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Progressive Meters

#1

Here is another question about progressive meters. Does short coin action
always help the max coin meters?

I still see alot of short coin play on bartops.

My favorite old progressive meters were in the before mentioned Westward Ho!
There were two royal meters going and you won the highest one. So it was
rare for a 4000 (or close) royal. Did I mention I had my first lifetime royal at
the Ho! back in May 1993?

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#2

GRAYTLEEGRAY wrote:

Here is another question about progressive meters. Does short coin action
always help the max coin meters?

Usually, but not always. The Frontier had a 6-coin 25¢ bank on which
only 6-coin play would add anything to the meters.

#3

Here is another question about progressive meters. Does short coin

action

always help the max coin meters?

I still see alot of short coin play on bartops.

Short coin action on classic progressives always counts in the meter
movement. The game that Tom referred to at the Frontier was a five-
coin 9/6 Jacks, but a sixth coin made you elegible for, I believe, a
quad progressive, SF progressive, and royal progressive. If you
didn't put in the sixth coin you were just playing regular 9/6
Jacks.

Whether a 1% meter is strong or not depends on how strong the base
game is. 1% is super strong on a 9/6 Jacks, but very weak on an 8/5
Jacks.

At 9/6 Jacks for dollars the breakeven point is $4880. So how much
action does it take to get that extra $880 into the meter. It's
pretty simple, 880 X 100 or $88,000 in action. Dividing that number
by the $5 bet tells us that the royal has to miss only 17,600 games
to get it there. And the short coin action does a good job of
cutting into that number.

At 8/5 Jacks you need an $8800 royal to get to the breakeven point.
To get the extra $4800 into the meter the bank has to get (4800 X
100) $480,000 in action without a royal hitting. That's 96,000
games. Short coin action is negligible here.

So the short of it is you're gonna get alot of positive plays on the
9/6 and you might get a play every once in a blue moon on the 8/5.

Progressives come down to "strength of game and strength of meter
combined." Good luck.

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