{"id":3689,"date":"2015-03-20T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2023-02-17T07:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:24:03","slug":"hitting-the-jackpot-top-youtube-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/hitting-the-jackpot-top-youtube-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitting the Jackpot: Top YouTube Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve all dreamt it, right? Hitting that huge slots jackpot, hearing the bells and sirens go off, and watching as a hundred whooping fellow customers head your way.<\/p>\n

It’s a lot easier recording big wins in casinos these days, what with the prevalence of smartphones, and many of the big progressive winners have recorded their jackpots for posterity (and social media).<\/p>\n

Here are five of the biggest wins caught on celluloid (well, HD card) over the past few years.<\/p>\n

#1. Marine Takes Down $2.8 Million Big One<\/strong><\/h2>\n

“No way! No f**king way! We’re millionaires!”<\/p>\n

\"Alexander<\/p>\n

Alexander Degenhardt won a huge jackopot (Image: theblaze.com)Big progressive jackpots always get taken down; not as many get caught on cell phone. However, in 2012 a US marine called Alexander Degenhardt won almost $3 million playing Bally’s Money Vault slot in a Las Vegas casino. As the typically cynical YouTube commentators said: “If you have too much money the marines discharge you because you can be a liability with that much money.” Ok…..<\/p>\n

Watch the marine become America’s most eligible bachelor:<\/p>\n