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Partouche Megapot: Jackpot won in Annemasse Casino

The Partouche Megapot once again had a happy winner because on the 30th of May at exactly 4:10 PM a happy player walked away with the sum of 3,303,900 euros in Annemasse casino. This mega jackpot outdid the amount won by Marie-Helene, winner of the first Partouche megapot in the Palavas-les-Flots casino. One has to go back to the 6th of March 2009 when this cumulator jackpot was won by a winner who was much spoken about due to the fact that she didn't actually set off the slot machine rollers herself but the money inserted into the slot belonged to her. The story of Marie-Helene and Francis Sune preoccupied the media who reported widely on this saga worthy of a hollywood film and these two people who spoke to each other through their lawyers.

What is the Partouche Megapot?

The Partouche Megapot is 192 slot machines spread over the 42 Partouche group casinos and which are linked to eachother. These slot machines place part of the players bets into a communal pot. The  amount in the jackpot rises every few seconds as players in the four corners of France play. This Megapot is a marketing ploy of the Partouche group which is threading on the toes of the Francaise des jeux with its games of Loto and Euro Millions (to a lesser degree in comparison to the 126 million won by a 25 year old Spanish lady, editor's note). The Partouche Megapot is a way to attract players especially in these times of economic hardship. It must be said that the anti-tobacco laws and the checking of identities at the entrance to gaming rooms are responsible in part for the reduction in clientele in the group's casinos.

The Annemasse casino is once more in the spotlight, not for a robbery as was the case recently but for being the first European casino to write such a large cheque for a winner. There's a strong chance that the third person to win the Partouche Megapot cumulator jackpot will be a woman since the first two winners were women. As the saying goes “If it happens twice it'll happen a third time”. To be continued...

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