The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa awarded a $2,551,037 Wheel of Fortune MegaJackpot on Nov. 25, the largest to be paid in Florida to date.

The winner, Terese Moore, 57. is from Land-O-Lakes, Florida, and said she was scheduled to go to Las Vegas three days later, but “felt lucky today” and opted for a more local trip. The Associated Press said plans to use the money to help her daughters and grandchildren, and donate some to her church.

She said she came to the casino for a car drawing and had already won $200 before her million-dollar jackpot hit.

She said she was surprised to learn she had won the top progressive prize, but as the reality of her million dollar prize began to sink in, she said she will use her MegaJackpot winnings to pay off her home.

Earlier this summer, on July 19, the Seminole casino in Coconut Creek awarded a $2.3 million MegaJackpot prize on a Wheel of Fortune Special Edition progressive. The Seminole Hard Rock Casino is part of a Native American progressive gaming network that includes over 300 casinos nationwide. Each time a coin is played in a linked machine, anywhere in the network, the jackpot accumulates. Coconut Creek has also been the home to two other $1 million plus payouts this year.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida owns and operates casinos in Brighton, Coconut Creek, Hollywood and Immokalee and Big Cypress, as well as two Hard Rock Hotel & Casino properties located in Hollywood and Tampa.

The $5 Wheel of Fortune progressive system has a starting jackpot of $1 million. In order to win the MegaJackpot, a player bets $10 at a time while attempting to line up the Wheel of Fortune reel symbols on the machine’s payline.