The third largest Megabucks jackpot in history hits at Bellys Las Vegas resort. Heundl, a 74-year-old retired printer from Covina, California won over 22 million dollars on her way to breakfast. She received a birthday present of 2-nights stay and 100 dollars play money as a loyal Bellys customer. She had already spent these 100 dollars and was on her way to breakfast, but suddenly decided to place another 100 dollars in the game. She started playing 2 dollars machines and then went to 1 dollar three-reel Megabucks progressive carousel. She still had 23 dollars in the machine when three Megabucks symbols lined up on the center line. Heundl did not even realize that she won 22 million, until amazed people started to gather around congratulating her.

Megabucks jackpots are normally paid in 25 annual installments, and Haundl has already received the first 907,799 dollars check. Started in 1986, Megabucks has already hit 57 times in different Nevada casinos paying 382 million dollars in total. The largest ever jackpot of 34.9 million dollars was won in 2000 at The Desert Inn. The second one was 27.5 million jackpot won at Palace Station in 1998, and the third one was won by Heundl at Bellys. Megabucks is one of 20 MegaJackpots systems operated by IGT, the world leader in the manufacturing of gaming machines and proprietary software for progressive gaming systems.

Bellys is a popular Las Vegas resort with two 26-story hotel towers, 2,814 guest rooms, 70,000 square feet of casino space, 180,000 square feet of convention and meeting space, 11 restaurants, 22 retail stores and more. It is owned and operated by Park Place Entertainment Corporation, the largest gaming company in the world that owns, manages or has an interest in 28 gaming properties registered under Ballys, Caesars, Flamingo,, Hiltom, Grand Casino and Paris brands and including a total of 28,000 hotel rooms, two million square feet of casino space and 55,000 employees.