Microgaming Makes History With £1Billion Progressive Jackpot Payouts

Microgaming, one of the leading software providers has reached a momentous milestone by paying out over £1Billion in Progressive Jackpot payouts.

Updated: 26 January 2024 By Becky Mosley

Microgaming Makes History With £1Billion Progressive Jackpot PayoutsMicrogaming, one of the leading software providers has reached a momentous milestone by paying out over £1Billion in Progressive Jackpot payouts.The benchmark was reached when recently a player at Zodiac Casino won a staggering €13.3 million playing the world famous Mega Moolah progressive slot game. Making the network the largest in the industry to date.

Jackpot Winners

68 Players have won transformational, seven figure sums playing the networks progressive games. Over the last 3 years alone, 30 players have taken home life-changing sums, the popularity of these games just grows on.The lead up to the £1Billion marker sees some massive jackpot wins along the way. At Royal Vegas Casino in 2013, playing on a mobile device, a player scooped the Mega Moolah jackpot, this was the first jackpot to be won on a mobile device.A player then scooped a massive €17,879,645.12 playing the popular Mega Moolah progressive slot making this a World Record breaking win. In September 2018, this amount was exceeded when a player won €18,915,872.81 at the Grand Mondial Casino.

Astonishing Milestone

Speaking of the milestone, Microgaming’s CEO John Coleman said,“ What an astonishing milestone for Microgaming’s progressive jackpot network! We are incredibly proud to see total payouts exceed €1Billion mark- congratulations to all the lucky mega jackpot winners who have been part of this remarkable story. The network has been awarding life-changing wins since 1999, including thousands of five and six figure sums, and we look forward to building on this remarkable success in the future with the development of even more innovative and rewarding gameplay experiences for players.”

Becky Mosley
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