Wednesday was a lucky day for one Florida man in a Biloxi, Miss., casino.

Playing a $10 slot machine in the high rollers room at the Hard Rock Casino around 9 a.m., the man hit a nearly $1.3 million jackpot. And if that wasn't enough, he won another $14,000 shortly after that, the casino said Thursday (July 19).

The man, whom the casino would only identify as "Fred S. from Gulf Breeze,'' hit on a Progressive 3x, 4x, 5x Machine - Double Diamond slot, the casino said. The jackpot was $1,291,918, the casino said.

The Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi said his big hit ended a drought on $1 million jackpot winners on the Mississippi Gulf Coast dating to October 2015.

Hard Rock said the largest jackpot in the 26 years that gambling has been legal on the coast also came at their casino -- $14 million won on a Wheel of Fortune slot machines by a man from Woolmarket, Miss.