The Endless Stupidity Of Chasing Progressives

[ChopleyIOM]

I've moved onto the next one, as a multiplication of stake Old Glory is currently a better bet than Penta Pay, with the progressive coming in at 2125x stake as I type this.

I sailed back to the IOM yesterday and had this trundling away on my laptop the whole time (nearly four hours) whilst reading two issues of Private Eye. Well, apart from the bit where the boat's wireless craps out in the middle of the Irish Sea. (Private Eye was unaffected by this.)

I've picked it up again this evening, alas still no progressive but it has managed the second best pay of 400x.

You need to get the sevens in the correct order of Red, White, Blue for 400x. (Any other combo is a measly 25x, 3OAKs of single colours are 50x, 75x and 100x.)

In this example the two Ring of Riches progressive symbols are substituting for the 'best' seven they can, i.e. the red on reel one, the white on reel two, and then I have the actual blue seven on reel three.

The third Ring of Riches symbol on reel three in this scenario would have paid the progressive.

Volatility wise this is a tame game, with lots of small and rather unexciting pays, with only the (very rare!) 400x even remotely entering the realms of the trouser-quivering, and then 100x below that, and down from there.

 

[Video_Poker_Pro]

Maybe i missed it but what are the rtp on the ones you play progressiv?

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Maybe i missed it but what are the rtp on the ones you play progressiv?

Old Glory specifically is 95.4% but all the progressives come in around there at 3Dice. (Indeed their entire slots estate is, from memory, between 94.9% and 96.4%.)

What I don't know is the exact contribution to the progressive, but if they're like Double Dice, where you can work the progressive contribution out yourself (4%), then your RTP without winning the progressive will be in the low 90s.

Here's the RTP section from Old Glory's help file.

 

[mulven]

I did wonder from their help files it seems to indicate the videoslots progressive RTP is in addition to the base rtp of the slot (unless not mentioned, like the classic slots). You are probably the most experienced 3dice player active on the forums so you probably know . They say "RTP (+ linked videoslot jackpot)" which is nice if true as jackpot RTP is usually taken away.

Indeed their entire slots estate is, from memory, between 94.9% and 96.4%.

Yep this is indeed the case.

 

[Video_Poker_Pro]

I did wonder from their help files it seems to indicate the videoslots progressive RTP is in addition to the base rtp of the slot (unless not mentioned, like the classic slots). You are probably the most experienced 3dice player active on the forums so you probably know . They say "RTP (+ linked videoslot jackpot)" which is nice if true as jackpot RTP is usually taken away.

Yep this is indeed the case.
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What site has that list?

 

[mulven]

What site has that list?

It's my own spreadsheet. Probably entered a few of the numbers wrong too I bet! Also the volatility column (low/medium/high) isn't actually the volatility of the slot necessarily I just linked it directly to the highest win to homogenise it as providers definitions of volatility aren't super consistent across the board.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I have lumped some serious spins through Old Glory over the last few days, and a not inconsiderable amount of cash, chasing that sweet, sweet progressive. (All on 20p spins, and put it this way, if I'd have won the £530 or so it had climbed to, it would have basically been money back!)

I was going to pick up the quest again this evening, but alas, this has happened to another lucky player.

(This screenshot and the win report were in the 3Dice live chat feed.)





So there you go, can't win 'em all! I really can't complain, and indeed I'm not complaining in the slightest. October was a great month for me at 3Dice, hitting the wild line on Cleopatra's Conquest and then going nuts trying to win progressives, culminating in landing nearly £2K on The Joker - so I don't even remotely begrudge someone else having landed the progressive on Old Glory.

November is another month, but I think I might take a break from chasing progressives

Well, apart from Battle of Bastogne.... Maybe....

 

[ChopleyIOM]

If anyone wants to see that progressive on The Joker actually drop in, it's in my latest video, direct timestamped link to the win

Gives you a better sense of the jackpot sequence than just the screenshots.