On August, Lee Booker of Tyler, Texas drew a royal flush in diamonds while sailing home from a cruise to the Western Caribbean (on the Carnival Ecstasy). He was playing on the Caribbean Stud Poker Diamond Edition with a $1 side bet.

The total jackpot was $209,188, making Mr. Booker the first six-figure winner on a cruise ship this year.

It probably won't be the last, though, as the Ocean Players Club Megacash progressive jackpot --which links machines aboard the Carnival, Princess, Holland America, Costa, Cunard, and other Carnival lines--is now at over $830,000. It has been over a year since it yielded a prograssive jackpot, and the current jackpot is the highest since someone hit a $1,065,428 jackpot in 2004.

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