Greetings-
FWIW, I spent the last few nights (5/16, 17 & 18)at Main Street
Station, and during my stay, the bank of $1 9/6 (I think) Double Bonus
Progressives directly in front of the cage was hit for $17,800. I gave
it a little action when it was close to $17K , but no luck. It was hit
after I walked away evidently.
I don't recall seeing a $1 progressive quite that high before.
Good luck to all.
tommywishbone wrote:
FWIW, I spent the last few nights at Main Street Station, and during
my stay, the bank of $1 9/6 (I think) Double Bonus Progressives
directly in front of the cage was hit for $17,800. I gave
it a little action when it was close to $17K , but no luck. It was
hit after I walked away evidently.I don't recall seeing a $1 progressive quite that high before.
That's pretty awesome. (would be even more so had you hit it 
The strongest hit I've witnessed was about 1-1/2 years ago on another
near-98% $1 game for $15,500. That machine had a 1% meter. (I know
some avid progressive chasers who I suspect have seen $20K+ meters)
If that DB machine has a similar 1% meter, that makes for 276,000
hands played. Assume that the play was moderately aggressive, with a
RF cycle of 35,000 hands, and that makes for close to 8 cycles played.
It's about 1 in 2700 runs that a meter won't be hit within that time.
FWIW, with a 2% meter that would be a more modest 138,000 hands with a
1 in 52 probability.
- Harry
Post #2 for me, all in the same day. =8-0
Those machines are 8/5 DDB, not 9/6 DB. I stayed there from Sunday to
Wednesday. When I got in, the prog meter was just over 8K. I gave it
some action during my days there, but no love. I asked a change
person when it was hit; just my luck, about 5 minutes before I asked.
Apparently the lucky player is a bartender at the Cal, possibly one
who has hit it big on that bank of machines before.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter" <harry.porter@...> wrote:
tommywishbone wrote:
> FWIW, I spent the last few nights at Main Street Station, and during
> my stay, the bank of $1 9/6 (I think) Double Bonus Progressives
> directly in front of the cage was hit for $17,800. I gave
> it a little action when it was close to $17K , but no luck. It was
> hit after I walked away evidently.
>
> I don't recall seeing a $1 progressive quite that high before.That's pretty awesome. (would be even more so had you hit it
The strongest hit I've witnessed was about 1-1/2 years ago on another
near-98% $1 game for $15,500. That machine had a 1% meter. (I know
some avid progressive chasers who I suspect have seen $20K+ meters)If that DB machine has a similar 1% meter, that makes for 276,000
hands played. Assume that the play was moderately aggressive, with a
RF cycle of 35,000 hands, and that makes for close to 8 cycles played.
It's about 1 in 2700 runs that a meter won't be hit within that time.FWIW, with a 2% meter that would be a more modest 138,000 hands with a
1 in 52 probability.- Harry
mrfjmt wrote:
Those machines are 8/5 DDB, not 9/6 DB.
That lends a lot of credance to the likelihood that the meter rate was
2%, and a strong probability of coming across a $1 meter at that level.
Given the reporting of $1 9/7 DB and $1 8/5 BP progressives at MSS in
the vpFREE database, it's quite conceivable that MSS would be happy
with the profitability of a 2%-3% meter on a base 96.8% game.
- H.