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Question about the "guts" of Progressives

According to Bob Dancer in a recent thread today, the casino pretty much has an option of choosing a pay table that is available and cannot just make up their own pay tables. I didn't know that. I've never seen the guts of a video poker machine.

Here's my question. How about progressives? How do they set the machines to progress? Can they progress ANY game/pay table? Can they progress any hand? Can they progress any rate of meter rise?

I guess I'm asking about your average IGT Game King, since it is by far the most common.

On single line Game King, there are some limitations in the number of
progressives, especially on the older models, but they can set the start
up/reset value and the increment rate to whatever they want.

They can't set an arbitrary paytable because operators need to know how
much the hold is for accounting purposes, and the GameKings are much, much,
much too slow to do any calculation like that.

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On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Bob Bartop <bobbartop@yahoo.com> wrote:

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According to Bob Dancer in a recent thread today, the casino pretty much
has an option of choosing a pay table that is available and cannot just
make up their own pay tables. I didn't know that. I've never seen the guts
of a video poker machine.

Here's my question. How about progressives? How do they set the machines
to progress? Can they progress ANY game/pay table? Can they progress any
hand? Can they progress any rate of meter rise?

I guess I'm asking about your average IGT Game King, since it is by far
the most common.

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