Defining Your Odds on Playing Progressive Slots

Winning the progressive slots can be very interesting experience to a gambler but for most smart and prudent slot players, the first question that crops to their mind is what are my odds of hitting the progressive jackpot in slots?

The simple answer to this question will be depending to the type of progressive slot game one will be playing. However one thing is for certain. Progressive slot games with higher jackpots are likely to have longer odds of winning it.

Considering the fact that progressive slot machines are of different types, the odds of hitting the jackpot on each type also differs. On a single progressive slot machine commonly known as stand alone progressive slots, it may take a thousand or two before the progressive jackpot is hit on the average often with a good frequency of hitting the jackpot.

Unlike the video poker though where the player's odds of winning the progressive jackpot is already defined to be at least 40,000 to win the royal flush, the winning odds of a slot player cannot be totally defined when playing the regular or progressive slot machines.

Many believe that the slot player's odds of hitting the jackpot from a stand alone progressive slot machine can be around the same level as that of winning the royal flush from the video poker.

The hardest odds to calculate are from the wide area progressive slot machines which involve the biggest progressive jackpot that can be won from the progressive games of slots.

Many find it trickier to calculate the odds to win this type of progressive slot jackpot since the casinos reserve the right not to publicize the odds on their wide area progressive jackpots. Unlike the state lottery where the odds of the game are often printed at the back of the lottery ticket, each player of the progressive slots are playing with blind odds.

The only clue they have is to read the par sheet that displays a list of the probabilities of every combination. Generally, it is believed that the odds of winning this type of progressive slot is about once in every tens of millions.

The payback percentage involved with the progressive slot machine is considerably higher from a stand alone slot game in the long term of playing these machines. The overall payback percentage with higher progressive jackpots is considered to be lower than the progressive games with a lower jackpot to win.

Moreover, one important consideration is to bring better favor to the player's odds of winning the progressive jackpot is to bet the maximum coins into the slot machine. The slot player simply forfeits their chance to win the progressive jackpot if they do not make the maximum bet.