Progressive slot machines

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Progressive machines are a group of many slot machines linked together by a network. A percentage of the money played on each machine is added to the big jackpot. Anyone hitting the winning symbols on any machines on the network wins the jackpot. There are two types of progressive machine networks you should be aware of. They are the area wide network and the proprietary network.

The area wide network would include machines in many casinos linked together throughout the state or certain areas around the country. International Gaming Technology IGT introduced the first progressive machine on March 6 1986. The Megabucks game was designed to rival the large payoffs offered by state lotteries to attract the player looking for the big win. The first jackpot of $4,988,842.17 was hit in Reno on February 1, 1987. The rest as they say is history. Progressive machines have been gaining in popularity ever since. As the popularity has increased so has the Jackpots. This year a record setting $35 million was won in January. IGT introduced many other progressive machines including Quartermania, Wheel of Fortune and more. You can view and watch the MegaJackpot meters for all the IGT games anywhere in the country they on the IGT website. If you are looking for past history of the jackpots, you can find that online as well. The casinos do not own these games. IGT installs and maintain them in the casinos that wish to participate. The casinos receive a small percentage. Because they attract players to the establishment the casinos grant them space.

To gain more profit of their own, many casinos have installed proprietary progressive machines. These progressive machines are placed in carousels and are linked throughout the casino. Although these machines cannot offer the huge jackpots of the area wide progressives, they do offer a big jackpot that has a higher hit frequency.

All progressive machines have two things in common. The money for the jackpot comes from a percentage of the money played through the machine. This means that they payback of progressive machines will be less than the payback of other non-progressive machines. The second common feature of the progressive machines is that you must be playing maximum coins to win the jackpot. If you aren't going to play maximum coins you should not play these machines.

The odds of hitting one of the area wide progressives are astronomical. Slot expert John Robison recently wrote in Frank Scoblete's Chance and Circumstance magazine that the chance of hitting Megabucks is 49,836,032 to one. You as a player must decide how much of your bankroll you want to risk on these types of machines.

If you are looking to stretch your casino money and playing time, it might be best to limit your play or avoid these machines. If you want the thrill of playing a progressive you may want to look at the smaller proprietary jackpots.