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January 2005
Progressive Jackpot
Jackpot Basics
Jackpots are a common method for casinos to give
the probability of winning a large amount of money to
the player. To play a few credits on a jackpot machine
may come in for a win up to millions. Jackpots therefore
will attract more and different people to the casino.
Usually optical and acoustical appliances promote
jackpots. Large displays show current jackpot values
and/or attracting messages. In case of a jackpot win
displays or other optical attractors as well as sound
systems inform the casino’s visitors about the large
win. All those kinds of multi media events motivate
more people to play, and to play more.
Classical progressive jackpots are defined as a group
of slot machines contributing a certain percentage of
their turnover to a pot. Usually this pot is fed with a
base value at the start and after each win, called
jackpot hit. The pot then increments until a certain
winning combination appears on the slot machine. This
combination is said to „trigger the jackpot hit.“ Upon
a hit event the current jackpot amount is paid to the
player at the winning slot machine. Progressive games
can either be single machine jackpots called stand alone
jackpots or linked progressive jackpots, which consist
of several machines contributing to one jackpot.
All contributions taken from the slot machines’
turnover have to be contributed to people playing on
those slot machines. Therefore they can be considered
as additional payout of the slot machines. The basic
payout percentage is given by the applied paytable of
the machine. The additional payout generated by a pro-
gressive jackpot has to be considered in all calculation
where the slot machine’s theoretical payout is rele-
vant.
Since the probability to win a jackpot has to be equal
for all slot machines participating in that jackpot, only
machines that match some link criteria, may be
connected to a linked progressive jackpot (see also
link criteria definition on page 7).
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