Microgaming’s Fish Party has paid out its highest jackpot to date, it has been announced, as three players picked up a split of a €317,849.78 jackpot, after a €20 buy in.
What happened?
Fish Party’s prize pool reached its highest amount yet on 17th October (2018) and just after midnight, the jackpot was hit, and the pot was shared across various online casinos.Two players at Casino Redkings and one at a Betsson group site brought home hefty cuts of the jackpot.The players took part in the 3-seater Sit & Tournament, which costs €20 to buy into, and the investment certainly paid off!
The split
A Redkings Player, SipsCommin, took the top prize, and landed themselves the lion’s share of the split, an impressive 158,924.89, while Check Norris, a player at Betsson Group, landed themselves a tidy €95,354.93. Third place went to grndonlck, another Redkings player, who took home a still perfectly reasonable €63,569.96!This massive jackpot payout takes the total jackpot payouts of the game to over €1.2 million across 22 payouts, nine of those being in 2018.https://youtu.be/–EQlGs6y4A
Three-handed battle
Speaking of the huge prize pool and the game that saw it won, Alex Scott, MD of Poker at Microgaming, said:“What an exciting three-handed battle this was, congratulations to the winners! Our unique Fish Party progressive jackpot SNG has now awarded over €1.2 million in jackpot prizes, a milestone we are very proud of. At this rate it won’t be long until we hit two million! I can’t wait to see who the next winners are.”While progressive slots from Microgaming are the games usually making the headlines, this is a reminder that there are also poker games that can offer life-changing sums of money if you happen to be in the right game at the right time!