Very often, even though they may come from places miles apart and play on different gambling sites, they are playing together or competing for the same progressive jackpot. All thanks to online gambling networks.

Striving to deliver their clients the best gaming experience, online casino and poker operators often choose to buy a license from one of the major online gambling software developers, joining their networks. In practice this means that visiting online casinos and poker sites belonging to one network players can find similar wide range of high quality games with new exciting releases every month.

Networks share not only games, but often also players, and whats more exciting   jackpot pools. Playing in a casino belonging to a network you may find yourself playing against clients of another online casino. It can make the game more interesting and in case of many table games it ensures that you will always find someone to play a game of your favourite variant of poker.

Many slot machines in various casinos within a network are connected to the same jackpot pool, which means that players on each of the gaming sites can contribute to the progressive pool which this way can reach really mind-blowing sums. It also means that players in each of the casinos have equal chance to hit the jackpot.

Poker players also have a chance of winning a jackpot. One way is to hit a bad beat jackpot that is paid when a very good hand looses against an even better one. In such case the jackpot is usually shared between the players at the poker table with the one who lost in the bad beat receiving the biggest prize. Jackpots in poker can also be hit when a player gets a straight flush or another very good poker hand. This way you can not only win the pot, but also a truly life-changing sum.

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