created an online account<\/a> at PlaySugarHouse.com on his smartphone Monday night. The first game he selected was Divine Fortune, an interactive progressive slot.<\/p>\nOn his very first spin, he hit the Mega Jackpot worth $193,737. It was the largest payout in SugarHouse’s online history.<\/p>\n
Describing his big win to The New York Times<\/i>, Lopes explained, “I thought, ‘This is not happening.’ I told my wife, ‘I don’t feel well. My legs are shaking.’ She said, ‘We need to get you to the emergency room.'”<\/p>\n
Lopes plans to use the money to pay off bills and fix up their house. He said he had tested some internet casinos when they first became legal in 2013, but hadn’t made an online bet in a number of years.<\/p>\n
SugarHouse Casino is located in Philadelphia, but the parent company operates in New Jersey through a partnership with Atlantic City’s Golden Nugget and its iGaming license.<\/p>\n
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Beginner’s Luck: Fact or Fiction?<\/b><\/h2>\n
Beginner’s luck is a supposed phenomenon defined by “novices experiencing disproportionate frequency of success against an expert in a given activity.” The term is also applied when no skill whatsoever is needed, as is the case in playing the lottery or a slot machine.<\/p>\n
While the validity of beginner’s luck is certainly not an exact science, some statisticians believe the phenomenon arises “from a disconnect between the player and the pressure of the game,” as a novice is inexperienced and therefore has little expected positive outcome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A bit of beginner’s luck won two individuals considerable money this month and will make many others wonder why they haven’t been as lucky. In Quebec, Charlie Lagarde celebrated her 18th birthday by purchasing a bottle of sparkling wine and her first-ever lottery ticket. When she scratched off the game, Lagarde discovered she had just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":73979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,13699],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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