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OHIOAN WINS WHEEL OF FORTUNE AT IMPERIAL PALACE
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Thanksgiving vacationer hits quarter Megajackpot for $448,714.95
LAS VEGAS, NEV. -- Five spins of a Wheel of Fortune machine at the Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino and Jennifer Peculis was in shock: she had just won $448,714.95.
The 28-year-old Ohioan and her fiancé, Ben, had enjoyed a long Thanksgiving weekend at the Imperial Palace and had already checked out Monday morning. But their flight was not until late afternoon, so Peculis was trying her luck at a Wheel of Fortune Megajackpot quarter machine. She had already played two others before trying the third with $10. Less than five minutes later, she won the progressive jackpot on the most popular slot machine game of all time.
"I saw the first Wheel of Fortune symbol, then up came the second and by the time the third came up it was a blur," Peculis said. She was so excited, she didn’t even realize at first how much she had won.
Peculis said she plans to pay off her house, her car and student loans, "And still have a lot left over," she added.
The last quarter Wheel of Fortune Megajackpot at the Imperial Palace paid out more than $250,000 in June 2004. In September 2002, another quarter Wheel of Fortune Megajackpot paid out more than $671,000.