Vegas Technology's Partial Payout Progressives

August 16, 2010 | Article Category: Slots

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Most online casino slot machines will only payout for a progressive slot jackpot win when the maximum coins are played. Although it does frequently happen that there are more minor jackpots that are paid out according to how many coins were used, however, the amount that is then paid out is not usually subtracted from the total amount that is available to the main online casino progressive slot jackpot winner.

The smaller progressive jackpots that are available to players when they are trying to win a really big jackpot keep players coming back for more, because they pay out far more frequently than the really big jackpots can.

For some of their three reel online casino progressive slot jackpots, Vegas Technology has chosen to use technology similar to that of the good old slot machines that many knew and loved. The games are played very simply, and have only one payline.

The following example will explain how these progressive slot games operate.

- The game has one payline.
- There is one coin denomination that can be used, say $1.
- Players can wager up to three coins when playing, which means they can wager either $1, $2, or $3.
- When three of the same pre-decided symbols appear across the payline, the player will have won. The symbols that are used for the winning payline are decided by the online casino when they create the slot game.
- The player can win with either 1, 2 or 3 coins being played, but the amount of money that is paid out will vary according to the amount that has been wagered.
- When players wager only one or two coins, when the maximum possible amount of coins is three, they will receive partial payouts as a percentage of the whole, such as five percent for wagering one coin, and ten percent for wagering two coins.
- One who has wagered the maximum they can, and gets the necessary symbols on the payline, will win the full jackpot that is available for that slot game, and its value will then be reset to its minimum amount.

The one thing that can be somewhat frustrating for players is that the total amount of the jackpot fluctuates as partial payouts are made, which means that the progressive can be worth, say $500,000 one day, and can have dropped to a value of say $350,000 by the next day, although no major jackpots will have been paid out.

For those who cannot always wager the maximum coins, this kind of online casino progressive slot game is an excellent way that they can win fairly large sums of money by wagering only one or two coins.

One of the most well known Vegas Technology progressive slot games that operates in this manner is the Red, White and Win slot game.