Orville Erickson could hardly believe it but his wife, Dorothea, says she "just had a feeling" it might be a lucky weekend. Orville Erickson hit a $2.98 million jackpot on a nickel slot machine ...

Circus Circus has expanded on its status as the only Strip casino still offering coin-operated slot machines by installing $5 coin machines to go alongside its $1 machines. The slots are a throwback ...

At this week’s Global Gaming Expo, Steve Des Champs won’t be tied down to his company’s booth. United Coin Machine doesn’t have one. For the Nevada-based slot machine route operator, every day is the ...

Reporting from Las Vegas — Jeanette White gripped five quarters with dirt-stained fingers and plopped them into a boxy video poker machine named Fortune 1: Clang! Clang! Clangclangclang! The machine’s ...

This is the kind of return you’d love to get on every investment, right? Especially if you’re a fan of people hitting the jackpot on a nickel slot machine. We don’t know much about who pulled this off ...

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LAS VEGAS (KABC) -- There is no sweeter sound than hitting a jackpot on a coin slot machine. El Cortez Hotel and Casino is one of the last places in Las Vegas to still have original classic coin slot ...

For 84-year-old Josephine Crawford, the golden years just got a lot more golden. About to call it quits after a night playing slot machines at Harrah's Atlantic City casino, the widow from New Jersey ...

The energy on a casino floor is something Las Vegans know well: anxious players, flashing lights, ringing bells, bemused dealers and the communal celebration when a jackpot is hit. It’s palpable, ...