Winning Progressive Slots
The first thing you have to note before betting in progressive slots is to always wager the maximum coins. So if you're playing a 9-payline progressives, you have to activate all paylines by putting in 9 coins. What happens if you fail to insert the max number of coins? The machine will not drop your progressive jackpot amount.
Progressive slots may require you to risk more coins than any other slot machines, but that's only because these slot machines give the biggest paybacks around. If you're lucky, progressive jackpot will multiply your 9 coins a million times over and much, much more!
Before playing progressive slots, make sure your bankroll can sustain the required number of coins.
Another thing to remember: if progressive jackpot comes around, it comes rarely. Your chance of hitting the big prize is the opposite of the size of the progressive jackpot. To put it another way, your frequency of hitting the jackpot is very minimal.
It would be smart if you set yourself a spin limit or a wagering bankroll. Of course, playing longer at progressive slots give you more chances if bagging the prize. But luck is luck, and if you sit too long chasing it, you might end up with nothing but your shoes and clothes. Again, play only with what your pocket can afford.
You may also try playing smaller denomination progressive slots and see how you'd fare. Say, you have only $100. In a $1, 9-payline progressives, that'll give you 11 spins. If you play, say, in dime progressive slots. With just 90 cents a spin, $100 gives you 111 spins! With the same amount, you'll be able to spin more.
The jackpot amount of low denomination machines is, of course, smaller but still pretty substantial. If you win, though, you may have bigger fund to play longer at high- denomination progressive slot machines.
Progressive jackpots become enormous because they are an accumulation of an amount fractioned from each plays. For instance, $20 from every $90 spin becomes the pot money. For instance, the machine is programmed to release the jackpot after 2000 spins. That gives a jackpot total of $40,000.
How large the jackpot is, depend also on what type of slot machine you are playing.
In stand alone progressive, for instance, the jackpot is the total of all the pooled amount from a defined number of plays of a single machine.
In in-house progressive, the jackpot is from the fractioned plays of several machines within a casino.
Multiply the machines in an in-house progressive to the machines of other networked casinos and you have wide area progressive.
But whatever progressive slot machine you choose, remember: if triggered, the jackpot will only be released if you bet the maximum number of coins. Here's another thing to remember: though you need to wager more in progressives than in any other slot games, you may also win the most astronomical jackpot only in progressive slots.