



Johnson says he’d never really had much interest in video keno until he talked to Hernandez, but he was up for some fun, so he started playing seven numbers (the more numbers you select, the bigger the potential payout). For anyone else, that would be a spectacular run, but Johnson wasn’t done yet. He headed back to Cosmo, kept playing the numbers and turned his $600 into $12,000. Within 10 minutes, Johnson hit five numbers out of five with a max bet of $8 for a win of $600. Johnson took it under advisement and played the numbers later that day at Bellagio. Hernandez, who usually works at Cosmo’s beloved Chandelier Bar (photo below), proceeded to point out a machine at the bar, and recommended Johnson play these numbers: 9, 18, 19, 20, 29. I came to Vegas one weekend and busted out. Johnson, a regular visitor to Las Vegas from Tennessee, says, “The whole silly keno thing started with Cosmo bartender Jeff Hernandez. That’s amazing in and of itself, but even more incredible is he won with the exact same numbers each time. Johnson recently won two mammoth jackpots on video keno, each worth more than $140,000. Although, honestly, “lucky” is a bit of an understatement.
