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Forget the mega-jackpots, the variance is too high.

Take a slot like "Cherry Pie". Certain combinations would give you a cherry on a pie display. After a certain amount of cherries, you get a slice. Fill all the slices and you get about a $100 to $200 jackpot.

So just stroll down the line of Cherry Pie machines and find one that someone has left with only 2 or 3 cherries left to go to fill the pie. $20 or $30 dollars later, Bingo! A $200 filled pie mini-jackpot. Rinse and repeat.

Of course, Cherry Pie is now on it's third generation chip, the cherries are harder to get, and the pie jackpot is more variable and lower.

Piggy Bankin' was another mini-progressive individual machine jackpot. BOOM! was a gold mine when you found one that someone had left with 45 firecrackers on it.

These machines were slowly replaced or tightened up. Now slot idiot addicts seem to like the video game like features, and the little progressive machines have gone by the way side.