largest slot machine jackpot won at MGM Springfield happened that month when a player turned a $250 bet into $136,000 playing \u201cAll Star Poker 2.\u2033 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of poker, a player won $100,000 playing video poker at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City after betting $125 on a Double Double Bonus Poker Game King machine. He hit a royal flush in hearts for the big payday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile in Bakersfield, Calif., a man won a $340,000 jackpot at Hard Rock Casino Tejon\u00a0on April 25. Local William Wenger was the lucky winner. He was playing a Light & Wonder Blazing 7\u2019s Nudging Stacks slot machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be happier for William, and we look forward to many more winning celebrations ahead,\u201d Hard Rock Casino Tejon property president Chris Kelley said in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s been another good month for gamblers in America as several nice jackpots were hit. It’s always fun turning a $5 bet into five-figures. That’s exactly what happened to a player at MGM Springfield in Massachusetts on March 21. An unnamed player bet $5 on the slot machine game \u201cPhoenix Link” and won the jackpot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":35699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,503,529,7421],"tags":[775],"vertical":[],"class_list":["post-35698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-casino","category-buzz","category-poker-buzz","tag-jackpots"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":35698},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f15c56fd-c37f-4625-92a9-c5781f82ce51-340kwinnerwilliamw.jpg-600x400.webp","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f15c56fd-c37f-4625-92a9-c5781f82ce51-340kwinnerwilliamw.jpg-600x555.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"Bob Pajich","author_link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/author\/bob-pajich\/"},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35698"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=35698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}