A boat for her husband and a holiday in the tropics are in the near future for a woman who won $2.1 million playing the slots at Casino Nanaimo.

Erralyn Joseph, a Snuneymuxw First Nation band councillor, was playing the casinosa国际传媒檚 Wheel of Fortunes Exotic Far East slot machine with her husband Joshua on Feb. 23, and was down to one of her last plays of the night when she hit the jackpot worth $2,129,071.

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The jackpot was a progressive jackpot tallied up by slot machines linked across Canada.

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Joseph said she wants to take all 27 members of her family to the Bahamas or Mexico, buy a boat for her husband and is considering support for local lacrosse.

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