WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A 29 year old bwin casino player beat the odds this week when he won a life changing mobile slots jackpot - $1,917,474.66 (€1,405,669) - on the Melon Madness slot with a €16 bet from his iPhone.
The winner landed the ‘Big One’ playing on his phone at bwin’s http://bwin.com/casino mobile site. Reacting to his win, he said “I was at home when I hit the jackpot. It felt great! I can’t believe how lucky I am!”.
To put the win into perspective, here’s what the player could buy with $1.9 million:-
· 63,915 football shirts
· 7,490 pairs of the new Adidas Predator LZ football boot as worn by Arsenal’s new German signing Mesut Ozil
· One Bugatti Veyron super car as driven by Chelsea’s Samual Eto’o
· 1.4% of Gareth Bale, the world’s most expensive footballer, recently purchased from Tottenham Hotspur by Real Madrid for €100 Million
· 2,954 iPhone 5s’ as used in the winning bet
· Or 678,574 honeydew melons – that is melon madness!
Commenting on the win, bwin’s Director of Games Golan Shaked said:
“We are delighted one of our players has hit such an amazing jackpot of nearly $2 million from a mobile phone. We are focusing a huge amount of time and energy on building the best mobile casino available and it is great to see our players enjoying, and winning, on our games”
bwin’s mobile casino (https://casino.bwin.com/mobile/mobilecasino) and bwin.com parent site http://bwin.com. bwin casino pays out some of the biggest jackpots online. ‘The Big One Colossal Cash’ jackpot has been instantly replenished and can be won by playing Melon Madness and other premium slot games such as Going Nuts, Snow Business and Loot’EnKhamun. The jackpot is already at more than £1 million, and growing by the second.
Other great games that can be enjoyed at http://bwin.com/casino include Aztec Gold, Mega Fortune Wheel and traditional casino favourites blackjack and roulette with more games being added all the time.
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