Win a Day Awards 200k!

One lucky player is $200,000 richer after winning a progressive jackpot at Win a Day (www.winaday.com).

The winning game was Jack’s Show, a video poker game.

The player, who uses the pseudonym “Lucky Tom”, won $200,859, the second highest win of any player at WinADay.com. The previous winner took home $223,420 in March, when he played the site’s Reel De Luxe game.

Jack’s Show features magic from animated jesters who jostle on the screen before dealing cards. The jesters perform tricks when winning hands come up. Competitors can wager on their hands and the object is to get the best poker hand.

“Lucky Tom” is a film student who said he was looking to blow off steam when he logged onto WinADay.com.

“I was just killing time and taking my mind off my studies for a bit when suddenly out of the blue I hit the big one,” he said. The winner said he might “blow” some of the money on parties to celebrate his win, but will most likely invest the bulk of the money into “a film project I’ve wanted to do for a long time.”

The jackpot was a progressive one, said Michael Hilary, the casino manager for Win A Day.

“We’ve added several new casino games recently so the casino has been even busier than usual,” he said. “Many of our regular players knew we were a bit overdue for a big win so more of them have been placing maximum bets and going for the online slot machine jackpot. Every time they do, part of their wager goes into the jackpot pool so it had been accumulating even faster than usual.”