The Gold Coin Jackpot Is Always Spinning: A McLuck Jackpot Unlike Any Other

The Gold Coin Jackpot Is Always Spinning: A McLuck Jackpot Unlike Any Other
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Iva Dozet News Editor
Fact Checked: PokerListings
  • Updated: October 5, 2026
  • Read time: 1 min

We’re all to familiar with casino jackpots coming with a catch. Maybe you need the right game, the right stake, or a very specific combination of symbols before the big number even enters the conversation.

To our surprise, McLuck Casino built its Gold Coin Jackpot a little differently differently — every player using Gold Coins is automatically entered, every game on the site counts, and any spin can theoretically trigger one of four progressive jackpot tiers, the biggest of them starting at GC 200 million.

And, judging by some of the most recent wins, it doesn’t always stay there for long.

How the McLuck Gold Coin Jackpot Works

The most important piece of lore here is that the Gold Coin Jackpot runs automatically in the background whenever players use Gold Coins at McLuck. There is no separate opt-in button and no specific jackpot game you need to find first.

Instead, every game round carries a separate jackpot contribution, and each spin can trigger one of the four prizes.

Jackpot TierMinimum Starting Amount
GC Mini10,000 GC
GC Minor200,000 GC
GC Major2,000,000 GC
GC Grand200,000,000 GC

All four tiers are progressive, meaning their totals continue growing as players contribute to the jackpot pools, with no maximum win limit on any of the four levels.

The contribution is taken separately from the normal game spin — 0.5% of the player’s Gold Coin balance or 100 GC, whichever is higher, provided there are Gold Coins available.

While all this might sound like a setup for a jackpot that hits every blue moon, these prizes get triggered fairly regularly.

When we took a look at McLuck’s jackpot tracker, the GC Mini had been won just two minutes earlier for GC 31,607, while the GC Major had gone 29 minutes earlier for GC 17,141,721. The Grand naturally takes a little more patience, but its previous winner had landed a considerably less patient-looking GC 12,752,771,845.