Net Entertainment AB is a major provider of gambling software and the company has released information concerning the biggest ever slot won online. The game was Mega Fortune which is a progressive jackpot five reel 25-payline slot.

The precise sum that was won was €11,736,228 and the winner as from Hordaland in Norway. This very fortunate Norwegian is just 20 years old and he was playing the slot at the Betsson website

Bjorn Krantz, the head of Net Entertainment AB congratulated who he described as yet another multimillionaire the firm has made possible. This is the world record in the whole history of online jackpot wins.

He went on to acknowledge that Mega Fortune has a very high interest for online players and he said that he was always very pleased to see how quickly that this game and similar progressive jackpots accumulate huge jackpot prizes adding “Our focus on portfolio and operational excellence stays firm and our commitment to provide our licensees with the most exciting games to maximise player experience is on top of our agenda.”

You can play Mega Fortune at numerous casinos that run Net Entertainment software. The game was released in January 2009 and the largest payout before this one was for €6.3 million. The first huge win came just 10 months after its launch and that was for €3.99 million. Last October another player won €4 million and there have been three other large wins totalling €8 million. The largest ever win on this game by a female player was last February. She was playing in Sweden and won €5.3 million.

From the point of view of the online casinos, large jackpot wins are great traffic drivers and the most successful traffic driver of all is Mega Fortune. At the time of writing this article the Mega Fortune jackpot had clocked up almost €1.5 million so yet another millionaire will be created soon.