Player Wins More than AU$11M on Mobile
The biggest win in recent times came to exactly €8,012,153.35, making the largest jackpot ever paid out on a mobile device. This lucky winner was playing in his or her own local currency of Euros and wishes to remain anonymous. All we know about this player is that he or she was playing at Tipico online casino and that the lucky winning spin on Microgaming’s Mega Moolah mobile pokie came to just €6.25.
When you convert these amounts into Australian dollars, it means that the lucky winning spin cost approximately AU$9.00 and that the total win came to approximately AU$11,696,173.66. However, if the winner had been playing in, for example, GBP/NZD or CAD at the time of triggering the jackpot, he or she would have won £8,012,153.35, NZ$8,012,153.35 or CA$8,012,153.35.
This record-breaking win beat the previous record of €7,968,311.26 which was set back in August 2016 and the player ended up winning the Mega Jackpot (the largest of four individual progressive jackpots) from within the randomly triggered progressive jackpot bonus round. The jackpot instantly reset to its original seed amount of $/€/£1,000,000.00 and it will never drop below this amount.
The great news for Australian players is that the Mega Jackpot on all of the Mega Moolah pokies have already climbed back up to almost AU$2,000,000.00. Some of the other games in this series include the Mega Moolah Isis pokie, the Mega Moolah Summertime pokie and also the Mega Moolah 5 Reel Drive pokie.
You can play on any of these progressive jackpot pokies on desktop or on mobile and they can now be found at numerous top-rated Australian online casinos such as Royal Vegas Casino, Casino Mate and Jackpot City Casino. All of these eCOGRA-certified, Microgaming powered casinos are free to sign up to and they have all been reviewed right here for you on www.AustralianOnlineCasino.com.
We managed to obtain the following comments directly from an official Microgaming press release. “It’s incredible to think in just over a month the mega jackpot climbed from 4.3 million (as at 21 March) to 8 million (as at 25 April),” said the Games Published at Microgaming, David Reynolds.
“To see our own record for the largest ever mobile jackpot payout break is fantastic - we’d like to congratulate the Tipico player on their life-changing win,” added Reynolds. This latest big win means that Microgaming’s progressive jackpot network has now paid out more than €716 million (approximately AU$1 billion) in jackpot winnings.
