One source said the player is a Las Vegas local, so they should “know how this works.” To which we tend to respond, “Oy,” or something similarly clever. Golden Nugget employees and others (who wished to remain anonymous) shared word of the painfully small $200 tip.Ĭue the asshats chiming in with, “At least he left them something!” Took a few years, but this sucker finally paid off.

The player won $1.1 million on the Crazy 4 Poker progressive. All three of the million-dollar jackpots won in 2020 were from online casino sites.It’s a too-familiar story, but a million-dollar-plus jackpot winner at Golden Nugget is rumored to have left a $200 tip. In 2020, when Atlantic City casinos were closed for more than 100 days, gamblers hit 770 jackpots for nearly $83 million. According to the NJDGE reports, 1,455 jackpots of at least $50,000 were won totaling more than $218.2 million.īetween 20, there were a total of 767 jackpots of $75,000 or more. Since the change, 2021 was, by far, the best year for gamblers. Prior to that, the jackpots listed were at least $75,000. In 2018, state gaming regulators began posting jackpots of $50,000 or more. One of those wins is from December when a Borgata online casino player hit for $2.2 million playing Bison Fury. The five $1 million or more jackpots in 2021 are the highest number of wins in the last decade.

The largest was a $5.3 million jackpot by an online casino player in August 2020 on Unibet. Since June 2012, there have been 26 jackpots of $1 million or more. The NJDGE posts regular updates with a list of jackpots paid out in Atlantic City casinos or won online.

Well, anyone can look for themselves on the state Division of Gaming Enforcement website. So, how common are jackpots of this size in New Jersey?

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