The prize went a man who was not named, but is said to be in his mid-30s. According to a press release, he won the prize while playing at Betsafe.com, a site that he had been a customer at since 2007.
Mega Fortune’s jackpot is available at almost all online casinos that offer Net Entertainment games. Rather than allow each side to run their own jackpot, Mega Fortune pools all of the money that comes in from the entire network of sites in order to fund the game’s massive prizes. Players have the same chance of winning the Mega Fortune progressive jackpot no matter which site they choose to play on.
While the prize won on Friday, March 30 was certainly enough to change the winner’s life, it is not the largest prize in the history of the machine. Last September, Mega Fortune paid out a prize of €11.7 million, the largest prize in the history of online gambling. Interestingly, that jackpot was also awarded in Norway, going to a student in that country.
Still, the winner was more than pleased with his jackpot.
“This is incredible,” he said. “I couldn’t believe my eyes, and it all happened so very fast!”
Amazingly, the jackpot win didn’t come after a long session at the casino or a huge string of losses. Instead, the player won the jackpot only seconds after he logged into the casino – a perfect example of how each spin really could prove to be the one that wins a big prize.
Since progressive jackpots are funded by taking a small portion of the money wagered on each spin and contributing it to the jackpot amount, casinos aren’t unhappy when players win these massive prizes – the money is simply held in a prize fund until someone is lucky enough to hit the jackpot. For Net Entertainment CEO Per Eriksson, the real surprise was how quickly the jackpot rose in such a short time.
“It is incredible how high the jackpot built up after being won just two months earlier,” Eriksson said. “We would like to congratulate the winner on his huge success and we look forward to hopefully making many more millionaires in the coming months.
In order to win the Mega Fortune jackpot, players must first activate the bonus game by connecting three bonus symbols on the same payline. This activates the jackpot wheel game, where players spin a large wheel. Each time they spin, players may be rewarded with a small prize, or an arrow that takes them into the next, smaller wheel. Each wheel offers increasingly lucrative prizes or the potential to win some smaller jackpots. At the center of the wheel is the massive Mega Fortune jackpot, which typically grows to several million euros before being hit.