Big wins 2015 of the year
26 December an unknown person won the jackpot in 43,3 million dollars in Canadian Lotto Max. The winning ticket was purchased in the city of Mississauga, Ontario. Besides, eight more tickets with 721 thousands of dollars were purchased in cities in Ontario, as well as three each in the provinces of Quebec and British Columbia.
18 October, an unknown lottery ticket holder tore the largest lottery in the history of the Canadian Lotto 6/49 jackpot in the amount 64 million Canadian dollars (49,5 million US dollars). Lucky ticket was sold in Mississauga, Canada west of Toronto.
30 July it became known, that a Virginia truck driver won the Mega Millions lottery 153 million dollars. By law, after taxes, 52-year-old Stephen Pelokin received 92 million - the lucky one chose to pay in cash 153 millions of consecutive annual payments.
19 June ticket holder for the popular EuroMillions lottery, bought in Madrid, won in the prize draw 25 million euros.
29 May resident of the Kaliningrad region "Gosloto" 6 out of 45 " (1336-and circulation) won the accumulated super prize, equal 126 million 925 thousand 38 rubles.
13 May EuroMillons lottery ticket holder, bought in Barcelona, won over 47,8 million euros. Known, that he made five bets on the Internet - on five different combinations. One of them turned out to be successful.
30 January at the drawing of the 1138th draw of the Russian lottery "Gosloto" 6 out of 45 "more than 200 million rubles were divided among themselves by residents of the Murmansk region and the Stavropol Territory. A resident of the Murmansk region won 102 million 293 thousand 526 rubles, while his rate was 2,8 thousand rubles. A lottery participant from the Stavropol Territory won 101 million 587 thousand 947 rubles, his rate is 1,8 thousand rubles.
17 January large Canadian Lotto lottery Max brought unknown 50 million Canadian dollars. The winning ticket was sold in the province of Alberta. To be specified, that two more people won a prize in the amount of 1 million dollars.
13 January, former New York school principal Harold Diamond hit the jackpot in the Mega Millions lottery, becoming the owner of a prize in the amount of 326 million dollars, the largest ever draw in New York.
What is a jackpot and what is it like?
Let's figure it out first, what is it all about.
Usually the jackpot is called a super prize, which can be obtained from a certain game. Unknown, when the casino had the idea to reward players with such prizes, but the word "jackpot" itself has been known in England for at least 19 century.
What gives the jackpot? Its amount is much more than those rates, which are made specifically for this game. It is paid out of those deductions, which the gambling establishment makes with every dollar it receives.
for example:
- At the poker table during the week there were 500 games.
- In total, the casino received $100 000.
- 5% of this amount is deposited on the jackpot.
- Player, who is lucky, can take home $5 000, putting the usual $100 or $200.
I.e, jackpot is a kind of "fund" of the institution, which is replenished from casino income.
There are two main types of jackpots.
Fixed small jackpot
It is often used on slot machines. Actually, the very essence of slot machines boils down to small jackpots. Most of them work like this:
- You put 100 rubles and twist.
- Will drop out 3 apples - get 200 rubles.
- 3 orange - 500 rubles.
- 3 banana - 1000 rubles.
- 3 cocktail - 5 000 rubles.
If on the machine 3 drum with 5 different symbols, then the probability of getting any winning combination is 0.08%. Which means, What's on 100 spins the machine will work 100 x 100 = 10 000 rubles and will pay in total 6 800, If everyone 4 combinations will play. This mathematics allows the organizer of this game to live well., but players also have a chance to really win.
For an online casino owner, the income is especially high, because maintenance costs are much less, a 100 players from different cities and countries can make bets in just half an hour or even faster.
However, that machine, which we gave as an example, is an average winning, since the maximum jackpot is x50 of the bet amount. But there are also more winning ones - for example, such, where for the falling of the three highest symbols the player receives the sum, multiplied by 100 or even 500 time.
Thus, the casino kills two birds with one stone - it encourages players to play more and bet large sums..
It's very insulting, if you got x500, when did you put 1 ruble instead of 100.
Accumulative big jackpot
This is just the one, for which the casino sets aside a portion of its income. The big jackpot has two main parameters:
- Its size.
- Conditions for obtaining.
The size grows with every new game. Often, the jackpot amount is written in large numbers above the entrance to the casino, over the gambling table or on the website. After all, the inscription “jackpot today is $8 888»Can attract more customers, than any other ad.
Sometimes, if the conditions for receiving the jackpot are very difficult, it can grow to completely exorbitant levels. There have been cases in the history of casinos, when for several years the jackpot reached a million dollars or more.
true, in such situations, the casino usually decides, that it is completely irrational to pay such an amount into one person, so instead, smaller jackpots are drawn with simplified conditions for obtaining. And the accumulated million is used precisely as a prize fund.
As for the conditions for getting a big jackpot, then the casino decides for itself, in what cases it will be paid. For poker games, these can be different rare combinations of cards, which should be involved. for example, the so-called "royal flush" (5 cards from ace to ten, thrown out at once). If the player has thrown such a combination and won, then can count on the jackpot.
