This month, we are featuring Wheel Poker – a fun game which hasn’t been a featured for a while.

With Wheel Poker, you can play Triple Play and Five Play games and cash in on big wheel bonus action on natural four-of-a-kind hands. With a 5-credit max bet on each hand, you have the option to wager an additional credit on all hands to qualify for an equal number of chances at the Wheel Poker bonus. Get a four-of-a-kind on the deal or the draw and spin the wheel for up to 2,000 additional credits!

You can earn 2X Players Club points for playing and can play Wheel Poker right now by clicking here.

A friendly reminder that Training Tuesday takes place the first Tuesday of each month. This gives all members a chance to experience the benefits of Training Mode while competing for real cash prizes. Training Tuesday this month is scheduled for today, May 1st. Experience this great feature now in today’s Daily Contest.

Congratulations to Optimist1, our latest iPad winner. Optimist1 qualified with 387 contest sessions in April. We've also awarded GOLD memberships to 10 other random winners.

At the end of every month, we have a random drawing and award a brand new iPad Air to one lucky winner and GOLD memberships to 10 other winners. Each contest session you play during the month is a chance to earn an entry into the drawing, so the more sessions you play, the better your chance of winning!

Since all contests are now playable on mobile devices, Optimist1 will be able to play on a brand new iPad!

The local casino has a bank of 12 multi-game machines that are tied to a mystery progressive that must hit by $1199, and on a recent visit the progressive was at $1170 and climbing at a steady pace. I figured the progressive had to go out soon, and decided to sit down at an available machine and play some video poker.

I play quarters, and settled on the Bonus Poker Deluxe game. It was a good thing I chose that as I hit quad queens within about ten hands for $100, and now had some ammo to go firing away at the "must hit by" mystery progressive.

I managed to hit about five other quads over the course of the session for $100 each, including one dealt quad, and was pretty much guaranteed to be up money even if I didn't hit that mystery progressive.

While the meter kept moving, it seemed like it was taking forever! $1175, $1180, $1185... I was at the point where I just wanted someone to hit it so I could go home. ...and then, I held three high diamonds and the other two popped in for a royal flush for $1,000! Well, that was nice! It printed a ticket for $1,000, I took a quick picture, and kept hammering away at the game. ...and then...

No, still not the progressive. 16 minutes after I hit the royal flush, I was dealt a flush that was four-to-the-royal. I laughed because I knew there was no way, but had to go for it anyway, threw away the non-royal spade, and you probably already know where this story is going. Another royal flush for another $1,000!

I laughed out loud for about ten seconds, took the new $1,000 ticket it printed, took a quick picture, and kept hammering away. Finally someone else won the mystery progressive for around $1191, I hit "cash out" with $320 on the meter (of a $120 investment, so +$200 there, plus the $2,000), and left the casino a very happy camper.

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