A few months ago there was "big news" made in Vegas when the last of a bank of progressive slot machines at the MGM Grand was hit for more than two million dollars. It was the "Majestic Lions" slot machine.
MGM Grand elected to keep the progressive jackpot on a single slot machine until it was hit -- and it took many years for it to be hit.
At Caesars Palace there is a similar situation. There is one slot machine with a progressive jackpot waiting to be hit. And this machine and this jackpot have sat there for years -- I remember first playing this machine going back something like 8 years ago. The progressive built up from a bank of slots -- and then the bank of machines were removed and the progressive remains on this single machine.
It's a $1 slot but requires three coins to hit it.
I rarely see it played even though the jackpot is near a half million dollars. It is located in the slot machine area in the Palace Casino near where the Megabucks machines are.
According to Nevada gaming regulations, progressive jackpots "belong to the players" and the casinos can't keep them. The casinos have the option of leaving the jackpot till it's hit or moving the jackpot to other games.
You will recall that Harrah's Rincon recently moved the progressive jackpots from several slot machines to video poker progressive machines because it wanted to eliminate those particular slot games.
This photo was taken this past Sunday. I call this an "orphaned progressive" because the jackpot sits on just one lone machine until hit, similar to the MGM Majestic Lions which also was an orphaned progressive and sat on one machine for years.
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