{"id":376611,"date":"2026-06-27T00:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376611\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T00:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:49:16","slug":"california-casino-pays-two-pai-gow-six-figure-jackpots-within-same-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376611\/","title":{"rendered":"California casino pays two Pai Gow six-figure jackpots within same hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pai How?!<\/p>\n

Two insanely lucky Pai Gow Poker players hit six-figure jackpots within minutes of each other on Friday at a California casino.<\/p>\n

Both players drew five aces in a game of Face Up Pai Gow Poker to win a combined $261,000, Thunder Valley Casino Resort said.<\/p>\n

The first player drew the lucky hand, the best possible in the game, winning $135,440, including a $4,000 \u201cFortune Bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moments later, \u201clightning struck twice,\u201d the casino said.<\/p>\n

A second player drew a similar hand and won\u00a0$126,000, including a $4,000 \u201cFortune Bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The casino said just one hand would have been a rare occurrence.<\/p>\n

Getty Images\/iStockphoto<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not every day we celebrate a Five Aces jackpot, let alone two,\u201d Dawn Clayton, General Manager of Thunder Valley Casino Resort, said in a press release. \u201cWe are thrilled for our two lucky winners. What a great start to their weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither winner has been identified. The casino told The California Post that \u201cboth guests declined publicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile jackpot wins are always exciting, you never know if you could be the next table games winner,\u201d the casino teased.<\/p>\n

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Thunder Valley Casino Resort, which has more than 400 hotel rooms and 3,500 slot machines, is located about 27 miles northeast of Sacramento.<\/p>\n

The casino has been the site of extraordinary luck in the recent past. A different player won a six-figure Pai Gow jackpot for $140,000 on June 13.<\/p>\n

And an $8.80 spin from an anonymous gambler turned into a $381,009 payday on a\u00a010-cent slot machine<\/a> last month at the resort. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pai How?! Two insanely lucky Pai Gow Poker players hit six-figure jackpots within minutes of each other on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,13087,4182,152486,121,3586],"class_list":["post-376611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-gambling","tag-metro","tag-poker","tag-sacramento","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376611","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=376611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}