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So, Hollywood (both Aurora on friday and Joliet last night) sucked, so we ventured to Harrahs Joliet last night (down the road from Hollywood).

Found that every one of their .25 progressive DDB pays 7/5 - every single one. Well after awhile, no decent machines to be had (busy) - play $100 through this monster and pull a one card hold royal for $1138.

2nd royal in three days.

Nice......very nice. Question:  the win was for 1138 bucks....why "call attendant?"  What are the rules out there for handpays and w-2s?

Nice......very nice. Question:  the win was for 1138 bucks....why "call attendant?"  What are the rules out there for handpays and w-2s?

All progressives require a hand reset of the meter, I think. I don't play enough of them to know for sure though. :( Scotty shouldn't have received a W-2G since it was <$1200.

And wow, what a hit!!! And how many hands do you think you played between both hits? If the sequential royal goes both ways, the machine becomes 97.27% with a crazy variance though. Over 1% of the return is locked into that sequential royal.   

I have been at harrah's joliet a handful of times while visiting my g/f's parents. I usually play cheap (a single line of nickel Super Times Pay) because virtually all games at the quarter level aren't much better than nickels. But the last time I was there, I swear the lady next to me was playing DDB for quarters on a Super Times Pay machine and it paid 9/5 (97.87%; 98.14% with STP bet). That would be easily be better than playing any 7/5 progressive. You aren't forced to play mulitiple hands on those machines, and you aren't forced to play the STP bet either. If you ever find one of those open, I'd check out the paytables on those.

Also keep in mind if you play 8/5 DDB or worse, you can expect to do better long-term on playing one-credit on a 9/6 DDB dollar machine instead. Hitting the Royal would blow though.

Nice......very nice. Question:  the win was for 1138 bucks....why "call attendant?"  What are the rules out there for handpays and w-2s?

something to do with resetting the meter - no w2g.

they do the same on the dollar machines where the royal, aces and kicker card quads are all progressives. everytime someone hits four 4's with a duece, its a handpay for $804 (or close to it).

 Very Nice, Congratulations !

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