Today's world of gaming and gambling has gone global. The Internet not only allows players to go for different sites and games from around the world, but also to play alongside millions of others for jackpots that are getting bigger and doing it faster than ever before.

In our casino winners section we'll tell you about the luckiest of players. Every big win at any casino has the potential to become legend, as many already have. The idea of making a fabulous amount of money literally from one moment to the next has fascinated countless people for decades and created its own myths, legends and heroes. Read up on today's luckiest right here.

The story of Greek slot player Giorgios shows the staggering potential of today's wins. He became a millionaire at age 36 when, after only placing a small bet, he cracked the Mega Moolah jackpot and won an incredible €6.3 million, the biggest single win ever recorded in the history of online slots.

Many of the biggest casino winners have long since become legends. Perhaps the most impressive winning streak of all times happened in the early 1990s, when gambler Archie Karas started out with $50 dollars in 1992 that he turned into $40m by 1995. Today, Karas' winning streak is simply referred to as “The Run”. In it, he not only managed to play at some of the highest stakes ever seen in Las Vegas, but also to beat fellow poker crack Stu Ungar.

While there was plenty of skill involved in the example above and poker isn't entirely a game of chance, pure luck can sometimes take people a long way as well. Charlie Wells became a famous casino winner by breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. A gambler as well as a con man, he arrived in Monte Carlo in 1891 with 4000 British pounds he had tricked his business partners into paying him. In eleven hours at the roulette, he broke the bank twelve times, winning a million francs. He returned later in the year and made another million over three days. He was suspected of cheating, but later on admitted to nothing more than playing at high stakes to make up for losses.