New Slots Millionaire

An 84-year-old slot machine player makes Atlantic City history.  While playing her luck on the casino nickel slots she hits a $10 million jackpot.  According to the casino operators this marks the largest prize in the city’s long gambling history.

Josephine Crawford is a Pennsylvania resident.  The Great-grandmother was a guest in Harrah’s casino, playing her luck on the 5 cent slot machines.  As she played her final $5 credit on the Megabucks machines, the slots game bursts into a show of lights and sound, broadcasting that Crawford had won $10,010,113.48.    

Christopher Jonic, casino spokesperson, recalls the event, “There were a whole lot of bells and whistles, and she had no idea, really, what had happened.”

Crawford received her check after both the Harrah’s casino staff and International Gaming Technology verified her victory.  International Gaming Technology owns the slot machines. 

Crawford can receive her winnings in one of two ways.  She can either accept the increments of a 25-year annuity or take the lumps sum which will be reduced to roughly $5.5 million after taxes are deducted.  

Candid Crawford expresses her thoughts on her winnings, “Somehow I’ll spend it.  I’m just happy I won it, for my family, although they don’t need it.”

Before Crawford, there has been no Megabucks slot machine winner for three years.  Megabucks draws upon the hundreds of slot machines stationed in Atlantic City’s twelve casinos.  The grand prize is accumulated from a small portion of each play.

Crawford has been playing slot machines at the Harrah’s casino since 1980.  The previous Atlantic City win record was won in August 1994, for the amount of $8.54 million.

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