An anonymous guest at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas walked away with $1,916,491 on Friday, cashing in on a $5 side bet and a spade royal flush that most gamblers only dream about. The win landed on Friday the 13th, a date that for this particular high roller turned out to be anything but unlucky.
The guest was playing Three Card Poker when they were dealt the spade royal flush, which according to KLAS 8 News Now activated the mega tier of the resort's Millionaire Progressive jackpot. By placing a $5 side bet before the hand, the guest had made themselves eligible for that top payout tier, the station reports. A separate account from The Nevada Globe confirms the $1,916,491 figure but notes that neither the winner's name nor their hometown was released.
The Millionaire Progressive isn't limited to Three Card Poker. The same jackpot pool runs across multiple table games on the casino floors of The Venetian and its sister property, The Palazzo, including Ultimate Texas Hold'em, Crazy 4 Poker and Mississippi Stud, per the station's report. Any of those games can theoretically produce the kind of life-changing hand that hit this past Friday.
A Jackpot With an Eight-Year History
The Millionaire Progressive was established in 2018, and this latest win pushed its tally to 19 millionaires created since the jackpot's inception, according to the same account. That number has crept upward in the program's recent coverage — earlier reporting from news3lv.com had put the total at 16 millionaires, and before that, 15, reflecting how often the jackpot has been hitting on the Strip lately.
Friday's win is only the latest in a string of notable payouts tied to the progressive. In February, New York resident Nicholas Dandrea won $1,661,451 at The Venetian while also playing Three Card Poker, as reported by news3lv.com. And a Los Angeles guest identified only as George reportedly won $2,235,550 on a July 12 Ultimate Texas Hold'em hand, also triggered by a spade royal flush, though the year of that win isn't specified in the station's coverage.
Bigger Wins Still Loom on the Strip
The November jackpot isn't even the largest the resort has handed out recently. On Nov. 5, 2025, an anonymous guest won $3,845,727 playing Ultimate Texas Hold'em at The Venetian, a sum a casino spokesperson described to the Las Vegas Review-Journal as the largest table-games jackpot ever paid out at the resort. Just months before this latest Three Card Poker win, another Venetian guest turned a $5 Pai Gow poker bet into more than $630,000, the station's report notes.
Together, the wins paint a picture of a progressive jackpot that keeps minting new millionaires on the Strip, one $5 side bet at a time. For now, the identity of the latest guest to join that list remains unknown, with neither The Venetian nor the reporting outlets releasing further details.
