2017-03-21
10 Fun Facts about Vegas
Here are some of our favourites.
1. Who hasn’t dreamed of going to Vegas and leaving a millionaire? The luckiest winner of all time has to be Elmer Sherwin, who at the age of 76 won a Megabucks jackpot of $4.6 million on very first day the Mirage Hotel opened in 1989. Sherwin decided he wanted to beat the odds of becoming a second jackpot winner and carried on playing the machines once or twice a week – or maybe he just wanted to justify a gambling addiction… Regardless, 16 years later he won $21 million, at the age of 92, this time giving most of the proceeds to charity. Sherwin was aiming to win a third time when he died three years later.
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