Tropicana Atlantic City was the site of an unprecedented $1.1 million progressive poker jackpot last weekend.
Caesars Entertainment says a New Jersey man won $1,105,757.10 on a $5 wager at its Tropicana casino resort. Steve Callender, regional president for Caesars’ three casinos in Atlantic City, said the more than $1.1 million hit is the largest progressive poker win in the history of Caesars Entertainment in New Jersey.
The lucky individual is Frank Nagy, who lives in Monmouth County. A longtime Tropicana regular, Nagy shared the wealth by tipping the casino staff members $50,000.
The progressive jackpot is built by six games: Four Card Poker, Let It Ride, Three Card Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold’em, Mississippi Stud Poker, and Texas Hold’em Poker. With each play, a small portion of the bet is directed to the collective jackpot.
The prize pool is generated by the games located in the company’s three Atlantic City casinos — Caesars, Harrah’s, and Tropicana.
Not All Lucky Gamblers Tip
While tipping is common in a casino, and expected by dealers, big jackpot winners don’t always take care of their gaming floor staff.
On Christmas Eve last year, a man only identified as “Kevin,” hit what is believed to be Nevada’s biggest jackpot in eight years. After betting about $40 on a Megabucks progressive slot machine at Suncoast Hotel and Casino, Kevin hit the jackpot worth $15,491,103.27.
But according to various accounts from servers and onlookers, Kevin didn’t take the Frank Nagy way. Instead, he left the casino without tipping even a dollar.
Reported to be a part-time resident in Las Vegas who splits his time with Alaska, Kevin is said to be in his 30s.
“Kevin does not tip,” said one Twitter user replying to a post from Las Vegas blogger Scott Roeben. “I have the inside info. He ate his food, didn’t give a dollar. Good luck to Kevin the Grinch!”
Fortunes Won During Pandemic
2020 was a most difficult year. COVID-19 has been cited for nearly half of a million deaths in the United States.
As life is beginning to show signs of returning to some sense of normal, albeit a new normal, recent life-changing jackpots have delivered some welcomed news to many tired of reading about all the bad in the world.
Last month, a Powerball ticket worth $731.1 million was sold in Maryland.
“Hard-luck Maryland town gets a $731.1 million Powerball win” is how the Associated Press covered the win. The ticket was sold by a local convenience store in Lonaconing in the northwestern part of the state.
The town was built on around an iron furnace that closed in 1855. A glassworks factory shuttered in the early 1990s, and coal mining jobs disappeared following World War II. Today, Lonaconing has a poverty rate of 22 percent, more than double the US national average rate of 10.5 percent.
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