Hard Rock has record $424,694 payout
They're ahead on entertainment and glitz, and now the Hard Rock may be catching up on big jackpot payouts: A 79-year-old man from Coral Springs won $424,694.38 on the slots at the Hard Rock Dec. 12, the highest payout ever there, the casino said.
Tampa Hard Rock a few weeks ago paid out a $2.5 million jackpot to a slot player, and Seminole Coconut Creek has had three $1 million plus jackpots, including one over $2 million, this year.
The man played a Bally Technologies “Quarter Million$,” two-cent slot machine. He played a 125-credit maximum bet. The maximum bet must be played in order to win the progressive award.
This machine is an “area wide” progressive slot, meaning it’s linked to other Indian casinos throughout the United States. Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino was the first casino in Florida to install wide-area progressive slot machines in April 2008. Casinos are Broward pari-mutuels have "linked progressives," meaning they are linked to each other, but only in the one casino.
On Saturday at the Hard Rock, a 42-year-old woman from Lake Worth won $200,000 on an IGT “Double Double Bonus Poker” Vegas-style poker machine. She played the maximum bet and won with four aces.
Both players declined to be identified, the casino said.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
