1.2 Million dollar win on VP machine

A California guest won $1.2 million at Resorts World Las Vegas last night after hitting three Royal Flushes on a video poker machine, resort officials said today. The visitor was playing a $5 Double Super Times Pay Poker machine when they placed a $105 spin and landed the winning combination, officials said. The hand was boosted by a 20x multiplier, resulting in the seven-figure payout.

The news announcement didn't identify the winner. The win adds to what has been an active year for jackpots at the property. Resorts World Las Vegas celebrated a Megabucks jackpot win just last month.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/dec/15/guest-turns-105-video-poker-bet-into-12-million-at

$1.2M:


$105/spin and he had $17k left in the machine.
I'm assuming he got a ticket at the cage instead of popping in $100s to load the machine?

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A California guest won $1.2 million at Resorts World Las Vegas last night after hitting three Royal Flushes on a video poker machine, resort officials said today. The visitor was playing a $5 Double Super Times Pay Poker machine when they placed a $105 spin and landed the winning combination, officials said. The hand was boosted by a 20x multiplier, resulting in the seven-figure payout.

The news announcement didn't identify the winner. The win adds to what has been an active year for jackpots at the property. Resorts World Las Vegas celebrated a Megabucks jackpot win just last month.
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In my educated guess, they didn't identify the winner in order to protect his or her identity. 😀💡🤔 With a 1.2 million dollar winner being identified a LOT of people will come out of the woodwork to ask for some of that money. 😱😳 A guy said that his Cousin won $500,000 on a lottery ticket.... And had a LOT of family knocking on his door every day begging him for money! 😱😳 So in the case of the 1.2 million dollar winner they decided to protect the winner by not identifying them. 😀💡😱

Nice to see the RTP boost in action.
DSTP can be brutal, especially on the even money two pair games.

I don't play DSTP so not sure how the multiplier pops up, looking at the picture is there a way to tell if the RF was dealt?

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I don't play DSTP so not sure how the multiplier pops up, looking at the picture is there a way to tell if the RF was dealt?
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Yes - look at the bottom hand; all five cards are marked "held"

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I don't play DSTP so not sure how the multiplier pops up, looking at the picture is there a way to tell if the RF was dealt?
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There is a special feature in DSTP that if a natural royal is dealt, and a random multiplier is triggered, both multipliers are awarded at maximum value, for a 20x total.

What was going through my mind was did this person draw 4 (3, 2, 1, 0) card(s) to the royal and on the redraw get the 1 (2, 3, 4, 5) needed card(s) to complete the Royal in all three hands - which would mean getting the same card(s) three times on a redraw.

I see there is also a follow up reply that explains the multiplier part - thank you to both repliers for helping me understand this amazing VP event.