Statistically the machine is overdue to be hit according to Rick Sorensen, the spokesperson for the International Game Technology in Reno NV. The jackpot is currently just over 13 million dollars and beats the old record by nearly 2 million dollars. The 11 million dollar jackpot was won in the Golden Nugget in Vegas back in 2004.

No one can say exactly when someone will hit this jackpot, but someone is going to win it and it is going to be soon.

According to the spokesperson for the Hollywood Casino Bay, St Louis a Texas resident recently won $800,000 on a slot machine, and whenever someone wins a large jackpot the casino always goes crazy.

The Lucky winner of the $13 million will not have to wait long for their first payment, just a few hours. Before anyone can be paid anything the win must first be verified by the Mississippi Gaming Commission and the IGT.

The $1 dollar machine jackpot has gone up more then $100,000 in the last 2 weeks. The jackpot for the Wheel of Fortune penny machine is currently over $4,000,000 and $5 dollar machine is above $3,000,000

Back in March a player from Oklahoma player playing one of the 50 cent Wheel of Fortune games at the Capri Casino Biloxi won a jackpot of nearly $1,300,000

According to employees IGT the progressive machines bring in the most money in the casinos, and MegaJackpots has paid out more then $4.7 billion dollars in jackpots, and have created hundreds of millionaires.