Let's catch you up.
7/5 Job is indeed a bad pay-table. Of course we have to list the entire pay table:
1-2-3-4-5-7-25-50-800 = 96.15% return (This would be for a non progressive)
However, the progressive at M adds 4% meter-rise to the Royal Jackpot. If you are unfamiliar with how progressive math works, perhaps it would be easier to visualize in terms of what an average Royal pays out with the meter going up that fast.
4% translates to about an extra 1360 times your bet on the RF. In pay-table terms this would be:
1-2-3-4-5-7-25-50-2160 = 100.18% return.
And this does not factor in the slot club cash back which can be as high as .9% during triple points...and the mailer value.
Therefore, the game you seemed to think was a money maker for the casino, is actually about a 1% loss for the casino, if everyone plays perfectly.
Very few people seem to get how big a deal 4% meter-rise is. It is legendary.
The last time I found a 4% MR progressive in Tahoe, I sold my house in Vegas and moved 5 days later.
In its current state it is slightly too good for the player and may not last, we need to tweak it a little to preserve it.
~FK
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "lfcmja@..." <lfcmja@...> wrote:
So what is this all about ? The M isn't happy because:
> a. Not enough people are playing the progressives?
> or
> b. They want to make even more money from them and good grief, 7/5 Jacks isn't a low enough paytable?
>
> Larry F.
>
