Mohegan Sun Blackjack Progressive Jackpot
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- Mohegan Sun Blackjack Progressive Jackpot
Blazing 7’s Blackjack Jackpot reaches $748,000! WILKES-BARRE, PA (August 26, 2016) – The beautiful gaming floor at Mohegan Sun Pocono boasts more than 91 live table games, 2,300 slot machines, electronic table games and now features the Blazing 777 Blackjack Progressive, a new and exciting optional blackjack progressive bet that is based on. A guest at Mohegan Sun Pocono in Plains Township recently won the $783,000 jackpot on Blazing 7's. Blazing 777 Blackjack Progressive is a new game based on sevens.
What would you do with an extra $783k in your pocket? That’s the question one very lucky patron of Pennsylvania’s Mohegan Sun Pocono is asking themselves this week. On Saturday, August 27, just one day after it was announced that the casino had broken the record for the highest progressive jackpot in state history, the Blazing 777 Progressive Blackjack tables paid out $783,000.
News of the immense jackpot reached interactive media outlets on Friday, when it was reported the PA casino’s progressive blackjack table had hit an all-time high of $748,000. That represented the highest progressive jackpot Pennsylvania has seen since it opened it’s first casino in 2006, followed by the installment of table games in 2010.
Then on Sunday, just one minute past midnight, Mohegan Sun Pocono made the official announcement on Facebook:
“IT HAPPENED
Congrats to the lucky guest that hit the $783,000 progressive jackpot on Blazing 777 Blackjack Saturday night!!!”
The winner’s name has not been revealed, ostensibly choosing to remain anonymous. But there’s little doubt the lucky winner knew exactly what they were doing – and how high the value of that progressive blackjack side bet was – when placing the extra $5 on the table.
How Progressive Blackjack Really Works
While a throng of posts came in congratulating the lucky winner on the casino’s Facebook page, a number of negative comments received a lot more attention. Some guests complained via the social media site that Mohegan Sun will tighten up now on its payouts, arguing they’ll have to “recoup that win” before anymore big jackpots are likely to strike. But that’s not actually how progressives work.
By definition, a progressive jackpot is made up of past wagers made by gamblers on that specific game. When a progressive is struck, the casino doesn’t have to pull money out of its pocket to pay it out. That money already exists, and it didn’t even come from the casino in the first place.
In the case of the PA casino’s Blazing 777 Progressive Blackjack, an optional side bet of $5 is made by any player who wishes to wager on a chance to win the progressive jackpot. When that bet doesn’t win – and they rarely do, of course – that bet gets added to the progressive prize pool.
In order for the side bet to pay off, a player who has opted to make such a wager must be dealt at least one 7 in their first two cards. That grants a 2-to-1 payout. If the player is dealt a pair of 7’s, the payout is 25-to-1. Should the dealer also receive a 7 as their up-card, the payout jumps to 200-to-1, unless all of those 7’s happen to be the same color, in which case it jumps even more to 500-to-1.
Releasing the progressive requires all three of those 7’s to be suited. If they are suited in Diamonds, the full progressive is awarded – as was the case for last weekend’s lucky winner. If they are all Clubs, Spades or Hearts, only 10% of the progressive jackpot is paid out.
About Mohegan Sun Pocono
Mohegan Sun Pocono (formerly Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs) on Highway 315 in Plains Township, PA was the very first slots casino to open its doors in the state in November 2006. It’s undergone multiple expansions since then, now hosting over 2,300 slot machines and – thanks to then-Governor Ed Rendell’s passage of a table games bill in 2010 – 91 live dealer tables and a multitude of electronic table games, including the recently introduced Blazing 777 Progressive Blackjack.
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The possibility of of counting this side bet was brought up as it should be with any new change. We know that blackjacks are expected as the count rises but is it enough for me to cough up five bucks? That's 20% of my base bet many times.
Players might benefit by knowing the true cost of the bet. I play heads up whenever I can with very fast dealers. Very fast. Fast enough to get in 200 hands an hour. If I always play the side bet that's $1000 an hour. Statistically, the dealer should get nine blackjacks. That would, at the very least, return $225 to me. What about the other $775? How much should I expect to get back on average from a variety of winning hands?
This bet is it's own best advertiser. All it takes is a couple of hits and the players are hooked. It's fun to play. The dealers and pits are hyping it, shamelessly gushing about how great it is. I have to wonder where all this unbridled enthusiasm was when Free Bet was installed. What a difference a year makes.
Mohegan Sun crews are finishing up the installs in the Casino of the Wind this morning and have begun the first high limit pit, the one next to Bow & Arrow bar. The progressive passed $70,000 this morning. I'm told that 75 cents out of every $5 bet goes to the progressive jackpot.
