{"id":288458,"date":"2026-04-27T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:45:11","slug":"man-wins-340k-jackpot-at-hard-rock-casino-tejon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288458\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wins $340K jackpot at Hard Rock Casino Tejon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Southern California man won a $340,000 jackpot Saturday at Hard Rock Casino Tejon in Kern County, according to casino officials.<\/p>\n<p>The winner, William Wenger of Canyon Country, hit the jackpot on April 25 at the casino in Mettler.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"William Wenger at Hard Rock Casino Tejon{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f15c56fd-c37f-4625-92a9-c5781f82ce51-340kwinnerwilliamw..jpg\"\/>William Wenger at Hard Rock Casino Tejon<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the win is among several large jackpots recorded at the casino since it opened earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Rock Casino Tejon is located off Highway 99 in Mettler and features more than 2,000 slot machines and high-limit gaming areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Southern California man won a $340,000 jackpot Saturday at Hard Rock Casino Tejon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-288458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}