Dragon Link Jackpot Pays $1.9M at Resorts World

The winning machine was Dragon Link, specifically the "Happy and Prosperous" theme, one of nine games in the Dragon Link family made by the Australian manufacturer Aristocrat. These machines run on a shared progressive jackpot that climbs across a bank of games until someone lands the bonus round that triggers it, which is why the payout can swing well past a million dollars if it has been building for a while.

Resorts World told Casino.org the win "adds to the excitement at Resorts World Las Vegas, which celebrated multimillion-dollar Megabucks jackpots earlier this year, continuing an impressive stretch of major wins on the casino floor." Dragon Link machines have been on a run beyond Nevada too, with million dollar plus hits reported recently in Florida and Connecticut.

The Review-Journal's report rolled this jackpot into a wider tally of payouts across the valley in late July and early August. A visitor from Oklahoma hit a royal flush on an Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em table at Circa downtown for $455,519. Smaller wins, mostly in the five figure range, landed at Binion's, Cadence Crossing, Durango, El Cortez, Four Queens, Golden Gate, Palms, Sam's Town, South Point and Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.

That spread matters if you are deciding where to play. Big progressive hits are not confined to one resort or one part of the valley right now, they are showing up on the Strip, downtown and off-Strip alike.

Dragon Link cabinets are everywhere in Vegas, not just at Resorts World, and the $25 denomination this jackpot hit at is on the higher end of what most visitors play. You do not need to bet $250 a spin to win on these machines, smaller bets hit the bonus round too, just for smaller shares of the progressive. If you are drawn to Dragon Link specifically, Resorts World is a reasonable stop, the property has now had multiple headline-grabbing jackpots this year on top of this one.

Either way, treat a win like this for what it is, a reminder that the progressive meter on machines like this can get large enough to be life changing, not a signal that any one machine or casino is due.