Progressive impact

A moderator on the Winneronline message board did some arithmetic this week to produce an interesting informal indication of the impact on progressive jackpots of barring U.S. players.

The popular progressive Millionaire's Club is provided across Cryptologic powered online casinos and currently stands at approximately $4.6 million. But Cryptologic was among the first of the online gambling companies to ban US players when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act passed in the USA recently, and the moderator measured the growth in the jackpot from that date to assess it's impact.

He found that until the UIGEA, the jackpot was growing at about $11 000/day, but that since then it is about 6 000/day, suggesting that US players could have accounted for as much as 45 percent of the action.