A player at Dutch online casino Circus.nl won a Dream Drop Mega jackpot of €1,997,230 on Sunday, 19 July, from a €3 spin on Relax Gaming’s Temple Tumble 2 Dream Drop slot. It is the third seven-figure Dream Drop payout at a Dutch licensed operator in roughly nine months, and one of the largest single wins Circus.nl has recorded since it went live.
Circus.nl confirmed the win in a promotional post this week, dating the hit to 19 July and naming Temple Tumble 2 Dream Drop as the game. The operator did not identify the player. According to the announcement, the €3 stake triggered the jackpot entry and returned €1,997,230, the top prize in the Dream Drop tier structure.
How the Dream Drop network pays out
Dream Drop is a network progressive jackpot built by supplier Relax Gaming and shared across multiple online slots and multiple operators. Every qualifying spin on a linked game feeds the pooled prize, so the jackpot climbs faster than a single-operator progressive and pays at random during normal play rather than through a fixed bonus round.
The system runs five tiers: Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major and Mega, with Mega the largest. On a jackpot entry spin, one of the five tiers is awarded. The 19 July win was the Mega, which reset after the hit and, by the operator’s own tracker, had climbed back to €1,749,011. Circus.nl lists the highest Dream Drop Mega it has paid at €2,985,950, with an average Mega win of €2,425,643.
Temple Tumble 2 Dream Drop is a Relax Gaming slot released in 2022, built on a 6×6 grid with cluster pays and cascading symbols. Winning symbols clear after a payout and new symbols drop in, and multipliers and wilds can chain multiple wins inside a single spin. The Dream Drop jackpot sits on top of that base game and is not tied to it, which is how a €3 spin can return close to €2 million.
Three Dutch seven-figure wins in nine months
The Circus.nl hit is the latest in a run of large Dream Drop payouts at operators licensed by the Dutch gambling regulator, the Kansspelautoriteit (KSA). In October 2025, a player won €1.97 million on Temple Tumble 2 at TOTO. In January 2026, a player at Goldrun, which now trades as Oranje Palace, won €1,994,839 on the same game from a €0.50 spin.
Three wins clustered between €1.97 million and €2.0 million across three separate KSA licensees points to how much traffic the Dream Drop network now carries in the regulated Dutch market. Network progressives give smaller and mid-sized operators access to a jackpot pool they could not build alone, and the shared prize is a marketing draw that a single-site jackpot cannot match. For Relax Gaming, repeat seven-figure wins across competing Dutch brands are evidence that its jackpot network has scale in one of Europe’s stricter licensed markets.
Circus.nl and the regulated Dutch market
Circus.nl is operated by Betca B.V., a joint venture involving Belgian supplier and operator Gaming1, and holds a KSA licence granted in March 2022, the year after the Netherlands opened its regulated online market under the Remote Gambling Act (KOA). The site runs sportsbook and casino content, with slot titles from third-party studios including Relax Gaming.
The Dutch market has tightened since launch, with deposit limits, advertising restrictions and heavier duties on operators. Large, publicised jackpot wins remain one of the few promotional levers that clears compliance, because the operator is reporting a factual outcome rather than advertising a bonus or an inducement to play.
The Mega jackpot has already reset and is climbing again toward the €2 million mark. If the pattern of the past nine months holds, the next Dream Drop hit at a Dutch licensee is a question of when rather than whether, and each one hands Relax Gaming and its operator partners a fresh, compliant headline in a market where those are increasingly hard to come by.
Source: Circus.nl
