The elusive Magic City Jai-5 Jackpot, featuring a $1.00 Pick 5 wager, continues to grow as bettors failed once again to select the 5-winners in games 3-7 at Magic City Casino & Jai-Alai in Miami, Florida. Saturday’s opening Week 8 performance showed a whopping $6,484 wagered into the jackpot carryover of $7,230.40 where one must be the ONLY winning ticket with 5 of 5 correct winners to bring home the entire jackpot. This was the 12th consecutive performance where this feat was not accomplished, which ties the previous record of 12-winless performances back in 2019, which led to a single jackpot winner on the 13th try for a record $12,220 payoff on November 9th. The Jai-5 wager is a Jackpot Wager, a popular type of Pick-X exotic wager which has become highly popular throughout the horse racing industry as it leads to some very attractive jackpots for bettors. Jackpot Wagers are only paid out in entirety when there is one unique winning ticket with all winners correctly selected. Magic City Jai-Alai pays out consolation payoffs to winners who have the most games correctly selected when there is not one unique winner. Saturday’s consolation payout was $68.20 to winners correctly selecting any 3 of the 5-games. The house takeout on the Jai-5 is 20% of the gross amount wagered, consolations pay out 40% and the other 40% gets added to the jackpot carryover.
Today’s performance which starts at noon EST, has a Jai-5 Jackpot of $9,824 for the Jai-5 and the payout for a single winning ticket with 5 of 5 correct winners is expected to pay $14,000 or more to a lucky winner, assuming bettors pump a minimum of $5,000 into this challenging wager today. The wager starts on game 3 and with game 1 of today’s performance starting at noon EST, bettors will need to “be on their toes” to get in on today’s action, which means if tuning in at 1-pm, you will likely be too late for a shot at this giant jackpot at Jai-Alai. Start brewing the coffee and studying that Magic City Jai-Alai program!
This jackpot is rapidly approaching the largest Jai-Alai payoff in this century at any Jai-Alai fronton in the USA. The record payoff is $16,372 when Dania Jai-Alai had a $0.50 Pick 5 Jackpot wager. This was in the roughly 2016-2017 time frame and the exact date will be retrieved by this author with some additional research.
Will today be the lucky 13th for someone? Tune in today to YouTube’s “The Jai-Alai Channel” to catch all the exciting short-court Jai-Alai action from Miami, Florida where the fascinating sport of Jai-Alai has been played for over 90-years! If you want to get in on the Jai-Alai wagering action, open a wagering account with WatchandWager.com or MyWinners.com (restrictions may apply).