Microgaming software's Mega Moolah records highest Jackpot win

31 Oct. 2015

Microgaming produce a wide variety of gambling software games in conjunction with the Isle of Man, it uses a combination of licensed and branded content for their games and players entertainment. Microgaming software is well-known for the largest online Bingo jackpot prize of 5.88 million and the largest mobile gaming jackpot of 3.7 million. The mega moolah slot game brought about the mega jackpot win of around 13 million euros. This slot game is one of the initial progressive jackpots online games developed by Microgaming software in 2009.

The slot game has a total of 4 jackpots with the largest jackpot been around 5 million euros. The slot game interface is amazing, making the slot game a whole lot of fun to play. The slot game has a total of 5-reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines. The minimum bet in this slot game is 0.01 euros and a maximum bet of 6.25 euros. The least bet in this slot game can however guarantee you a multi-million win, thus the more times you play the greater your chances of landing on a jackpot prize. The Random Number Generator also calculates your chance of either landing on a mini, minor, major or the mega jackpot prize also referred to as the progressive pooled jackpot, which can be won at any given time. The slot game can be played from mobile phones, and since it is a low volatility slot you are always assured of cashing in wins regularly thus maintaining your casino balance while playing for longer periods of time.

Progressive jackpot wins are generated from a number of online casinos overtime. Every time a player records a win, it is recorded for future reference. In March 2003, a 25 year old player at the Las Vegas casino won just under 40 million dollars for a venture of $100 playing the Megabucks slot. In 2013, a finish player won a mega fortune of around 17,861,813.

However, on October, 7th 2015, the slot game recorded the highest jackpot ever. This was recorded by a UK online casino player, Jonathan Heywood who could not believe his luck when he won the mega jackpot prize of 13, 213,838.68 euros in his Betway account. The Microgaming's progressive jackpot policy states that all winnings are supposed to be paid up in full, thus the slot game jackpot winner will be presented his win in a lump sum. Alan Alger who is the Betaway's spokesman congratulated the mega jackpot winner immediately after Microgaming's CEO, Roger Raatgever, also sent out his congratulatory message stating that since 1998 when the largest progressive jackpot prize was launched that the player had set a record, generating the world largest online jackpot win. Even though, the 2013 Mega jackpot prize seems to be the bigger takedown, the exchange rate at that time was 1.3531 which means that Jonathan Heywood beat the jackpot by around 18,000 euros.