The Mystic Gambler 
This festive period will be one to remember for a large group of lotto players from a small village in Belgium after their syndicated play won the EuroMillions jackpot of €143 million ($150.7 million).
A group of 165 people from Olmen, in the Antwerp province, won the EuroMillions jackpot from the Tuesday draw after paying €15 ($15.8) each into a pot to buy tickets at their local newspaper store. The collective win made each of the lucky winners
Dajo Grandberry likely believed there was no situation worse than winning a slot machine jackpot but being unable to keep it due to a debt to the government. After having someone else attempt to collect it for him, he has since come to the conclusion that being imprisoned is far worse.
An Oregon man won $377,136 over the weekend while playing Three Card Poker at The Cromwell, a boutique hotel casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
The winning royal flush hand at The Cromwell,
This past Saturday, a gambler in Chile visited a nearby casino and came away with an early Christmas present. Everyone who plays the slots has the desire to win big, even if it is only in their subconscious, and this 50-year-old surely woman did.
It happened at the Enjoy Casino in Chile’s Via del Mar.
On a slot machine this past Sunday, a woman from Alabama won more than $1 million. On the Gulf Coast in Biloxi, Mississippi, at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino, she was performing.
Pictured above is the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in
This past Saturday, a lottery player scored the NZD24 million (US$15 million) Lotto Powerball draw in New Zealand Lottery. It’s one of that lottery’s biggest scores and the 17th instant millionaire the country has produced through the lottery this year.
Lotto players in New Zealand are checking to see if they hold a winning ticket. Someone won $15 million this past Saturday, one of the largest prizes of the year.
One lucky player recently won over $1 million on a slot machine at Texas’s Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino Hotel. It was on an Asian-themed Dancing Drums Explosion.
The specific jackpot was $1,016,715.91, according to KENS, a Texas TV station. Details were not released.