"One huge advantage tribal casinos have over state-regulated casinos in the Chicago-area market is the availability of wide-area progressive slot machines capable of awarding jackpots in the hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars.
When jackpots are funded by banks of machines that are networked in properties state-wide or even around the country, huge progressive awards are made possible by the vast number of people who play the games. One of the most popular genres of these slot games comes from International Game Technology (IGT) in the form of MegaJackpots. Machines are available in many themes in different denominations, but something they have in common is the ability to make slot players instantly rich. Timothy T., a lucky slot player who hails from Buchanan, Mich., started the New Year off a big winner when he won a $744,966.02 jackpot playing "The Great and Powerful Oz" penny slot machine from WMS Gaming in the early morning of Jan. 1 at Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Mich." Get the Story: