COUPLE HITS THE BIG ONE : WIFE WINS $374,076.77 SLOT JACKPOT.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer In 1978 Jim Wildman wrote ``Increase Your Luck in Slots,'' a self-published guide for gamblers. Eighteen years and a lot of small change later, his own advice paid off over the weekend when his wife won a $374,076.77 jackpot in a nickel nickel, metallic chemical element; symbol Ni; at. no. 28; at. wt. 58.69; m.p. about 1,453°C;; b.p. about 2,732°C;; sp. gr. 8.902 at 25°C;; valence 0, +1, +2, +3, or +4. slot machine in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Kay KAY Kick Ass Year KAY Kansas Association of Youth Wildman, 49, said she normally plays the quarter machine and sat down at the nickel machine at the Tropicana Resort and Casino to kill time before going to bed early Saturday. ``I knew by the way it was going off that I had just won, but I didn't have any idea how much it was going to be,'' said the sales clerk sales clerk n (US) → dependiente/a m/f sales clerk n (US) → commesso/a for Longs Drugs Longs Drugs (NYSE: LDG) is a pharmacy chain store located in the West Coast of the United States. It was founded in 1938 by brothers Thomas and Joseph Long (son-in-law of Marion Barton Skaggs, co-founder of Safeway Inc.), with their first store in Oakland, California. in Newbury Park. ``I never thought it would be anything like that.'' Jim Wildman, director of programs for American Nucleonics nucleonics the study of nucleons or of atomic nuclei and their reactions; nuclear physics. Corp in Westlake Village, said that his wife hit the jackpot by following one of his rules for gambling: When losing at slots, stop playing and get a drink or relax by the pool, then maybe hit another kind of slot machine later. He also advises slots players to set a limit on the amount of money they'll sacrifice. ``She sticks to the limit,'' he said. Ira David Sternberg, a spokesman for the Tropicana, said the Wildman jackpot was a record nickel payoff for the casino. ``I would say that given the denominations, comparing nickels
Nickels is a gambling coin game played with any desired denomination of coins. and quarters, this is a substantial win,'' Sternberg said. No, the couple didn't take home their winnings in the form of some 7,521,523 nickels - plus change. Instead, the couple will get the money in $19,000 annual increments over the next 20 years. They plan to use some of the the money to go on a cruise and pay off some credit cards, Kay Wildman said. The Wildmans have been visiting Las Vegas about three times a year since they were married 30 years ago. Kay Wildman likes playing the quarter slot machines and has been lucky in the past, once winning about $400, she said. But on Friday, her luck wasn't so hot, and by the end of the night she had lost about $200. About 12:30 a.m. Saturday, she told her husband to go on to bed. She would join him later after playing a while on the nickel machine. Buying $40 in nickels, she sat in front of one of the casino's eight Nickels Deluxe de·luxe also de luxe adj. Particularly elegant and luxurious; sumptuous: deluxe accommodations; a de luxe automobile. adv. machines - the one at the end of the row - and started pumping in her nickels. ``I spent $28 of the $40, I was there just about a half-hour and all of a sudden the lights started to go in a circle and this music started playing and the guy next to me said `Oh my God, you won the big one,' '' she said. She had no idea how much she had won until the man explained that she had been playing on a so-called progressive machine, one of about 300 across Nevada tied into a single pot that had a cumulative total of $374,076.77. ``I started crying, I turned around and there were five men in suits standing there,'' she said, recalling the hotel officials who met her at the machine. ``When the guy said how much I won I didn't believe it. When I saw the men, I believed it.'' Her husband said he got a call about 1:30 a.m. telling him of his wife's win and went down to the casino. ``People were standing around, my wife was jumping up and down,'' he said. While Jim Wildman concedes he's never profited much from his advice on playing the slots, his wife's success has him thinking about rewriting re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. and reissuing his book. ``It affirms it for me, I'll tell you,'' he said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color only in Conejo edition) Kay Wildman and her h usband, Jim, hold the payout pay·out n. 1. The act or an instance of paying out. 2. A percentage of corporate earnings that is paid as dividends to shareholders. from a win Saturday in nickel slots in Las Vegas. David Sprague/Daily News |
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