Case Jackpot

One pot is open at a time. Put cases into it, up to ten at a time: each is bought at its price. What you paid for your cases is your share of the pot, and your share is your chance.

When a second player comes in, a clock of 120 seconds starts. It does not restart when somebody adds more. When it runs out the pot closes and one player is drawn, by share.

Every case in the pot is then opened for that player, each by its own printed odds, the cheapest cases first and ten at a time. The winner is paid what the cases gave: as prizes to keep, or to the balance if that is how their prizes are paid.

The house takes no share of the pot. Its edge is the cases' own: on average the cases give back about 96% of what was paid for them, and that is what a pot returns on average, whoever wins it.

While you are the only player and no clock is running, you can take your cases back for what you paid. If nobody else comes in for 30 minutes they are returned. Once a second player is in, they stay in the pot.

A pot holds at most 100 cases, 30 from one player. All of a pot's cases together must not be able to give more than the site's $250,000 maximum payout: an entry that would pass it is refused. A case with a prize above that maximum is not taken into a pot.