An ‘extraordinary moment’ at the blackjack table pays off at MS Coast casino
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- A $144,563 jackpot hit June 13 at Scarlet Pearl on a Blackjack Blazing 7s table.
- Gulf Coast casinos in 2025 have seen nine jackpots over $100K totaling $1.88M.
- Four of this year’s nine big wins came from table games or video poker machines.
The ninth jackpot of the year hit at a Coast casino and it wasn’t on a slot machine.
“Precision. Poise. A little Pearl luck,” is how at Scarlet Pearl Casio Resort in D’Iberville described the win on June 13.
An unidentified player from Millry, Alabama was playing at the Blackjack Blazing 7s table and won $144,563.
The Scarlet Pearl Facebook post called it “another extraordinary moment” at the casino. Additional details weren’t available.
This is the second jackpot of more than $100,000 this year at Scarlet Pearl and comes less than a month after an unidentified winner playing in the high-limits Orchid Room on May 15 bet $12.50 and won $112,098.
How lucky is 2025?
The nine jackpots of $100,000 or more this year hit at five separate Biloxi area casinos.
That’s slightly ahead of the 2024 pace by number of wins, but behind last year at this time for amount won.
Here are some comparisons:
▪ For the first six moths of 2025, Coast casinos have 9 wins for a total of $1.88 million.
▪ In 2024, the Coast casinos saw 17 wins over $100,000, for a total of $5.95 million.
▪ Last year five players won their jackpot on poker or other table games instead of slots.
▪ So far this year, four of the nine wins were on video poker or table games rather than traditional slot games.
Other jackpots by amount
These eight other players also hit for $100,000 or more this year:
$402,411 —Won May 9 by Santigo S. (no last name provided) at Golden Nugget Casino Biloxi. He played blackjack for about an hour and 20 minutes when he hit the jackpot on a side bet on the casino’s 21+3 Blackjack Progressive game.
$300,000 — Won Feb. 15 by a player from Birmingham, Alabama, at Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi on a 2-credit bet. It was a 2-credit bet on the same $100 denomination Triple Double Stars slot machine that hit a jackpot on Feb. 12.
$270,000 — Won Jan. 22 at Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi during a rare snowstorm. A South Carolina player was playing a $100 Triple Double Stars slot machine and won on a $200 bet.
$150,000 — Won Feb. 12 by a player from Gulfport at Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi playing a $100 denomination Triple Double Stars machine with a 1-credit bet.
$150,000 — Won March 21 at Hard Rock Casino Biloxi. The unidentified player from Georgia was playing Triple Triple Bonus video poker game when, just minutes apart, she won $100,000 and $50,000.
$142,551 — Won March 7 by Shawn (no last name provided), of Mobile, Ala, at Palace Casino Resort in Biloxi while playing the Lightning Buffalo Link slot machine.
$112,098 — Won May 15 by an unidentified player in Scarlet Pearl’s high-limits Orchid Room on an Aristocrat Lightning Cash machine and a 50-cent demon. The player bet $12.50.
$100,000 — Won March 6 by an unidentified player from Kentucky at Hard Rock Casino Biloxi. He was playing a Game King video poker machine, betting $125 per spin on the $25 Triple Double Bonus Poke.
This story was originally published June 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM.
