Walter and Linda Misco
An American couple have scooped $2.4m (£1.45m) after winning the most anticipated jackpot in Las Vegas slot machines.
Walter and Linda Misco from New Hampshire won the Lion share’s payout last Friday.
The couple were playing the slot machine for five minutes when they saw the three green emblems line up horizontally on the jackpot pay line.
In a statement, the MGM Grand casino said:
“We’ve waited over 20 years for this! Our famous Lion’s Share Finally Hit for $2.4 million.”
For two decades, the slot machine had attracted queues of punters who were attracted to the huge jackpot, which accumulated over 20 years of parsimony.
The Lion’s Share was the most popular slot of 1,900 at the MGM Grand Casino.
It was played approximately almost once, every five seconds, every day.
Justin Andrews of MGM Grand said: This game probably gets played about five times more than our average game on the casino floor. Our staff gets asked every single day, multiple times, where this game is, from people who haven’t played it before.”
The machine has become so renowned that it has its own Twitter account, @mgmlionsshare.
The popularity of the machine was also fuelled this year by a Wall Street Journal piece earlier this year highlighting its formidable bounty.
According to Nevada law, slot machines must pay out 75 per cent of the money that goes into them. Now it has relinquished its jackpot, the $1-a-go machine – the only game left from an entire network of slots installed in the early 1990s – will be retired.
MGM Grand is mulling over whether to allow the Miscos to take the machine home with them.
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