By investing the price of three beers during happy hour, a student from Lille won a “historic jackpot” at the Lille casino. Having left his pockets heavy with tens of thousands of euros, the young man has plenty to please himself for the end-of-year celebrations.
If playing involves risks, it also sometimes holds nice surprises. During the night from Thursday to Friday, at the gaming tables of the Barrière casino in Lille, many punters looked for luck without finding it, having decided to take advantage of the karma of a group of students on the loose. The friends had decided to see if the grass was greener at blackjack rather than with the 20-cent one-armed bandits.
He wins more than 4,000 times his stake
The small group at the table bet ten euros per hand at the table and added five on the “progressive jackpot” option. The option can prove interesting since in the case of blackjack, the bettor logically wins one and a half times his stake and wins a jackpot topped up with part of the players’ bets.
It was around 11:30 p.m. when luck smiled on the students, offering them a blackjack that knocked out the dealer. At that time, the progressive jackpot prize pool was 71,231 euros, a nice jackpot which represents more than 4,000 times the stake.
However, the story does not say how much the team lost before breaking the bank but the casino assures that the bettor was “visibly delighted”. If this gain is the progressive jackpot record for blackjack in Lille, in Bordeaux, in 2022, a jackpot of 332,000 euros fell.