What is a local progressive vs a linked progressive?
LOCAL PROGRESSIVE - A local progressive is one that is just for a single casino. Typically these games have progressive amounts like $1000 or $5000 or even up to $40,000 or $50,000. The jackpot is made by everyone that makes a bet on those machines. This is called the contribution by most slot machine managers and companies. This contribution is typically 1-3% of the money that is played on the machine.
LINKED PROGRESSIVE - A linked progressive is one that has lots of casinos helping to fund a big jackpot. These jackpots are in the $100,000 or $1,000,000+ range (think MegaBucks or Wheel of Fortune, IGT trademarks by the way).
But then there are even more progressive options now!
MULTILEVEL PROGRESSIVE LOCAL - Now-a-days there is another kind of progressives that you see a lot. These are games that have three or four of five+ different progressive amounts. So you might have a small progressive that goes at $50+, one at $100+, one at $250+ and one at $1,000+ for example. You can think of these as games like the Cash Express series made by Aristocrat.
MULTILEVEL PROGRESSIVE LINKED - These are all the rage with the slot companies right now. They have 3 or 4 or more smaller progressives and then they have a large linked progressive in addition. The Powerball games put out by WMS are perfect examples of this.
What kind of progressive slot machine should I play?
That depends on what you want. If you want to be more likely to win a prize, but it be a lower one then it would make sense to play a local progressive. If however you want the chance to win enough money to change you life like 100,000 or 1 million dollars (the people in the business often call it a "life changing progressive") then you should play a linked progressive.
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