Many fans of online casinos and progressive slots within the United States in particular have been complaining of late about a deep and depressing dry spell that the jackpots had run into recently. The celebrations have been few and far between for American players.Hopefully this will be changing in a big way soon if Representative Barney Frank is able to succeed in pushing his new proposed legislation through Congress, but few online casino sites are willing to count their chickens before they hatch. This means that there are still plenty of casino sites out there on the market that are reluctant - or they simply outright refuse - to permit American players to have fun and place bets on their site.

Of course, this situation could all be resolved sometime later on this fall. In the meantime, we can take this moment to celebrate a departure from said dry spell as a jackpot for $17,344 was hit while a player was deeply engaged in going for the glory at Caribbean Poker. For online casinos that are powered by Real Time Gaming that carry this widely popular game, this is a huge boost to the hope of many internet casino players in America who, from time to time, think that they have basically been blacklisted from any chances of being able to score a super sweet and highly profitable progressive slots jackpot.

Online casinos, incidentally, benefit greatly from these sorts of developments since their player traffic always gets a boost in the immediate aftermath as everyone wants to test fate and try their luck to see if it could possibly happen another time.