Bwin Consumer Brands: bwin Casino Player Lands Massive $1,917,474 Mobile Jackpot Win

A 29 year old bwin casino player beat the odds this week when he won a life changing mobile slots jackpot - $1,917,474.66 (€1,405,669) - on the Melon Madness slot with a €16 bet from his iPhone.

The winner landed the ‘Big One’ playing on his phone at bwin’s http://bwin.com/casino mobile site. Reacting to his win, he said "I was at home when I hit the jackpot. It felt great! I can’t believe how lucky I am!”.

To put the win into perspective, here’s what the player could buy with $1.9 million:-

· 63,915 football shirts

· 7,490 pairs of the new Adidas Predator LZ football boot as worn by Arsenal’s new German signing Mesut Ozil

· One Bugatti Veyron super car as driven by Chelsea’s Samual Eto’o

· 1.4% of  Gareth Bale, the world’s most expensive footballer, recently purchased from Tottenham Hotspur by Real Madrid for €100 Million

· 2,954 iPhone 5s’ as used in the winning bet

· Or 678,574 honeydew melons – that is melon madness!

Commenting on the win, bwin’s Director of Games Golan Shaked said:

"We are delighted one of our players has hit such an amazing jackpot of nearly $2 million from a mobile phone. We are focusing a huge amount of time and energy on building the best mobile casino available and it is great to see our players enjoying, and winning, on our games”

bwin’s mobile casino (https://casino.bwin.com/mobile/mobilecasino) and bwin.com parent site http://bwin.com. bwin casino pays out some of the biggest jackpots online. ‘The Big One Colossal Cash’ jackpot has been instantly replenished and can be won by playing Melon Madness and other premium slot games such as Going Nuts, Snow Business and Loot’EnKhamun. The jackpot is already at more than £1 million, and growing by the second.

Other great games that can be enjoyed at http://bwin.com/casino include Aztec Gold, Mega Fortune Wheel and traditional casino favourites blackjack and roulette with more games being added all the time.

About bwin

bwin is the leading sports betting brand of bwin.party digital entertainment plc (LSE: BPTY), a global online gaming company. The Company was formed from the merger of bwin Interactive Entertainment AG and PartyGaming Plc on 31 March 2011.  Incorporated, licensed and regulated in Gibraltar, the Group also has licences in Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain and Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. With offices in Europe, India, Israel and the US, the Group generated total pro forma revenue of €801.6m and pro forma Clean EBITDA of €164.9m in 2012.  bwin.party commands leading market positions in each of its four key product verticals: online sports betting, poker, casino and bingo with some of the world’s biggest online gaming brands including bwin (http://www.bwin.com/), partypoker (http://www.partypoker.com/), PartyCasino (http://www.partycasino.com/) and Foxy Bingo (http://www.foxybingo.com/)

The Group’s scale, technology and strong portfolio of games collectively differentiate its customer offer from those of its competitors. bwin.party is a constituent member of the FTSE 250 Index and the FTSE4Good Index Series, which identifies companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards. For more information about bwin.party, visit: www.bwinparty.com.

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