Welcome to Worldwide Gaming Showroom open to the public! (Located just 17 miles west of the Twin Cities in Long Lake, Minnesota)Looking for a Las Vegas Casino style slot machine? Worldwide Gaming has it all! We stock all major manufacturers' slot machines and casino related products including bases, stools, and parts for both the wholesale and retail markets! The Queen’s Machine/Queen’s Pull Four Queens Casino, Las Vegas. This humongous slot machine is exclusive to the Four Queens Casino, Las Vegas. Standing ten feet tall and nine feet wide, the Queen’s Machine can accommodate up to six players at any one time, and has a jackpot of $50,000.
Every slot player who has ever walked into a casino has probably had the fantasy of hitting The Big One, that progressive jackpot that will put you on Easy Street for the rest your life. You imagine the thrill of lining up the winning symbols and dream about how you will spend all that money. Then reality kicks in and deep down you know that you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than you do hitting the big jackpot. Does this mean you should not play progressive slot machines?
While the odds of hitting a life-changing jackpot may be astronomical, you don’t have to avoid all progressive machines. As long as you know what to expect and have some realistic expectations you can give them a shot. There are also some progressive machines that are better than others if you want to hit the jackpot. First, let’s take a look at the basics of progressive machines.
Progressive machines are a group of many slot machines linked together by a network. The big progressive jackpot is made by taking a percentage of all the money played into the machine. This means that the jackpot continues to grow as more people play the machine until somebody hits the winning symbols for the top award. Because a percentage of the coins played form the Progressive Jackpot, the actual payback percentage will be less on the other winning symbols and, in some case, the payback percentage on the progressive machines will be less than other machines in the casino. This is true for the machines that offer the life-changing jackpots. Not all progressive machines are the same. There are actually three different types of progressive machines.
The Stand Alone Progressive
The stand-alone progressive machine is not linked to any other machines. Instead of having a fixed top jackpot it takes a percentage of the coins played and adds that to the award for the highest winning combination. It has a meter on the front and shows you the jackpot. In most cases, the payback is equal to the other machines of that denomination but it just distributed differently to give you a varying amount of the top prize. The progressive jackpots for the stand-alone machines are much lower than the ones from machines that are linked together.
In-House or Proprietary Progressives
These are a group of machines linked together and owned and operated by the casino. They may be just in a single casino or linked together with several properties if the gaming company owns more than one casino. The jackpots may not be the multi-million variety but they can be quite a substantial win in some casinos. They generally hit more often than the wide area progressives.
Wide Area Progressive
These are the machines that offer the life-changing jackpots. The machines are linked together from many unrelated casinos. These machines are operated by an independently operated rather than a single gaming company. Slot maker IGT operates games such as MegaBucks, Quatermania, and others in many different states. The casino share in a percentage of the winnings but the operator owns the games. The jackpots may be large but so are your chances of hitting the big prize. Because of the costs of linking the machine and the administrative costs to run these wide area games, the payback percentage on these machines is much lower than on other slots.
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Take Away
It’s alright to try your hand at the big progressive machines hoping that lady luck will shine on you but don’t make it the mainstay of your slot play. Instead set aside a certain percentage of your playing bankroll and use that for a shot at the big one. Winning one of these is pure luck and is a gamble along the lines of buying a lottery ticket. Don’t spend your entire bankroll chasing a dream. If you want to play a progressive machine you might be better off to concentrate your efforts on the stand-alone or in-house progressives. Your odds are much better. Most importantly remember, playing slots is entertainment. Have Fun!
The humble and much-loved slot machine has changed drastically over the years. The first ever slot machine paid out just fifty cents – a far cry from many of today’s machines which can pay upwards of £1 million!
If you are somebody who thinks bigger is always better, and you love the prospect of a big pay-out, then taking your turn on humongous slot games could be just what the doctor ordered. If you are lucky enough to visit one, don’t forget to grab your memorable photo!
Bally’s Casino, Las Vegas
Originally manufactured as a novelty item, this super-slot machine is known as one of the biggest slot machines ever created. Powered by five horsepower electric motors, twenty-inch wide chain wheels, and each pull costing a whopping $100, you can see where the name ‘Big Bertha’ came from!
Bally’s Casino, Las Vegas
It will probably come as no surprise that Super Big Bertha was an upgrade to the aforementioned machine. This beast of a unit once took the crown as the world’s biggest slot machine in the 1950s. Eight reels featured 20 symbols each, returning a huge 25.6 billion possible combinations. With so many combinations, the chances of winning the $1 million jackpot were incredibly slim; in fact, you’d have to play the machine 15 billion times to be in with a chance! Despite the odds, players have won big money over the years, including one woman in 2001 who won the jackpot in an Ontario casino.
Four Queens Casino, Las Vegas
This humongous slot machine is exclusive to the Four Queens Casino, Las Vegas. Standing ten feet tall and nine feet wide, the Queen’s Machine can accommodate up to six players at any one time, and has a jackpot of $50,000. So gargantuan is this machine that several people have been injured while pulling down the giant spin arm! Maybe try stretching before you give it a go…
Wynn Casino, Las Vegas
Built using the Windows 95 operating system, you could be forgiven for thinking that MicroSpin was as small as its name suggests. In fact, at nine feet tall, it was the tallest slot machine in the world during the late 90s. Due to its complex core components, the MicroSpin was able to accommodate up to nine people at any one time. However, winners would have felt a little sore once they realised there were no cash prizes.
Barney’s Casino, Las Vegas
Situated in Barney’s Casino in Nevada, the mechanical behemoth ‘Big Irish Luck’ is a real crowd-pleaser. Five gigantic reels are complete with shamrocks, bells, oranges and four-leaf clovers!
Play slot games at Grosvenor Casinos; Star Lantern, Cleopatra and Isle O Plenty for mega jackpot pay-outs.
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