Progressives

Casinos with a reasonable video poker business, or who want to establish one, typically have 2 to 4 video poker progressives on their floor. Usually, casinos offer quarter and dollar progressives.

How to fund the jackpots

As a simple guideline, casinos typically use roughly 1% to 1.5% of coin-in to fund the jackpot(s). Some casinos fund this by tightening one category out of the full house, flush or straight. Other casinos leave the pay tables as normal games and rely on higher coin-in to drive more business through the bank and fund it through higher play levels.

Typical set-ups

A classic set up would be to link a bank of games and progress the royal flush. Simply take your most popular games that all have the same royal flush jackpot and then everyone can compete for the progressed royal without making someone play a game they don’t know or enjoy as much.

Another classic and successful progressive set-up is where an extremely popular game like Double Double Bonus is used and several jackpots are progressed including the royal flush, aces with a kicker and 2’s, 3’s, and 4’s with a kicker. Even when one jackpot hits, there are others to play for which enhances the fun and entertainment for players.

Other options

An excellent variation to the last example is to offer the Double Double Bonus set up on 10-coin quarters. This increases coin-in and offers another fun option for players and the aces with a kicker jackpot start at $2,000.00 and usually hits before the W-2G threshold.

Yet another really fun set up for players is progressing all of the four-of-kind categories on Double Double Bonus Poker. Most people don’t expect to hit a royal flush, but it is quite common to hit a handful of quads in a playing session and this makes it very entertaining as a player with multiple progressed quads.

Finally, another progressive offering that has seen much success in the past few years is taking a challenged location and offering one of the above jackpots on a nickel bank of games.