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NV Casino "bleeds" high progressive?

#1

Experienced an incident with a progressive bank that I believe rates as “legit”, but I’d appreciate feedback. (I’m not detailing actual location):

Played a $1 progressive on a “full pay” machine one evening for which the meter was north of $7400. Meter had been advancing about $400/day the last 4 days, with light to moderate play (midweek). Returned for play the next morning and the meter was now at $4800 + change. I know, from past observation that the game resets at $4000.

There’s little doubt in my mind that the casino bled the meter. Since a casino is required to transfer a progressive meter to another game when shutting down a machine, I presume that they’re permitted to do so at will as well.

Can anyone confirm this for NV? Had never heard of a casino doing this short of removing a machine or the progressive meter from a game.

  • H.
#2

I know you said you saw in the past that it resets at $4000 but maybe they put in a backup meter? If there wasn’t one before it’s unlikely, but possible.

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Experienced an incident with a progressive bank that I believe rates as "legit", but I'd appreciate feedback. (I'm not detailing actual location):

Played a $1 progressive on a "full pay" machine one evening for which the meter was north of $7400. Meter had been advancing about $400/day the last 4 days, with light to moderate play (midweek). Returned for play the next morning and the meter was now at $4800 + change. I know, from past observation that the game resets at $4000.

There's little doubt in my mind that the casino bled the meter. Since a casino is required to transfer a progressive meter to another game when shutting down a machine, I presume that they're permitted to do so at will as well.

Can anyone confirm this for NV? Had never heard of a casino doing this short of removing a machine or the! progressive meter from a game.

- H.

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#3

vp_wiz wrote: “Can anyone confirm this for NV? Had never heard of a casino doing this short of removing a machine or the progressive meter from a game.”

Yup, it’s done, apparently gaming isn’t concerned as long as the funds are moved somewhere, could be to a dummy slot with high hold, or they might put it back later during a period they want to promote play or for a certain prefered customer. It’s similar to changing the paytables, in theory they aren’t supposed to do this while people are playing, but in practice they can just pull the power, when everyone finally leaves they change the paytable. They know what your credits were before the power pull, they offer to handpay that amount or if you want you can dispute it with gaming. If they want to be mean they say you have to come back later to get your credits. Often they make the claim: “machine malfunction voids all pay”.