The Cosmopolitan hotel-casino opened a newly remodeled high-limit gaming room Thursday featuring the casino industry’s first $5 million linked slot progressives, part of an overhaul aimed at expanding premium gaming options for high-end customers.
The renovated and expanded space includes more than 110 slot and video poker machines, an expanded cashier’s cage, upgraded beverage service and a more enclosed layout designed in response to guest feedback, said Mike Gatten, senior vice president of casino operations at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
“We’ve got a lot of new guest convenience and guest experience features,” Gatten told the Review-Journal. “We really listened to some feedback from the customers.”
The centerpiece of the room is Aristocrat Gaming’s debut of two separate $5 million linked progressive jackpots, the largest linked jackpots the slot manufacturer has introduced.
One progressive links two Dragon Link machines, while a second connects a Phoenix Link machine with a Lightning 10 Year Storm machine, creating four premium slot machines across two independent $5 million jackpots.
The Cosmopolitan worked with Aristocrat to become the first casino in the world to offer the new progressive configuration.
“Partnering with Aristocrat on this stuff…getting to offer the first in the world for Dragon Link, Phoenix Link and Lightning 10 Year Storm with a $5 million progressive link was pretty impressive,” Gatten said. “We’re proud of that.”
The new progressives become some of the property’s largest slot jackpots outside of Megabucks, which remains available on the main casino floor. Gatten said Dragon Link, Phoenix Link and Lightning 10 Year Storm rank among the industry’s most popular premium slot titles, making the larger jackpots a natural fit.
Beyond the gaming floor, the renovation modernizes a high-limit room that Gatten said had remained largely unchanged for years.
The redesigned space was the product of a lengthy planning process that included multiple design revisions before construction began. The Cosmopolitan has been steadily reinvesting in its gaming floor since MGM Resorts International acquired the property in 2022.
“The pieces started really coming together this week as it was nearing completion,” said Gatten. “I’m just impressed with how well everything kind of comes together.”
Among the room’s most talked-about design features is a leopard-print carpet that has generated strong reactions from employees ahead of Thursday afternoon’s public opening.
“It’s either they love it or they hate it,” he said. “That’s probably been the funnest part of this one.”
The room officially opened to guests at 3 p.m. Thursday.
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