After a day of messing around with some new scripts for a different project, I decided to take a look at the jackpot database to see how busy the jackpots were - and did a double-take.  Note the time of this post, however, as numbers do fluctuate according to time and markets.

The most interesting piece of data I came across was that, at this particular moment, Playtech’s jackpots have an increase rate which is more than all other jackpots combined - needless to say “all other” includes Microgaming and Cryptologic and all the other major software manufacturers.Back to the time of day - it’s just after work hours in Europe, so it should be no surprise that Playtech’s jackpots are rising more quickly.  In another 5 hours, the US work day will be over and I would expect Microgaming’s jackpot increase rate to go up significantly since most of their operators accept play from the US (Playtech operators do not accept play from the US).

At the moment even Jackpot Joy’s jackpots are growing quicker than Microgaming’s, and their primary target is the UK.  This does not even take into account that Jackpot Joy’s jackpots are denominated in pounds sterling… so for all intents and purposes JJ’s jackpots are growing more than twice as quick as Microgaming’s.

However - Microgaming’s Mega Moolah is worth $5.25 million, and when hit will be by far the largest ever online jackpot won…