Hawaii visitor lands $446,083 Pai Gow jackpot in Las Vegas
A visitor from Hawaii has turned a $1 side bet into a $446,083 jackpot after landing a rare seven-card straight flush while playing Fortune Pai Gow Poker at Fremont Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
The life-changing win came on Friday, July 10, when the player placed a $1 progressive side bet on Light & Wonder’s Fortune Pai Gow Poker table game. They were dealt a seven-card straight flush in clubs — ace, king, queen, jack, 10, a wild-card joker and an eight — to trigger the progressive jackpot worth $446,083.
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Fortune Pai Gow Poker features an optional bonus wager that rewards players based on the strength of their best seven-card hand. Players who wager at least $5 on the Fortune bet also become eligible for Envy Bonus payouts when another player at the table is dealt four of a kind or better.
The jackpot was won at the Fremont Hotel and Casino, one of downtown Las Vegas’ most recognisable gambling venues. Located on the famous Fremont Street Experience, the property has been a fixture of the city’s casino scene for almost 70 years and features a 43,000-square-foot casino with 21 table games and more than 700 slot machines. Fremont is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming, one of the largest casino operators in the United States, with a portfolio spanning 27 gaming properties across 11 states.
Light & Wonder’s Fortune Pai Gow Poker is one of the company’s most popular linked progressive table game products. Light & Wonder is one of the world’s biggest gaming suppliers, providing slot machines, table games and casino systems to land-based venues across North America while also supplying content and technology to regulated online casino operators worldwide.
