Progressive slots

All the slot machines can be divided into two types: regular slots and progressive slots. For the long time there were only regular slots with small jackpots. The invention of Megubucks with Megajackpot by the IGT Company  in 1986 was a turning point in slots’ history. Such slots obtained a category of progressive slots.

Progressive slots offer much bigger jackpot than the regular ones. The thing is that group of progressive slots are linked together in one system in order to accumulate one big jackpot. The progressive slots’ concept is similar to well-known big lotteries like Megamillion or Powerball in the United States. In other words playing a progressive slot, everyone got a chance to win up to $40 million dollars. Progressive slots can be of different types.

The Stand Alone Progressive Slots

The stand alone progressive isn’t connected to the other slot machines. It doesn’t have a fixed jackpot, but adds the percentage of coins played to the highest winning combination. In such types of slots the current jackpot is displayed for the player to choose a slot with a highest jackpot. In general, the payback in such machines is nearly equal, but is distributed in a different way, just for the variation of the jackpot’s amount. Of course, the jackpots for the stand alone progressive slots are much lower because they aren’t linked together in one system.

In-house or Proprietary Progressive Slots

These are progressive slots that are linked together within a one casino or the chain of casinos. The jackpot of in-house slots is bigger than of stand alone progressives. It has much more chances to be hit than those huge wide area progressives’ jackpots.

Wide Area Progressive Slots

The jackpots of Wide Area progressive slots are the life-time dream of every player.  One person can win up to $40 or $50 million at once, though can lose almost everything as the payback is rather low comparing with the other slot machines. This is because of the administrative and connection costs. Such expenses can afford mainly the independent operators like IGT with its most famous operated games as MegaBucks or Qatermania.

Player’s advice: It’s much more chances to win good money or at least playing stand alones or in-house progressives than wide area progressives, though latter have bigger jackpots