A good end to the trip
An IGT Whitney Houston-themed slot machine has hit the high note for a first-time visitor to Las Vegas.
a $599,015 jackpot on the IGT machine
According to reports, the North Carolina woman, referred to as only Camy M, won a $599,015 jackpot on the IGT machine on Tuesday night.
Camy was playing Whitney Houston Slots at the off-Strip Palms Casino Resort, which on Wednesday took to X with news of the North Carolinian’s debut Vegas win:
According to a Palms press release, Camy was about to catch a plane home “when she decided to take one last spin on the slot located near the Serrano Vista Café.”
A $5 bet at a one cent denomination turned Camy’s last-minute decision into a six-figure win that will live long in her memory.
Slot with a twist
According to the release from Palms, the Whitney Houston slot machine was linked to an International Wide Area Progressive “making it one of the most exciting games on the floor at Palms.”
Slot playing influencer Brian Christopher’s Flip the Switch website states the WAP machines “can be linked in a single area, across an entire state, and at times even beyond.”
IGT will be paying out on Camy’s win
Flip the Switch added WAPs are operated by the machine’s manufacturers and not casinos, meaning IGT will be paying out on Camy’s win, not Palms.
Big win slots
WAPs, like Camy discovered, pay out larger sums than progressive slots offered by casinos, with it not unusual for the machines to give players six- or even seven-figure wins.
The Whitney Houston win on the IGT machine, however, is shaded by bigger wins for two rival slot machine brands at The Fontainebleau in Las Vegas. In May, a Frankenstein slot powered by Light & Wonder netted one Californian man $2.4m, with an Aristocrat Gaming-made Dragon Link slot winning another $1.3m at the same casino.
