Denny Hamlin explains how he won Las Vegas slot machine jackpots, reveals how much he invested

Denny Hamlin didn’t win the NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway but didn’t leave Sin City empty-handed. On the Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin revealed how much he won while playing the slot machines and how much he invested.

“I’m like, ‘Alright, I’m only willing to invest $11,000 in this thing, but, I’ll do $300 a hand,'” Hamlin said. “I’m going to get at least 30 hands or so, 40 hands in this thing. So I’ll give it a chance. It never went down below $8,000. 10 hands in, it was significant. …I hit the bonus there. Then I went up and up and up. So that original $11,000 never went down hardly at all.

“At the end of the night, you saw the $126,000, the win. But if you look to the right, there’s also a credit there of 50 or 60 that also was on top of that. So take out the $11,000, I end up winning somewhere around $170,000 on Night 1.”

Denny Hamlin talks winning more money in Las Vegas

Hamlin then said he cashed out at the end of the night. The casino gave him the $126,000 cash and a ticket for the remaining money. The following day, Hamlin used the remaining money (around $50,000) for the slot machines and continued to win.

“We won another $160,000 the second night,” Hamlin said while laughing. “And then I cashed out. The casino didn’t like the strategy of me cashing out every jackpot that I hit. What I was doing is I was using up all the credits of the $52,000 that I put in, but every time I would hit a significant win, over $10,000, I’d say, ‘Give me cash. Just give me cash, give me cash,” instead of transferring it to my balance. They weren’t fond of that. …Needless to say it was a wildly successful slot machine that I thought I had a short in it. …We kept saying it doesn’t seem right. It’s just giving us money over and over and over and over.”

Denny Hamlin discussed his success at the casino after showing his win on Instagam ahead of the Cup Series race. It was a much-needed victory for him since he finished 25th in the Pennzoil 400 on Sunday.