{"id":395784,"date":"2026-07-12T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395784\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:46:06","slug":"gambler-wins-six-figure-pai-gow-jackpot-in-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395784\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambler wins six-figure Pai Gow jackpot in Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"

A gambler at Thunder Valley Casino Resort near Sacramento won a six-figure jackpots with a \u201ccoveted\u201d Face Up Pai Gow Poker hand, casino officials reported.<\/p>\n

The first player won a progressive $120,123 jackpot with five aces on Thursday, July 9, the casino said in a news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cFive aces is what all table game players are hoping for,\u201d said Dawn Clayton, general manager of Thunder Valley Casino Resort. \u201cCelebrating incredible wins with our guests is what it\u2019s all about at Thunder Valley. Congratulations to our lucky guest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thunder Valley has paid out more than 251,000 jackpots over the past year, averaging nearly 700 jackpots per day, or roughly one every two minutes.<\/p>\n

Thunder Valley Casino Resort at 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln has 3,500 slot machines and 89 table games. It is about 35 miles northeast of Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Many people can gamble or play games of chance without harm. However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.<\/p>\n

If you or a loved one shows signs of gambling addiction, you can seek help by calling the national gambling hotline at 1-800-522-4700<\/a> or visiting the National Council on Problem Gambling website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gambler at Thunder Valley Casino Resort near Sacramento won a six-figure jackpots with a \u201ccoveted\u201d Face Up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-395784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395784","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=395784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}