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New resident hits for nearly $1M at North Las Vegas casino

Clint poses with a check after winning $935,176 at Aliante Hotel. (Aliante Hotel via Twitter)

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By Tony Garcia / Las Vegas Review-Journal

September 26, 2019 - 12:44 pm

Move to Las Vegas. Put in a few quarters in a slot machine. Win big.

You might have seen that in a few hundred sitcoms through the years. If you were at Aliante Hotel on Saturday night, you saw it there, too.

Clint, a new Southern Nevada resident, turned a visit to the movie theater into a $935,176 payday when he hit the jackpot on @IGTJackpots Wheel of Fortune® slots Saturday, Sept. 21!

He parlayed a $1.25 spin into the life-changing prize at 8:15 p.m. pic.twitter.com/TQlYaO95eI

— Aliante Casino (@aliantecasino) September 26, 2019

Visiting the movie theaters at the North Las Vegas casino, a new Southern Nevada resident hit a nearly $1 million jackpot on a 25-cent Wheel of Fortune machine.

Clint played $1.25 and won $935,176 around 8:15 p.m., according to an Aliante post on Twitter.

Contact Tony Garcia at tgarcia@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0307. Follow @TonyGLVNews on Twitter.

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