Vegas Matt & Friends Won $1,000,000 on One Slot | The Week in Gambling

Narrator: Tonight, on The Week in Gambling: a million dollars on one slot, a Grand jackpot, and Penny's hints. Narrator: Jack's Gut Call, from the thumbnails alone: Lady Luck HQ. Jack: What happens in Vegas... Penny: ...ends up on your W-2G. Both: Win it. Log it. W2gMatch it. Jack: Two weeks of gambling. Jack: A million dollars on one slot. Penny: At twenty-five hundred a spin. Narrator: Previously: Jack said he broke even. Tonight, three a.m. The desk that prints statements is closed. Jack says that proves his point. Narrator: Story one. Vegas Matt and Friends: We Won a Million Dollars Playing a Slot Machine. Narrator: They sat down with a quarter million in cash, at twenty-five hundred a spin. Vegas Matt himself was in Hawaii, pretending to relax. Narrator: A hundred and twenty-five thousand came early. Then a bonus opened with a hundred-thousand-dollar mini. Narrator: By the end of the day, the title says the rest: a million dollars on one slot. Jack: A million on one machine. Jack: I'd frame it. Penny: The casino already filed it. Jack: Still with us? Jack: Hit like. It makes my night. Penny: Subscribe for Fridays. Penny: Ask us anything below. Narrator: Story two. NG Slot: I Hit the Grand Jackpot. Narrator: First, three handpays in a row: twenty-seven fifty, three thousand, and twenty-five hundred. Narrator: Then the Grand, on the Double Play bonus: five hundred sixteen thousand dollars. The Major followed, at fifty-eight thousand. Jack: Three handpays, then the Grand. Jack: Half a million. Penny: That's a stack of W-2Gs. Jack: Lucky machine. Penny: Busy machine. Narrator: Story three. Cowboy Slots, on Miners Dream, a new version of Mystery of the Lamp, at eighty dollars a spin. Narrator: One spin lit all three lanterns: Ignite, Jackpot and Double. The Maxi jackpot landed inside the bonus. Narrator: It ended in a handpay: eighteen thousand, two hundred forty dollars. Jack: Three lanterns, eighteen grand. Penny: "I love a lantern." Penny: You love a handpay. Narrator: The rest of the two weeks, in a minute. Vegas Matt went double or nothing on fifteen thousand at blackjack, and played five hundred a spin for revenge after losing twenty thousand. Narrator: Lady Luck HQ finally hit the rare five-symbol bonus on Phoenix Link. Bluff rode craps, blackjack and slots to a ninety-seven-fifty bonus for Tipping Tuesday. Narrator: Mr. Hand Pay landed every bonus on Vegas' biggest mega jackpot slot. Brian Christopher took a million dollars to the slots, live at Foxwoods. WillyPlay won over ten thousand at eight dollars a spin. Narrator: Slot Queen unlocked everything on the new Cleopatra. Low Budget High Limit found a full bonus someone left behind. Stacey checked out the Cowboys and WinStar team-up. The Jackpot Gents slammed a royal flush. Narrator: Gamble Smart counted five ways casinos keep you playing. PokerNews covered a superuser scandal. Circles Off talked A.I. for sports betting, and Unabated, the good side of it. Jack: Romel's lucky charm went missing. Jack: The police brought it back. Penny: Better records than most people. Narrator: The board: wins and losses, as the creators' own videos tell them. Narrator: Jack's gut: zero for one. Penny: not surprised. Narrator: Machine of the Week. Penny's review: Miners Dream. A new coat on an old lamp. Lit all three lanterns once, then wanted applause. Three and a half stars. Narrator: Three takeaways from two weeks of sessions. A million-dollar day starts with a bankroll most players never bring. High-limit machines can tease for a long time, and drain fast. And nearly every big night here had a rough stretch first. Jack: I just say my night. Jack: Free on every account. Penny: At tax time, the assistant reconciles it. Narrator: Say it. Snap it. Hand it off. W2gMatch dot com, slash session tracker. Jack: Set your number first. Penny: Card in. Penny: Write the night down. Jack: That's why we listen to her. Narrator: Penny's hints for players. Set your number before the first spin, and stop there. Card in every time. Write the night down before bed: where, what game, in and out. Narrator: Know the line: a slot handpay of two thousand dollars or more comes with a W-2G. And ask for your win-loss statement before the year closes. Narrator: In Washington, the bill to restore the full gambling-loss deduction still waits for a House floor vote. For this year, ninety percent stands. Extension returns were due October fifteenth. Penny: The statement only counts carded play. Jack: Then I have a card somewhere. Penny: Somewhere. Narrator: Next Friday: Jack finds his players card. Cards. Narrator: The Week in Gambling. Every Friday, three p.m. Eastern. Questions in the comments: Penny answers. Jack tries. Narrator (end card): Like, subscribe, and ask Jack or Penny in the comments.