Man scoops £570k on online casino site, then donates winnings to charity

[Casinorep]

The lucky punter is the second person to win huge in the last two months, after another Swede bagged the LeoVegas £4.4million Mega Fortune jackpot in February. Full story here

[FictionNet]

The lucky punter is the second person to win huge in the last two months, after another Swede bagged the LeoVegas £4.4million Mega Fortune jackpot in February. Full story here

Looks like a paid editorial to me, but still a decent win.

[sweetbet]

He won the money just four days before his birthday. What an awesome birthday present!!

[Muppet]

Its definitely a paid article. Good work from their PR people. Its a stereotypical misleading headline though. If you read it and thought he's donating the lot, don't get sucked in to reading the article (like me!).

[RacingJim]

Definitely stinks of 'paid editorial'. I didn't think Daily Mirror would be that desperate to do things like this really, surely breaking a few Google guidelines there if they care for such things.

[pinkytoe]

The fact that there are affiliate links in the post should be enough to tell you what it is!

[JackTenSuited]

I emailed The Mirror asking for a rate card, they seem very clued up on Affiliate marketing and it seems they prefer to do editorials where they get a cut of commission too.

[muffincrumbs]

Bad form. At this point why doesn't the mirror just go ahead and put a nice big menu heading "Online Casinos" and take it from there.

[Triple7]

Looks like a paid editorial to me, but still a decent win.

Yep, also the affiliate link in the article...

[Casinorep]

Good call.. Didn't even noticed that until you guys pointed it out.

[Roulette Zeitung]

The exact sum he won is £570,407, and a player from Sweden more likely will play with Euro instead of Swedish Kronor.
As is so often the case in life, chance plays a crucial role.
£570,407 are nearly exact 800.000 Euro.
A nice round sum for the right moment to hit the jackpot.
Isn't it?
What a pity, that the player remain anonymous, and that I am too stupid to find the £570,407 "Siberian Storm" jackpot on JackpotGraphs (http://www.jackpotgraphs.com).

Leopold

[Muppet]

Its the shared IGT Megajackpots one. It can be won on a few different games including Siberian Storm, Cluedo and Cleopatra.

http://www.casinolistings.com/jackpo...ts-progressive

[Roulette Zeitung]

The exact sum he won is £570,407, and a player from Sweden more likely will play with Euro instead of Swedish Kronor.
As is so often the case in life, chance plays a crucial role.
£570,407 are nearly exact 800.000 Euro.
A nice round sum for the right moment to hit the jackpot.
Isn't it?
What a pity, that the player remain anonymous, and that I am too stupid to find the £570,407 "Siberian Storm" jackpot on JackpotGraphs (http://www.jackpotgraphs.com).

Leopold

Its the shared IGT Megajackpots one. It can be won on a few different games including Siberian Storm, Cluedo and Cleopatra.

http://www.casinolistings.com/jackpo...ts-progressive

If this is true, why the "Lucky Sweden hit" is not listed, and why the jackpot sum raised in the meantime up to £925,819?
Last hit: 469 days, 6 hrs ago!



Source: http://www.jackpotgraphs.com/igt-jackpots.html

Someone is sleeping with updates or something is weird.
No other possibilities.

I have seen so many fake stuff the last decade in this industry, that I learned to ask as long as there is an answer to open questions.

Leopold

[Muppet]

I double checked against the live value in Cleopatra at Mr Green 5 minutes ago and the current value on Casino Listings matches, so we have the right info and the one you have there is wrong. I know we had to update our IGT feed reader in the middle of March as the old URL we had stopped working. I guess that the owner of the Jackpot Graphs site has not updated their feed and so has stale data.

[alldog]

Yep, also the affiliate link in the article...

Will probably fool a lot of people though

[-Shay-]

The title of this thread is deceptive and misleading...

#justsayin

[Gamblogger]

It's clearly labelled "Advertorial" so I don't see a problem. Probably cost them a fortune but they'll probably get a good return

[Triple7]

It's clearly labelled "Advertorial" so I don't see a problem. Probably cost them a fortune but they'll probably get a good return

Most people don't even read that. I guess we'll see this more. This are the stories people want to read: people playing some cents, winning big prizes and setting up their own businesses...