First refusal of jackpot at online casinos

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No one doubts the fact, that people visit and play at internet gambling sites with the purpose to win money or, what’s much more desirable, to hit a life changing jackpot at a casino. Today there are many players who pick up only those games where the jackpots are the biggest and try to do everything to get them. However, sometimes strange things happen, which are hard to believe.

Quite recently one player of Chinese origin, Mr. C., was in the news thanks to the fact that he refused to get jackpot. Perhaps, it was the first such event during the history of gambling houses and online casinos. The events were developing at Jackpot City online casino, which belongs to Belle Rock Group brand. Mr. C. was playing one of Microgaming slot machines called WowPot. It’s a five-reel slot machine with simple, close to classic symbols. It’s most prominent feature is a progressive jackpot.

So Mr. C. managed to hit the jackpot in sum of £4,444. It’s unusual number, what is not a life changing million jackpot, but also a huge sum. The problem is that the Chinese are very superstitious about the numbers. According to their numerology number four is the word for death. It’s one of the worst numbers among all the others, which will bring no good to any person. It’s easy to guess that nothing can be worse than four 4s.

One would think that there is nothing special in it and would be extremely happy, but not Mr.C, who would be even happier if he got £888 or £88, as number 8 for the Chinese is a sacred number pronounced like the word for good fortune. So Mr.C. contacted the custom service support and explained the situation. The spokesman for Jackpot City online casino, Terry Maverick, confirmed this. He added, “We’re still talking to the player and working out the best approach to handle this, which is sensitive to the player’s beliefs and concerns, but ensures that he does not lose out on his winnings.”

Together they are trying to find the way out of such an awkward situation. It’s more likely that the sum of jackpot will be converted into another currency. By the way, it was the first such a big payout of this slot machine. Usually, it didn’t pay out much, but winnings occurred frequently.

Meanwhile, the news came from another Microgaming slot machine called Mega Moolah. Every online casino player knows about this slot, as it considered to be the one with the biggest possible payouts. This time one lucky guy has become an owner of $4.1 million! A press release from Microgaming has stated, “Microgaming confirms that the jackpot was hit on the 29th August by a lucky Spin Palace Casino player, and is the largest Microgaming powered progressive jackpot win for 2010.” His name is not yet made public, but it’s known that he is from Australia.

So you see that different people may become the owners of jackpots, life changing or not. Anyway, you also have a chance to find you name among those lucky people. All you need is luck!