In the case of slot machines, the jackpot condition is usually:
- Losing a line of the rarest symbols.
- Super game win, which opens as a reward for the previous win.
Frequent daily, weekly or monthly jackpot drawings. In this case, a list of all players is compiled, who have thrown out the required combination or won the super game during this time, and among them the jackpot is drawn. Usually the choice is made by a random number generator.
In general, winning the jackpot is quite realistic for any player.. It happens, that a man picks a big jackpot, the only time in his life who entered a casino and bet very little money. for example, in 2003 year in Las Vegas, one man played with a slot machine for only $100, and won already 40 million.
Of course, luck chooses who it wants. However, there are some principles, which maximize the chance of, that the jackpot will fall out for you.
Jackpot types. Progressive jackpot
Jackpots are (1) predetermined or (2) progressive.
In the first case, the player is guaranteed to take possession of the jackpot of a fixed size when a predetermined winning combination falls out or the expected event occurs.
Progressive jackpot - sometimes referred to as cumulative jackpot - no upper limits. Its value often reaches tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars..
The peculiarity of the progressive jackpot is the constant increase in the money fund created for it due to the percentage deductions from the amounts lost by the participants in the game or lottery.
Due to the participation of hundreds of thousands of participants in certain draws, the size of the progressive jackpot can be comparable to the annual budget of an island nation ...
Accumulating jackpots are widely used in slot machines, video slots and video games, helping to whet interest in them to incredible limits. Greed, coupled with passion, do their "dirty deed": people literally lose their heads in an effort to get rich at once ...
Winning the progressive jackpot isn't easy. It takes more than just luck, and the real favor of Destiny. Millions of gamers see themselves as applicants for such fabulous money, and the more there are, the smaller the chances of a single player to win.
Any casino will benefit from equipping slot machines with a progressive jackpot, because its size is ALWAYS an order of magnitude less than the profit from the services provided by the casino. But a more powerful publicity stunt, inevitably attracting customers, still not invented.
A big win is always made up of the total amount of money lost by less fortunate players. You must always be aware of this., crossing the threshold of the casino or registering on the next virtual playground ...
5 a place. Alexander from Barnaul - 232,5 million (April 2018 g.)
In April 2018 r. the winner of the 217th draw of the "4 out of 20" lottery is a native of Barnaul. He got a super prize of 232 million 473 thousand. 870 rub. Barnaul won this amount, crossing out an interesting combination of numbers in the playing fields of the ticket: 11, 12, 16, 17 and 14, 15, 19, 20.
На покупку счастливого билета победителю пришлось потратить 2 500 rub. But a curious situation occurred with the payment and registration of the ticket.. When Alexander filled all the fields, registration terminal stopped working. Therefore, the man asked the kiosk employee to do all the necessary operations after, how the system will start working. В качестве оплаты он оставил женщине 1 000 rub. and ticket, по которому он до этого выиграл 1 500 rub. The most interesting, that it was Valentina Vasilievna, the very seller of lottery tickets, that was the first to know about Alexandra's win.
Rice. 5. The same kiosk worker
The very same 50-year-old Barnaul, who worked as a truck driver all his life and dreamed of his own home, tried my luck for 10 years, until I hit a fabulous jackpot.
To this topic: How much truckers earn.
The winner dreams of buying his own house, take the mother to Barnaul and cure the disabled brother.
The celebrity kiosk woman also does not hide her hopes for the gratitude of a millionaire client.. After all, she recently bought a car on credit and dreams of visiting her historical homeland on Sakhalin.
From Russia with love
The largest winnings belong not only to foreign players and bookmaker clients. Domestic sports fans were also able to make history, having hit a big jackpot. And not necessarily the largest bet in the world, but the size of some may surprise. Known recent cases:
- the user of the Marathon office set 1,5 million. rubles for the victory of Belgium, which was supposed to rival Sweden, Germany and Tunisia. He ended up getting 3,25 million;
- another representative of the domestic winners is a Moscow businessman, who bet on one of the players in the Australian tennis championship. By choosing outcomes on 15 games, and putting 50 rubles, Muscovite won 141 million in Vinline;
- in February 2020 bettor in BC Olympus put 500 rubles per coupon from 6 NHL matches, in which in all positions chose the outcome of a draw in regulation time. Coefficient - 2000 brought a lucky analyst 1 one million rubles;
- and another client of the same bookmaker Olympus won the KHL this season 1,26 million, put 200000 rubles for kef 6,3.
- Probably the biggest win in recent years was for the forecaster Fonbet at the last world championship - almost 15 million rubles at a rate of 2,85 million. to win the French in the final.
It is problematic to name the largest bet in the world due to the fact, that many do not want to "shine", and services for collecting such information are not yet provided. Occasionally bookmakers run unnamed infographics or publish news about the brightest winnings, what we shared with you.
Article author: Evgeniy
