Microgaming’s Progressive Jackpot Network Pays Out €89M In First Six Months Of 2019

Microgaming are renowned for their progressive jackpot slots and more over, the amount of lucky players that have become instant Millionaires playing their popular progressive slots.

Updated: 26 January 2024 By Becky Mosley

Microgaming are renowned for their progressive jackpot slots and more over, the amount of lucky players that have become instant Millionaires playing their popular progressive slots.

€90 Million Winning In First Half Of Year

In the first half of the year, Microgaming progressive slots paid out nearly €90M on 1,150,000 jackpot wins up to June 2019, figures released officially by Microgaming.The hugely popular provider paid out more than €43M in winnings to eight players, with over 380 lucky winners bagging €10,000 or more from the Microgaming jackpot network, which is well known as the biggest in this hugely competitive gambling market.January 2019 was a lucky month for one Zodiac Casino player, they scooped €113,328,028,16 playing the ever-popular Mega Moolah slot, this was the third biggest jackpot payout in Microgaming’s history so far.Following in the footsteps of January’s Millionaire winner, we saw another two players scoop enormous payouts in March 2019. First, on the 5th March a player won €11,546,388,15, the following day another player won €2,201,120.31. During the next few months transformative wins of €5,430,849.65 on the 3rd May, €5,673,937.78 on the 23rd May and €3,034,204.84 on the 17th June, all wins are paid out in lump sums, as are all winnings on the network.

Guinness World Record Win

The biggest win ever paid out in September 2018, a staggering €18,915,872.81 was won at the grand Mondial Casino, the player was spinning reels on Mega Moolah, this surpassed the highest payout of €17,879,645.12 in 2015, which propelled Microgaming in to the Guinness Book Of Records gaing the title for the ‘Largest jackpot payout in an online slot machine game’.CEO at Microgaming, John Coleman said,“ 2019 is gearing up to be a great year for Microgaming’s progressive jackpot network, with total lifetime payouts fast approaching the €1.1Billion mark. Congratulations to all the winning players on the network, which remains the largest in the industry and features the record-breaking Mega Moolah progressive slot. We look forward to hosting more life-changing wins in the second half of the year.”

Becky Mosley
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