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$16 Million Paid Out in Microgaming Jackpots!! Microgaming Jackpot Network Portal's $16 Million Jackpot Payout Shatters World Records.


Business Editors

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2000

Microgaming has announced that Jackpot Madness Madness


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, the Microgaming Jackpot Network portal (www.jackpotmadness.com), has exceeded a record-breaking $16,000,000 in total jackpot payouts. This exclusive milestone firmly establishes Jackpot Madness as the world's number one online jackpot destination.

The portal features 5 progressive slots games, the oldest and most popular being Cash Splash. Introduced in October 1998, Cash Splash is a three-reel, three-coin single-line progressive slot machine connected to numerous casinos A list of casinos. Antigua and Barbuda
  • St. James's Club Antigua in Mamora Bay
  • Casino Riviera in Runaway Bay
  • Grand Princess Casino in St. John's
  • King's Casino in St.
 using the company's proprietary software. The game's popularity has grown rapidly in two years and is now available at more than 50 online casinos Online casinos, also known as virtual casinos or internet casinos, are online versions of traditional ("brick and mortar") casinos. Online casinos enable gamblers to play and wager on casino games through the Internet. . Two additional progressive games, "Wowpot," another three-reel, three-coin, single-line progressive slot and "Lotsaloot," a three-reel, three-coin, five-line progressive slot game, were added last April. These were followed in August by two more games: "Supajax," a video poker Video poker is a casino game based on five-card draw poker. It is played on a computerized console which is a similar size to a slot machine.

History
Video poker first became commercially viable when it became economical to combine a television-like monitor with a
 progressive and "Fruit Fiesta," a three-reel, three-coin, three-line progressive slot. With thousands of people playing simultaneously across the entire Microgaming Jackpot Network, massive progressive jackpots A progressive jackpot is a jackpot (highest payoff) for a gaming machine (usually a slot machine or video poker machine) where the value of the jackpot increases a small amount for every game played.  are won on a daily basis.

The site keeps a running real-time jackpot counter for inquiring inquiring,
v to draw information from a client—whether by verbal questioning or physical examination—to assess the person's state of health.
 gamers, as well as links to casinos offering Microgaming's progressive games. It also features a casino casino or cassino (both: kəsē`nō).

1 Card game played with a full deck by two to four players. Its origins are obscure though it probably traces back to the Italian game of Scopa.
 search page where players can select a casino based upon their favorite jackpot game, current jackpot values or the price of placing a jackpot-enabled bet. Winner interviews are also featured on the site, as well as details about how much money has been won during the month as well as the total Jackpot Madness money paid.

A total of 565 lucky winners have shared in the $16,000,000 jackpot bonanza Bonanza

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. The landmark win that pushed Jackpot Madness over the $16 million point was a $50,196.61 jackpot won by Carol D. at King Solomon's Casino December 2.

More than 55 players hit super jackpots in November alone, breaking all previously-held monthly payout pay·out  
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 records and totaling nearly 2 million dollars. December guarantees to be another exceptional month, with more than $600,000 paid out in the first week, alone.

"As anticipated, Jackpotmadness.com is hugely successful and drawing vast numbers of players to the over 50 casinos connected to the portal." said Lisa Wycherley, Senior VP of Operations at Microgaming Systems. "With over $16,000,000 in jackpot payouts in a relatively short period of time, the popularity of the site has exceeded all of our expectations."

About Microgaming Systems:

Microgaming Systems (www.microgaming.com) is the leading developer of online casino systems and the developer of a majority of the Internet's most popular casinos. The company provides some of the most sophisticated security technology and fraud control tracking of any e-commerce site and is fast becoming the industry pace-setter in enabling technology for security, marketing and large scale e-commerce trade. Microgaming Systems is also a founding member of the Interactive Gaming Council, an industry self-regulatory body.
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