Akwesasne
is a Mohawk Indian Casino in upstate NY that is about an hour’s ride
from a fishing cabin we rent for a week in June and again the end of
August. We usually visit the casino once or twice during our weekly
stays. Not a bad place – comps grow quickly and their
bar/restaurant has great food. We play at the lounge bar tops which
offer a dollar progressive. The games are 8/5 DDB and a lousy Deuces
game. A third game offered is 7/5 Jacks or Better with its own
progressive meter. In June the DDB/Deuces progressive was capped at
$10,000. We played it two separate visits with no luck.
Last
week we visited casino and as expected the $10,000 progressive had
been hit. It was currently around $4,100. My wife started playing
the Jacks or Better progressive since it was a little higher than the
DDB one and hit it for $4,260 after only a few minutes of play. Now
comes the interesting part. A casino manager comes over to do the
paperwork and we asked him about the $10,000 Jackpot. He told us it
was just hit less than a week ago and the guy won $19,000. Naturally
I asked how he won that much. He told me although the progressive is
capped at $10,000 a portion of play still goes in a progressive
escrow that is added to the $4,000 reset amount when the capped
progressive is hit. The guy who hit the $10,000 continued playing and
hit it again for $9,000 ($4,000 reset plus $5,000 escrowed amount). I
am not that all familiar with progressives but this “escrow” deal
was a surprise to me. I checked out the progressive meter which
seemed pretty liberal - $100 through yielded a $1 rise in
progressive.
Two days
latter visited casino and this time I hit the DDB progressive for
$4,360 (holding 4, needing Jack of Hearts). Glad the fishing was not
that great and we made a second casino visit!