15% is about right for a progressive where the majority of payouts come from the tray.
I guess if counting becomes an issue, they could start taking all payouts from the jackpot, and start putting 60-75% up.
| Hand | Payout | Freq | Prob | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RF Diam 100% | 50,000.00 | 3,888 | 0.0000016732 | 0.083660623245 |
| RF 10% | 5,000.00 | 11,664 | 0.0000050196 | 0.025098186974 |
| Trips | 750 | 1,165,824 | 0.0005017159 | 0.376286892108 |
| Straight | 500 | 979,776 | 0.0004216495 | 0.210824770578 |
| Flush | 400 | 1,614,528 | 0.0006948170 | 0.277926787504 |
| 2 Pair | 300 | 1,204,416 | 0.0005183240 | 0.155497211739 |
| Same Color | 100 | 11,581,056 | 0.0049839422 | 0.498394219547 |
| Pair | 75 | 30,792,960 | 0.0132518427 | 0.993888204154 |
| Dealer BJ | 25 | 62,995,968 | 0.0271105038 | 0.677762595785 |
| Lose | 0 | 2,213,323,740 | 0.9525105120 | 0.000000000000 |
| Totals | 2,323,673,820 | 3.299339491633 |
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Mohegan Sun Blackjack Progressive Jackpot Results
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Great work miplet, thanks for the effort. However, as previously pointed out in this thread the initial bet is collected before the deal and not returned, so the payout for non-RF wins should be decreased by $5.
Hmmm... If you don't play the progressive and someone hits an RF payout, I wonder if you have to sit there mid-hand until the payout is made. You know it's going to take a while.
I think it's an excellent side bet and would give it a try at my place if everything fell together. I would however adjust the pay table to drop to the house edge to about 20-25%. Probably reducing the RF payouts and bumping up one of the lower level payments a little.
I think the angle is to offer the high jackpot and the average player will accept the terrible odds in the vein of Powerball strategy. Like all side bets, this one isn't aimed at the audience of this forum. IMHOMohegan Sun Blackjack Progressive Jackpot Odds
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Great work miplet, thanks for the effort. However, as previously pointed out in this thread the initial bet is collected before the deal and not returned, so the payout for non-RF wins should be decreased by $5.
Hmmm... If you don't play the progressive and someone hits an RF payout, I wonder if you have to sit there mid-hand until the payout is made. You know it's going to take a while.
Wouldn't they have to verify the decks, that is count 312 cards? What if one or two were missing?
Can we push the progressive by repeatedly tapping the red spot in between hands? They wouldn't be so stupid, those same folks who invented 'Triple Down', would they?
As far as training is concerned, I saw floors last Friday explaining it to relief dealers as they came onto the table, and one of them told me that 'as usual', they had not told anyone about it until they walked onto the floor and saw it. But that could just be the usual employee griping that goes on everywhere.
There seems to be more drinking of the KoolAid by the dealers this time than with FreeBet, but it's not as much of an interruption of their normal routine as FreeBet was, and it's a simpler game to manage since it only comes into play with a dealer blackjack.
So how do they apply the progressive? I saw the odometer roll over 95K last night, and another poster said it topped 100K today. But how do they know in real time the total bet on the game, so as to roll the progressive in relation to that, or do they just spin the thing at a fixed rate from the starting $50K? Dealers were often putting cards on top of the sensor, causing the light to come on, all night last night, and honestly I never saw anyone, not even one, bet the silly thing.
Can we push the progressive by repeatedly tapping the red spot in between hands? They wouldn't be so stupid, those same folks who invented 'Triple Down', would they?
As far as training is concerned, I saw floors last Friday explaining it to relief dealers as they came onto the table, and one of them told me that 'as usual', they had not told anyone about it until they walked onto the floor and saw it. But that could just be the usual employee griping that goes on everywhere.
There seems to be more drinking of the KoolAid by the dealers this time than with FreeBet, but it's not as much of an interruption of their normal routine as FreeBet was, and it's a simpler game to manage since it only comes into play with a dealer blackjack.
The progressive started at $50,000 and gets reset there when it hits. The royal flush in the other three suits pays 10% of the progressive so that would come off the meter? All the tables are connected. If no one at your table is playing, the total can still increase.
You can touch the sensors all you want. It won't make a difference because the dealer locks in the bets by using the device in the tray. It must have a name but I'll be darned if I know. Anybody? Barring a malfunction there should be no mistakes on who played the bet and who didn't.
They are really pushing this game. Unlike the unfortunate circumstances with Free Bet, bad mouthing this game by employees will not be tolerated.