Winning online Slots jackpots - is it a Slottery?

What are the odds of winning the progresive jackpot?

What are the odds of winning an online Slots progressive jackpot? What are the chances of you winning the online Slots bonus games and the jackpots? People will tell you that the odds of you winning online Slots jackpots are long but how can you win something unless you are taking part?

The more lottery tickets you buy the better your chances of winning EL Gordo. The more you spin it the better your chances are that you will win it.

Online Slots jackpots - reel odd probability

You will read that it makes no difference how many times you play an online Slots progressive jackpot it does not effect the odds of you winning it. You will be told you are as likely to win the online Slots progressive jackpot with your first spin as with your 1,000th spin. That may be true of odds but not of probability. Progressive jackpots do not live or are won by online Slots players in a a mathematical theory universe, they are won by players in this reel universe, your reel life.

The odds of winning the progrssive jackpot for each individual spin are the same but the fact that you have made 1 more spin has changed your reel probability of winning it. This also applies to spinning in the online Slots bonus games where you can win a fortune in free bonus spins.

If the odds are 1 in 50 that you win the online Slots jackpot prize with each spin but you are making YOUR second spin then your probability is now reduced. You have already used up one of those 50 spins. In theory your odds of winning the jackpot are still 1 in 50 but in reelity your probability is now 1 in 49.

Is probability a Slottery?

If you have made 30 spins and have been unlucky and not hit the jackpot would you rather turn back time and start all over again, erasing those spins from history, or, would you want to carry on and make your 31st spin?