MegaBucks player wins $11M jackpot on Las Vegas Strip

A MegaBucks players won a jackpot worth more than $11 million on Saturday, May, 5, 2018, at Paris Las Vegas. (Patrick Connolly/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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By Rio Lacanlale / Las Vegas Review-Journal

May 6, 2018 - 9:37 am

A MegaBucks player won more than $11 million Saturday night at a Las Vegas Strip resort.

IGT Jackpots, which operates MegaBucks, announced shortly after 11:20 p.m. Saturday that an unidentified player won $11,183,715.84 at Paris Las Vegas.

A request for comment Sunday morning to Caesars Entertainment Corp., who owns Paris Las Vegas, was not immediately returned.

Further details were not available Sunday.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Contact Rio Lacanlale at rlacanlale@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0381. Follow @riolacanlale on Twitter.

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