US veteran bags 2nd mega jackpot
4th February, 2008
A former US Army airman is being called one of the luckiest men alive after winning the top Megabucks slot machine jackpot at an Ohio casino for the second time in his life.
At the ripe old age of 92 and with one multi-million dollar jackpot already under his belt many would have expected Elmer Sherwin to have retired from the casino gambling circuit, but he never gave up.
In 1989 he won $4.6 million (£2.3 million) from a Megabucks machine at Ohio's Mirage Casino and his latest jaunt to the state's Cannery Casino has now seen him bag an even bigger jackpot - $21.1 million.
"I'm glad I finally hit - I've been trying to do it again," the diehard gambler commented, before confirming that he will be going for a hat-trick.
And it's not the first, second or even third time he's courted with lady luck in his nearly century-long innings. Sherwin revealed how in the Second World War his crew was twice pulled from ill-fated bombing missions - both of which ended in catastrophic midair collisions - just minutes before they departed.
The odds of winning the Megabucks progressive jackpot even once are estimated to be one in ten million.
