When you open a new player account online you hope to have fun and win some money but you certainly don't expect to win a lot of money or hit a big jackpot right way but one player did. Scott Robinson opened a new online account at William Hill to play online bingo.

Then just three hours later he was £17,000 richer. How did he get this landfall he was playing online slots, he won himself a slice of the big jackpot for just 20p per spin. He ended up winning £5,500 for every hour he had been a William Hill customer.

Scott won £17,807.12 out of the progressive jackpot on the "Pirates Plunder" slots game. This was one of 17 different mini games he had been trying out after he registered for his William Hill Bingo account.

William Hill's spokeswoman Jennie Prest said, "True to the Pirates Plunder game he was playing, Scott turned up suddenly and nicked our treasure! Such a big win for a new customer is terrific for Scott and for us, making over £17,000 in 3 hours is pretty good going."

Commenting on his win Scott said, "I can't believe it really, and it all seemed to happen so fast, I'd sat down and was enjoying trying out the games on the William Hill site and now I've won £17,000! I'm delighted, I think I'll use some of the money to take my staff for a couple of good nights out, or may be even take them away for a few days, as in the pub game they all work so hard."




- 2008-07-14