Kiowa Red River Casino pays out major jackpot
DEVOL, Kansas -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The Kiowa Red River Casino awarded the first-ever Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade™ REELdepth™ Slot MegaJackpot® on a penny machine, on Monday, August 10th, making a Buffalo Gap, Texas woman a millionaire when she won an incredible $2,457,187.
The winner, Virginia Cupps, is an office manager who said she visits the casino "about every three months." Cupps said she had a positive feeling about the winning machine. "The machine was hitting earlier and it seemed like a dang good machine" she commented. After investing only $8, the MegaJackpot® winner reported being surprised and excited to learn she had won the top progressive prize. "I didn't know if I hit the $10,000 or the big one!" she explained. The new millionaire said she will continue working at her present job for "one more year" and will use her winnings to pay off all her bills, and plans to spend some on her family.
Friday's jackpot is the first-ever to be awarded on the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade™ REELdepth™ Slot progressive system. It is also the first so far this year, and the single largest MegaJackpot® be paid at the Kiowa Red River Casino. The casino has now awarded four MegaJackpot® prizes totaling an impressive $2.9 million. Two of those prizes were paid on the Wheel of Fortune® quarters progressive, one of the most popular IGT systems. The casino also paid a $296,039 MegaJackpot® on the quirky and nostalgic The Beverly Hillbillies? penny progressive system. The Kiowa Red River Casino, along with over 300 other tribal casinos across the nation, belongs to a 17-state Native American progressive gaming network. Anytime a coin is played in a linked machine, anywhere in the network, the cumulative jackpot continues to grow until it is won.
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