The jackpot of $47,852 came on December 29, 1999 to Jose from Brazil. Who is the man calling himself 2CRK3?

As manager of the sales division for a large airline, I often come home stressed from days of appeasing angry customers. Lately, however, I have found that an occasional visit to the world of virtual gambling relaxes me quite a bit. One evening I switched on to Slotland and began pulling down slots as usual. (My wife had gone to bed angry and I needed to get away from family problems.) Nothing much out of the ordinary happened in the beginning, I was winning and losing negligeable amounts. After about 30 minutes came my lucky pull. I brought down 500 dollars. I sat there a minute and thought about stopping ... "Should I go on, or should I take what I have and be happy?" That's when I decided to throw caution to the wind. I'm responsible 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. I just put the whole wad into the machine and on my tenth try -- BINGO! almost 50,000 dollars! I couldn't believe it. I was dancing around my computer and smiling with joy -- I couldn't shout for fear I'd wake my wife and daughter. But really this money was the best thing that could have happened to me, I took the money and bought a new necklace for my wife and a small bicycle for our daughter. You wouldn't believe the expressions on their faces. My wife was, of course, suspicious about where the money came from. But rather than elaborate on my interest in cyber-gambling, I simply told her that I got a bonus at work :-) Many thanks Slotland!

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