Aristocrat Dragon Link Slot in California Mints New March Millionaire

  • A Burbank man spun $50 into a progressive jackpot of $1,339,477 on Sunday
  • The life-changing win came on an Aristocrat Dragon Link Peace & Long Life slot
  • Pechanga’s Dragon Link slots have paid out three $1m+ jackpots in a year
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A man won a progressive jackpot of $1.3m on a Dragon Link slot at Pechanga Casino in California. [Image: Shutterstock.com]

The pots of gold raining down on US casinos this March have potentially reached the rainbow’s end in California where one player won over $1m.

The month-ending jackpot came on Sunday at Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California, when a Burbank man spun a $50 wager into a progressive jackpot of $1,339,477.

The casino took to X to share that its newly minted millionaire’s life-changing jackpot came on one of its Aristocrat Gaming-manufactured Dragon Link Peace & Long Life slot machines:

According to trade media, Pechanga’s Dragon Link slots have cranked out three jackpots over $1m within the last 12 months. The first came in May 2025 when a Temecula player hit a $1m jackpot, only for another guest to play the exact same Dragon Link slot on March 13 and hit a $1,232,300 progressive jackpot.

Outside of California this month, two different Aristocrat slots paid out over $200k on one night to one player in Connecticut, while in Washington State another player hit a $154k jackpot on a Triple Fortune Dragon slot, followed by a duo’s $113k win on Sunday on a Wheel of Fortune slot, back in Connecticut. 

The latter two wins on International Game Technology-made slots comes as IGT celebrates the 30th anniversary of its Wheel of Fortune brand in May. With this news and major jackpots landing all across the US in March, a bumper springtime of big slots wins seems in the cards. 

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