The 8 Biggest Online Casino Jackpots of All-time
Posted by Harry Kane on Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The iGaming market now represents significant business in the UK, with the sector generating an impressive GGY of £5.49 billion in the year ending September 2019.
There’s no doubt that the growing demographic of players in the UK have benefitted significantly from this, with the average size of payouts and in-game jackpots having increased exponentially over the course of the last decade.
With this in mind, here are eight of the biggest online casino jackpots of all-time in the UK, as we take a look at some of the most fortunate players ever to wager their hard-earned cash online!
1. A £2.7 Million Jackpot on Mega Fortune Dreams
While this is the lowest payout on our list, a haul of £2.7 million is still a more than competitive reward for a leisurely afternoon playing slot games.
This incredible prize was won by a 59-year-old lady called Susan, who was wagering on the progressive slot game Mega Fortune Dreams when she banked this incredible seven-figure prize.
This achievement is even more impressive given that she had only been playing for a few moments before landing the game’s top progressive prize, with the funds providing a much-needed top-up to her otherwise modest retirement fund!
Susan won the prize while playing at the Casumo website, while it’s incredible to think that this isn’t the biggest payout recorded by a game that’s frequently played across the globe.
2. A £2.7 Million Jackpot on Mega Moolah
Mega Moolah is arguably the single most iconic progressive slot, with this Microgaming title responsible for the biggest UK casino jackpot win (we’ll have a little more on this below).
Plenty of players have made their fortune playing this incredible game, and just last year a regular online gambler claimed a jackpot prize of £2.772 million to join the ranks of Microgaming millionaires.
It’s also interesting to note that this payout was earned with a paltry £6.50 stake, although the player has chosen to remain anonymous after banking his life-changing prize.
3. A £3.6 Million Jackpot on Mega Fortune
Next up is a £3.6 million haul that was banked back in 2015, once again by an incredibly lucky (and similarly anonymous) player.
According to the UK media reports of the time, however, the player wasn’t a consistent or high stakes gambler, and was able to win this vast amount on a single stake of £10 at BGO’s online casino.
Of course, this prize represented the Mega Jackpot, although you can also bank smaller Major and Rapid Jackpot prizes when playing this popular slot.
4. A £4.5 Million Jackpot on Jackpot Giant
A member of the Playtech family, Jackpot Giant is a popular and widely played progressive slot that has triggered a number of seven figure payouts since its inception back in 2014.
The biggest ever payout here (and the second largest jackpot prize in Playtech’s history) remains a cool £4.5 million, which was claimed by an anonymous female player who we happen to know heralds from Glasgow in Scotland.
Once again, she had only played for a few minutes after logging into her chosen online casino before winning the prize, which made for an incredible haul in exchange for just few minutes work!
In fact, one report at the time estimated that the winner would have had to work for 170 years to earn the same amount of money on her current salary, so this really was a life-changing event for this lucy player!
5. A £6.2 Million Jackpot on Mega Fortune
Now we come to a Mega Fortune slot win again, which incredibly came at the same BGO casino responsible for the aforementioned jackpot listed at number three.
Adopting the username ‘Wellzyc’, the player told reporters that he banked the whopping £6.2 million prize from a modest stake of just £1.25, which by our calculations represents an incredible 4,960,000x return on investment.
This is superior to any stock or forex option that we’ve ever come across, so it’s no surprise that Wellzyc was utterly bewildered when the on-screen message appeared saying that he’d won the jackpot.
What’s more, this payout was triggered during the festive season, with Wellzyc insisting that he planned to take his family to Disneyland as his first priority!
6. A £6.3 Million Jackpot on Hall of Gods
Slightly higher on our list is this £6.3 million Hall of Gods jackpot, which was claimed by Neil from Aberdeen at an anonymous UK casino platform.
Once again, Neil became a millionaire just a few minutes after registering at his chosen casino site, (there’s a theme developing here), following an initial deposit of £30 and a total stake of £4 overall.
This is a truly incredible turn of events, especially as Neil wasn’t a regular gambler and was relatively new to the iGaming marketplace.
Neil was so shocked to have become a millionaire with a single spin of the Hall of Gods reels, that he had to ask his family members to verify his receipt of the jackpot prize.
7. A £7.9 Million Jackpot on Mega Moolah
We’ll close with two Mega Moolah jackpots, the first of which took the form of a £7.9 million payout back in 2015.
While this was claimed by an anonymous player, we do know that the win came at the popular Zodiac Casino in the UK, while the jackpot was also won on a mobile device and subsequently entered the Guiness World Book of Records.
This record remains unchanged to this day, although we wouldn’t be surprised to see this broken at some point as the iGaming market continues to grow at an exponential rate.
8. A £13.2 Million Jackpot on Mega Moolah
We finish with our only eight-figure jackpot payout, which as we mentioned earlier was won on the Mega Moolah slot from Microgaming.
The lucky winner’s name was Jon Heywood, who claimed the £13.2 million jackpot and became a multi-millionaire overnight from a single stake of just £0.25.
Heywood, who is a former English soldier, was so stunned by the size of his win that he initially kept it a secret, preferring instead to attend work and report for duty as usual before informing his family of his triumph!
Apparently, he used some of his haul to fund his ailing father’s medical bills, and we can’t think of a finer way to spend some of your online casino jackpot prize!