The Great Super Jackpot Casino Search
By Jerry Whittaker
The largest casino jackpot ever is said to have been a monumental $93, 7 million scoop in a Vegas land based casino. Online casino detractors claim that wins such as these separate the men from the boys and make online casino play no more than casual arcade entertainment to be used to pass the time between “real” casino excursions. Almost a real casino simulator if you will. Is this the case and can online casino play ever be as rewarding as the traditional live casino version? Let’s consider the facts.
The first point one needs to keep in mind if this thorny issue is to be debated fairly is the fact that, although the Vegas monster win trumps anything ever seen online, it is very much the exception and the average big casino jackpot is a whole lot smaller. Wins like that are certainly not the norm and can’t be used to define the average player’s jackpot casino experience.
With this in mind consider the fact that the average cost of any casino visit is exponentially higher than a quick login in your living room. This allows for more games quicker than can be had in any live casino. No travelling, no accommodation, no meals – all of these saving translate to better value for money from any win you make.
Online casino wins are also by no means puny. Slots jackpots of $100,000 plus are won so frequently in online casinos that they don’t even raise an eyebrow anymore with wins of $800,000 and upwards being common. This may not seem like much when compared to $93 million, but then again, even million dollar wins are big coupes in any casino and occur with monotonous frequency online.
The 200lb Bluefish that tows a hapless angler around the bay in his dinghy for 6 hours may be a once in a lifetime trophy but is in no way indicative of the norm for the species. As a species casino jackpots of $90 very seldom end up on den walls next to last years Moose and when you look at what the average big live casino jackpot is then online gaming certainly compares very well.
The fact that more games can be played faster online than at any land based casino and that the opportunity to do so occurs more frequently, starts to actually swing the odds the other way in fact and I’m almost prepared to stick my neck out and say that online play may just pip live casino action to the post in the jackpot casino stakes.
No matter which side of the battle line you stand on, a $250,000 win on an online Poker game is a universe away from the handful or quarters that the average arcade game will dump in your hands and for live casino fans to compare the two with each other starts to sound just a little like sour grapes!
