Canada’s Biggest Slot Payout at $8.9M
A Woodbridge, Ontario, woman got a $9-million nest egg this Easter.
Anna Falco, 53, hit the jackpot at Canadian Casino Rama just before midnight Saturday, setting a record for the largest slot payout in Canadian history at exactly $8,920,622.89.
The housewife, who’s been going to the Orillia-area casino with her husband Franco for about 10 years, had been playing the Megabucks slot machine for an hour, spending about $200, when the bells and whistles started to ring.
“When we called our two daughters to share the good news, they thought we were kidding,” an emotional Falco told casino officials as she collected her super-sized cheque.
The couple plans to share their winnings with family and friends.
The nearly $9-million jackpot is also the largest win in Rama’s history, a casino spokesman said.
The previous Canadian record slot win was in October 2004 when a Toronto tax accountant won nearly $5.8 million after spending $60 on a Megabucks progressive slot machine at Niagara’s Fallsview casino.
Megabucks is a slot machine system linking 11 Ontario casinos to escalating jackpots. The jackpots begin at $1 million and continue to climb until someone at one of the 11 casinos hits the winning combination.
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