New Slot Machine Helps Players Avoid W2-G's

The IRS won't get off the dime. Over 45 years ago they set the jackpot threshold on slots at $1200. Factoring in inflation the number should be $6000 today. It's a bipartisan issue to get the threshold raised but everyone knows how greedy the IRS is.

Light & Wonder, formerly Scientific Games, has come up with an ingenius way to allow jackpots above the $1200 threshold while avoiding W2-G's. It's probably the wave of the future.

Light & Wonder slots in the casinos have the Bally's and WMS logos on them.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...mXjQumSMLWxHSU

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...p-KH_TXtuWsMTo

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Originally Posted by mickeycrimm

The IRS won't get off the dime. Over 45 years ago they set the jackpot threshold on slots at $1200. Factoring in inflation the number should be $6000 today. It's a bipartisan issue to get the threshold raised but everyone knows how greedy the IRS is.

Light & Wonder, formerly Scientific Games, has come up with an ingenius way to allow jackpots above the $1200 threshold while avoiding W2-G's. It's probably the wave of the future.

Light & Wonder slots in the casinos have the Bally's and WMS logos on them.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...mXjQumSMLWxHSU

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...p-KH_TXtuWsMTo

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Thanks Mickey. I can see it now: you hit a royal flush on dollar denom and a little virtual wheel appears on the screen and you get four wheel spins where each spin has a minimum and maximum prize of $1000 - on the pay table screen there are wheel spins rather than coin amounts for any coin amount that would have resulted in a win at or above $1200 ;-)

Surprised no one bothered to try this before.

Imagine if your a Ploppy and you hit “5 High Limit Spins” and see “$5,000”. Then you happen to be the one that hits the “Zero” which occurs 1 in 999.

You then read the fine print…. “Pays on Average” lol
How pissed would you be?

Also, since each “free spin” cost a credit or 2, It’s possible for folks to run out of credits and are unable to spin their “High Limit Spins” off.
Talk about the ultimate AP-able slot!

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Ploppies generally don’t think In advance about a possible W2G. I can see someone from Canada changing what machine they would play since they hold 1/3rd, but for a normal US citizen, I can’t see your average ploppy thinking ahead about a W2G win to where they divert their play to a machine with a loophole.

Machines of this nature have been around for decades.