Just goes to show that a little bit of tenacity goes a long way. She played for 3 hours with less than 100 dollars before her big win of nearly 9 million dollars. Every time she visited Vegas, Nishimura played the same machine-her machine-at the Freemont Hotel, which she is said to have talked to in order to give her luck. $8.9 millionħ1-year-old Amy Nishimura won her jackpot while on vacation from her home in Hawaii.
This time around, he gave a lot of his money to charity, including the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Sixteen years later, he won 21 million dollars in the same jackpot. Even with the big win, Sherwin continued to play the slots once or twice a week in hopes of being the first, second-time winner. Elmer Sherwin, a World War II vet was 76 when he won a $4.6 million dollar Megabucks jackpot, a mere 10 hours after The Mirage opened to the public. It’s hard to fathom winning millions of dollars in a Las Vegas slot machine, but one man found himself in that position twice.
