LAS VEGAS, Nevada (News 4 & Fox 11) — After investing just $40, a part-time Las Vegas resident hit a jackpot of nearly $15.5 million on IGT Megabucks machine at Boyd Gaming’s Suncoast Hotel & Casino on Christmas Eve.
Kevin, who splits time between Las Vegas and Alaska, wasn’t planning on spending Christmas in Las Vegas but was held over unexpectedly on business.
Making a Christmas Eve stop at the Suncoast, Kevin lined up the three Megabucks symbols at 12:30 p.m. to capture a jackpot of $15,491,103 – Nevada’s largest slot machine jackpot in eight years.
IGT’s Megabucks slots game is famous for paying the casino industry’s largest slots jackpots. In Nevada, the game’s jackpot meter re-sets at $10 million, the largest base progressive amount of any slots game in the U.S.