Poker Player Allen ‘Chainsaw’ Kessler Talks About His $1.2M Slot Jackpot at Thunder Valley Resort

Poker Player Allen ‘Chainsaw’ Kessler Talks About His $1.2M Slot Jackpot at Thunder Valley Resort

On social media, Kessler likes to post about the shocking price of food in Las Vegas, although dinner may be on him for some time to come. And he’ll never be able to talk about bad beats ever again.

“Omg, this just f###in happened. Covers my entire WSOP debacle with $1m to spare,” Kessler wrote in a tweet accompanying the video of his win.

It was so surreal,” Kessler told Casino.org Wednesday after he’d had some time to recover. “I’ve seen that wheel spin a million times, and it’s frequently a near miss, stopping at the one before or after the $1.2 million spot. When it stopped on the jackpot, my jaw dropped.”

While many poker players eschew slots and other casino games for their negative expected value, Kessler is a big fan and even plans his poker tournament schedule around events that are attached to real casinos so he can play them when he busts.

It’s relaxing, he says, and he can afford it, although he admits that he was betting way higher than usual on Tuesday. He also enjoys the comps casinos lay on for their big-spending players, such as the free rooms and food.

Despite being among a select group of people to have cashed more than 100 times at WSOP events, Kessler says this is his biggest gambling win “by far.”

All that was left was to decide whether to take the lump sum up front, or a series of payments over 20 years. He opted for the lump sum because “with my diet, I may not live 20 years.”

Do you plan to do anything special with the money, we ask.

“Not really, I’ll just keep plugging along,” says Kessler.