El Gordo is one of the highest-paying lotteries in the world and a real spectacle in its home country of Spain. This year's draw took place - as always - on 22 December in the time-honoured Teatro Real opera house in Madrid. The hustle and bustle seems to get more colourful from year to year. In addition, the participants in the current edition had to wait an unusually long time for the jackpot.
Legitimate German online casinos are subject to strict rules, including a maximum stake limit of one euro per game. Given this betting limit, the potential winnings are also limited. Nevertheless, it is possible to win quite a lot on virtual slot machines. We have researched the issue of maximum winnings and come up with some interesting facts.
The Spanish Christmas lottery El Gordo is potentially one of the most lucrative and popular lottery games in the world. The total prize money is in the billions. No wonder so many Germans take part in the draw every year. However, the Joint Gaming Authority of the German States (GGL) recently issued an urgent warning in a press release against buying such tickets in Germany.
Lotto always writes strange, funny and even tragic stories. This one is definitely not in the latter category: A woman from Baden-Württemberg hit the Eurojackpot last week. On Friday the 13th, of all days, the lucky woman was able to enjoy one of the biggest German lottery wins ever. Read the full story here.
At the beginning of July this year, a player in the gambling metropolis of Las Vegas hit a multi-million dollar slot machine jackpot. The winner, who is said to have come directly from Las Vegas, won 10.5 million US dollars in one go. But which slot machine changed the player's life, and what else is known about the lucky man?
One tourist's stay at the Las Vegas airport really paid off. Bored while waiting for his flight, he sat down in front of one of the many slot machines and tried his luck. A few seconds later, he had won more than US$1.3 million. The impressive jackpot win can be seen in a video posted on Twitter.
In the past, the EuroJackpot in Germany has been a record-breaker. In June of this year, the previous record was set. A single tipper or a lottery syndicate from Schleswig-Holstein can be happy about the huge sum of €120 million.
On the 1st. May 2023 a casino visitor at the Spielbank Wiesbaden managed to crack the jackpot. What’s special: the visitor has won more than half a million. It is very rare in a German casino that so much money changes ownership at one go. During which game did this stroke of luck happen and what do we know about the winner?
Lotto is the most popular form of games of chance in the world. Many people around the world do their marks regularly and thus it is no wonder that in lotto there are very curious occurrences. In a recent case a US American cleared the large jackpot because he made a critical mistake which he really regretted.
Last Sunday, the 5th. March 2023, a female player, won the fantastic and huge amount of nearly 100,000 Euro in the casino in Hamburg. Shortly before 20:00 a visitor in the Casino Mundsburg cracked the so-called Hamburg Jackpot. How much money did the woman gamble in the casino and in which game did she crack the jackpot?
A jackpot which runs into billions was cracked around a week ago in America. This is the main win of the famous lottery Powerball. According to reports in the media the winning ticket was bought in the US Federal State of California. The lucky chap can now rejoice as he won around two billion US-Dollar.
A few days ago a player from Velden in Austria managed to crack the legendary Fort Knox Jackpot. Just a week before the jackpot had been won by another player. The casino guest from Carinthia was pleased to win 204,000 Euro. What was special in this case was the short time it took the player from the start of the game to winning the jackpot.
At the beginning of the past week the so-called Bayern-Jackpot was cracked in the Spielbank Bad Füssing. The happy winner could well rejoice over a record-breaking win of more than 870,000 Euro. But in which slot machine was the Jackpot cracked and what does the winner plan to do with so much money?
A man from Kärnten in Austria seems to have found his luck. First, he won a four-digit amount in the lotto. Then he decided to continue playing in the Casino Velden and a short while later he won the highest slot machine jackpot in the country. How is this unbelievable story possible?
As the magazine “ Spiegel“ has reported a few weeks ago, a man won an impressive 229,000 US-Dollar in the casino. The Problem: he did not realise that he had won and he left the casino. Intensive investigations were carried out till the lucky chap was informed and thus the winning could be paid out.