Georgia woman wins $528K 'Games of Thrones' jackpot at Beau Rivage | Biloxi Sun Herald

A Georgia woman is South Mississippi's latest jackpot winner, hitting for $528,047.23 at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi.

Sarah Minix of Grantville, Ga., was playing the Game of Thrones progressive Monday at 2:07 a.m. when she hit the jackpot. She was playing a penny progressive slot machine.

In the last seven months, she is the second person to win a jackpot at the Beau Rivage and the second person from Georgia to go home a big winner.

In addition to Minix, recent winners of jackpots of half a million dollars or more at casinos in South Mississippi are:

-- In March, Hoang N. of Pascagoula won a $530,897 jackpot at IP casino playing The Walking Dead

-- In February, Lance T. of Georgia won a $616,118 jackpot at IP Casino playing Willy Wonka slot machine

-- In October, Matthew Manger of Sarasota, Fla., won $501,244 at Beau Rivage Casino playing Tarzan

-- In October, Evelyn H. of Milton, Florida, won a $1,519,819 jackpot at IP Casino playing Wheel of Fortune