UK WINNER NETS MEGA MOOLAH JACKPOT
Published: October 10, 2015
UK player Jonathon Heywood won the largest ever progressive jackpot paid out online, beating the previous World Record that was set in January 2013 when a 40-year-old player from Finland won €17,861,800 from a NetEnt slot called Mega Fortune. The latest winner, Lance Corporal Heywood (an Afghanistan veteran soldier), netted €17,879,645.12 while playing on Microgaming’s Mega Moolah slot machine over at Betway Casino.
The Microgaming CEO, Roger Raatgever, said, “We have the longest-standing progressive jackpot network, having launched the first internet progressive jackpot in 1998, as well as the biggest, having paid out over half a billion euros to date.” The jackpot had been climbing for more than 125 days before it was finally won by the UK player.
“Our progressive jackpot network has set many records since its inception, but I’m absolutely overjoyed to say that our software has generated the world’s largest ever online jackpot win. Many congratulations to Jonathon on this life-changing and historic win,” added the CEO. Jon Heywood was actually playing in Pound Sterling (GBP) when he won and the official amount in his local currency came to £13,213,838.68.
“It’s all so surreal, and I can’t come to terms with it just yet, I just kept staring at my screen and seeing this huge number in my Betway account,” said the winner. Betway Casino’s spokesperson, Alan Alger, also commented on this historic win. He said, “We are delighted for Jonathon and having met him the day after his win we can honestly say that it couldn’t happen to a nicer young man. We hope he really enjoys the World Record win”.
As soon as this jackpot was won, it instantly reset to its original seed amount of $/€/£1,000,000.00 and you can now play for this life-changing jackpot at all of our featured Microgaming casinos. You can compete against millions of other players to win this jackpot on the Mega Moolah slot, but also on several other Microgaming slots including The Dark Knight, Mega Moolah Summertime, Mega Moolah 5 Reel Drive and Mega Moolah Isis.
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