Limits on the Double Up Feature

I emailed IGT this question but haven't received a response. Perhaps someone knows.

At Caesars Palace I was told the double up feature is automatically shut off on wins of $8,000 or more. On most machines, you have to enable the double up, but even if you do and you hit a pay of $8,000 the double up feature is canceled.

Is this industrywide or just something at Caesars Palace?

If you ever had a chance to play the double up feature on a pay of $8,000 or more what was the casino?

Quote: AlanMendelson

I emailed IGT this question but haven't received a response. Perhaps someone knows.

At Caesars Palace I was told the double up feature is automatically shut off on wins of $8,000 or more. On most machines, you have to enable the double up, but even if you do and you hit a pay of $8,000 the double up feature is canceled.

Is this industrywide or just something at Caesars Palace?

If you ever had a chance to play the double up feature on a pay of $8,000 or more what was the casino?

I don't know what the current state of double ups are nowadays, but it used to be you could keep going , I'm going to assume there was some actual limit to the number of times/amount you can do it up to but I think it was very very high.

The only double-up machine that I specifically recall would not allow a double up if the win would put the total over $10,000. I have seen others that may have been different, but that’s the only one I recall specifically. There was a promotion of interest to someone in which it might have become relevant, so that’s why I recall looking at that machine’s rules specifically.

EDIT: Thinking about it again, it might have been you couldn’t double up if you already HAD more than $10,000. It was a few years ago, so I suppose I shouldn’t make any absolute statements aside from the fact that $10,000 was in some way involved.

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The only double-up machine that I specifically recall would not allow a double up if the win would put the total over $10,000. I have seen others that may have been different, but that’s the only one I recall specifically. There was a promotion of interest to someone in which it might have become relevant, so that’s why I recall looking at that machine’s rules specifically.

EDIT: Thinking about it again, it might have been you couldn’t double up if you already HAD more than $10,000. It was a few years ago, so I suppose I shouldn’t make any absolute statements aside from the fact that $10,000 was in some way involved.

Your figure of $10,000 is in the neighborhood of the $8,000 figure at Caesars. Thanks.

There is an option when setting up the game to limit the double up option. Each casino can set it at the limit that they are willing to accept.

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There is an option when setting up the game to limit the double up option. Each casino can set it at the limit that they are willing to accept.

Thanks. Do you know of any examples or a range of settings?