Progressive machines are a group of slot machines that have been linked together to form a network. The Progressive Jackpot amount is created by taking a percentage of all the money played into the machine across the entire Progressive network. This means the Progressive Jackpot will grow as more people play in the Progressive network until somebody hits the winning symbols for the top Progressive Jackpot.

Please Note! Not all progressive machines are the same. There are actually three different types of progressive machines.

Stand Alone Progressive Slots

The stand alone progressive machine is not linked to any other machines. Instead of having a fixed top jackpot it takes a percentage of the coins played and adds that to the award for the highest winning combination. The Progressive Jackpots on stand alone machines are much lower than the ones from machines that are linked together.

Proprietary Progressive Slots

These are a group of Progressive machines linked together and owned and operated by a single casino group. If more than one casino brand is owned these Progressive Networks can be run across all affiliated casinos. These Propriety Progressive Slots Jackpots normally not of the multi-million jackpot variety, but can still be quite substantial. They generally hit more often that the big wide area progressives.

Wide Area Progressive Slots.

These are the Progressive Slots Games that offer life changing Progressive Jackpots (see below for more about life changing jackpots). The machines are linked together from many unrelated casinos. These machines are operated by an independent operator such as Microgaming. The casinos share in a percentage of the winnings but the operator owns the games. The Jackpots may be large but the chances of hitting that big life changing win are small.

The Biggest Progressive Slots Win in History!

The largest Progressive Jackpot amount ever won was by 39 year old entrepreneur Georgios M. at the River Belle Online Casino in 2009. The game he was playing was the Microgaming powered Mega Moolah Progressive Slot Machine and the amount won was – €6.3 million ($8,6 million) in CASH! 

While handing over a cheque for the full €6.3 million to the delighted Georgios Belle Rock Entertainment’s Chairman Tim Johnson had this to say: “We at Belle Rock Entertainment take the utmost pleasure in seeing our players win life changing jackpots. It is an amazing accomplishment that for a single bet of €5 a valued long time River Belle player walked away with one of the largest online jackpots ever won. Well done and enjoy your winnings Georgios.”

Online casino players interested in playing and winning on any River Belle Progressive Slot Machine need to go to River Belle Online Casino, download the FREE online casino software, open a new real money account, make an initial deposit and start playing. It’s that easy!