Online Casinos Progressives Slots - All you need to know

In today's world of online casinos we all sure do love playing our favourite pokies slot video games. It makes the slot game even more magical when there are free spins and bonus features as well, it increases your lucky charm of grabbing the winnings. But why stop there, go big - and go for progressive jackpots. This takes the player on a whole new journey of winning big. Let's begin to learn all the basics about the mystery progressive jackpots - what does it mean, how does it work and how does it get triggered!

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What does Progressive Jackpot mean?

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In a nutshell, a Progressive Jackpot is a jackpot that increases every time you play a game and the jackpot is not won, it increases after every bet you place. It rewards you with a fixed percentage of the total bets you placed during the game when you do finally hit that jackpot. 

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What is the main difference between Standard jackpot and Progressive Jackpot?

Basically the standard jackpot is a fixed amount for a game and the amount will not change, whereby the progressive jackpot keeps growing while you playing the game until you hit the jackpot.

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How are Progressive Jackpots paid?

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So what happens when you actually beat the odds and hit that magical progressive jackpot?
If you have lined up all the correct required jackpot symbols on the reels, there will be an instant message that will pop up that will tell you that this must be your lucky day and that you have won the progressive jackpot and how much coins or prize you have won. Your jackpot winnings will be added to your credits and the progressive will be reset back to the start again.

 

If you for some reason don't believe you won a jackpot, or you are not sure as you still very amazed that you actually won the progressive jackpot you can always contact the casino host or alternatively, they will normally contact you to congratulate you for winning that games jackpot.

 

Depending on what online casino you choose to play at, the winnings usually are too big to be cashed out at once as most of the online casinos have a maximum that you can withdraw per day using the wallets. Usually you can get most of your winnings out if you choose to do bank transfer but that won't be instant and may take a few days to reflect into your current. Don't worry though, your winnings are not going anywhere, the remaining balance will sit in your account until your cash it out again the next day or you can choose to be braver and choose a different game to try and hit the odds and catch the jackpot again.

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Pokies Tips to Progressive Slot Strategy 

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Please take note this is just a strategy guide and how to max your winnings and not necessarily a fixed guide on winning the progressive jackpot. The first thing you need to do when playing a progressive machine is to remember to set your bet to max for every spin to maximize your winnings. When you bet max you also increase your luck of hitting the jackpot as opposed to betting small. The next tip is to always choose the machine with the highest jackpot, that's a bit obvious if you want to win really big. When choosing a progressive machine to play, always remember to look at the progressive base level. If the progressive jackpot base level is low it means that machine has recently been won and the odds of the progressive jackpot for that machine in paying out will be really slim. 

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What are the odds of hitting a Jackpot?

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So how lucky can you get in winning a progressive jackpot, as the house always has the bigger hand over the players, as they say in the casino online world. In today's most modern slot machines, the odds of hitting a certain symbol or a series of combinations of symbols depends on how the virtual reel is set up. So the odds of hitting a certain image or symbol on the actual reel depends on how many virtual stops corresponds to the actual stop. In a normal weighted slot machine, the highest jackpot paying image for each reel corresponds to only one virtual stop. So the odds is 1 to 64, which basically in pokies slots terms means the chance of hitting the jackpot image on one reel is 1 to 64., or the chance of hitting the jackpot image on all three reels is 1 in 64 or 262,144. For those pokies slots machines that have higher jackpots, the virtual reel may have many more stops and this decreases the odds of winning the jackpot.