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5. There are nearly 200,000 pokie machines in Australia, and 100,308 of these are in NSW. The
national figure is five times that of the US and represents around 20 per cent of all gaming machines
in the world.
6. The Biggest Slot Machine ever made was created in the early 1960s and was one of the first
machines to feature a motor and electronic hopper which allowed for bigger prizes.
Big Bertha, as the name suggests was a two-tonne monster that sat in the lobbies of major Las
Vegas Casinos. It cost $150,000 to build and featured 160 symbols over 8 reels! It was so big that
people could not pull the actual lever and it had to be powered by a five horsepower engine. The
odds of winning on the big machine were incredibly low, estimated at one in 25.6 billion, because
the machine had eight reels and twenty symbols per reel!
*There have since been many novelty Pokies built that are even larger but none can compare to the
original Big Bertha
7. Microgaming launched the first online pokies for real money in the mid-1990s. Based on
classic three-reel pokies from Vegas casinos, the game meant that players could enjoy pokies from
the comfort of their own front room. The game only had a Spin button and a slider to choose your
stake, but it wouldnt be long before major players like Play tech and Cryptologic were developing
their own Internet pokies
8. Pokies use a RNG (random number generator). This ensures every spin is random and
fair. The pokie will randomly choose its reels the very second you press the button or pull the
handle. Before this point it does not know what it will show next. Pressing 1 second later would
change the outcome to one second before. In fact, the pokie machine continually calculates random
number codes regardless of if it is being used.
This means that if you walk away from the machine and someone else goes on and spins once and
gets the jackpot, that jackpot would probably have not been won by you.
If you had stayed at the machine, theres no guarantee whatsoever that you would have stopped the
RNG at the exact nanosecond to display that same combination of numbers. In the time it takes for
you to sip your drink, the RNG has cycled through thousands of combinations.
9. The slang term one armed bandit was actually originally used to describe the shady
characters who had learned to manipulate the early versions of the slot machine to steal some
money. Over time the expression came to be used for the slot machines themselves.
10. The iconic bar symbol found on modern slot machines comes from the Bell Fruit Gum
company and represents a stick of gum In the early 1900s, and just a few years after they had
been invented, gambling was prohibitied and innovative slot machine owners replaced the coins
with gum and changed the card symbols to fruit. The common fruit symbols are still found on
modern slot machines and were symbols for the gum flavours available from the Bell Fruit Gum
company.
26 years old corporal Jon Heywood from Cheshire become an instant multimillionaire playing in
Betways Online casino late evening on October 6th, 2015. The young veteran who recently
returned from Afghanistan said that he deposited 30 into his account and proceeded to begin a
game of Mega Moolah. Betting a total of 25p per spin brought him 13,213,838.68 win in just 7
minutes (more than 17 million).
Mega Moolah is a five reel, twenty-five payline online progressive slots pokie game
Microgaming confirms its Mega Moolah progressive slot has been hit at a mountainous
5,375,695.08!
The life-changing jackpot was won on 9th April 2015 by Royal Vegas player, Mark A, spinning on
his mobile phone. The player will take home a total of 5,375,695.08, receiving a single cash
payout in full rather than an annuity, so Mark A has become an instant millionaire.
Weve been watching the progressive ticker grow substantially over the last few weeks;
anticipation was building as to when it was going to strike! Once again the jackpot was hit via a
mobile device; it really is a sign of todays industry and how prevalent mobile is! Congratulations to
Mark A on becoming one of the biggest jackpot winners in Microgamings history John Quinn,
Head of Casino at Microgaming