The slot machine that provided the $1.4 million payoff has a Star Wars theme.
8:40 p.m. update: Brin-Martin, who is unemployed, had just splurged on a replica "Star Wars" light saber for her children. » Read the story.
HOLYOKE – A city woman won $1.4 million on a slot machine at the Mohegan Sun casino Monday.
Gabriele Brin-Martin won $1,427,870 on a one cent IGT Star Wars Wide Area Progressive machine, a press release from the Uncasville, Conn. casino said Tuesday.
Brin-Martin couldn’t be reached for comment.
Mohegan Sun is owned by the Mohegan Tribe, one of the largest gaming desinations in the country in southeastern Connecticut.