Blake Shelton may be a dubious figure on your in-laws' television screens, but an extension of him is popping out of slot machines at Tampa's Seminole Hard Rock Casino.
According to a press release, Christopher Escott was a recent Blake Shelton Video Slots jackpot winner at the gambling hotspot. The jackpot that Escott won awarded the Pinellas man a Shelton autographed guitar — according to the release, the prize is the gaming industry’s first in-game giveaway of its kind.
In September, Seminole Hard Rock Tampa became the first casino in the world to receive IGT’s Blake Shelton Video Slot machines, which are located in the Art Deco-inspired Mezzanine Level Casino.
This low denomination, 40 pay-line game features a jukebox that plays Shelton songs. During the BS’ers Pick bonus, players select bottle caps to fill spaces on the bingo-style board. If four horizontal or vertical spaces in a line are filled, the player will win the corresponding credit value.
If players fill the winning diagonal line, they are awarded one of 100 guitars autographed by Shelton with their jackpot. No word on whether you can pawn the thing off immediately after winning it.
Shelton — a five-time CMA Male Vocalist of the Year winner and seven-time Grammy nominee who is known for his success in country music and his role as a coach on the Emmy Award-winning television show The Voice — is also playing Tampa's Amalie Arena on March 8.
This article appears in Jan 3-10, 2019.
