Here is a summary of the Jai-5 jackpot win rates, streaks, and largest payoffs for the 2019 and 2020 seasons through August 16, 2020:

2019 season (132 total events, Jai-5 started on Aug 14 at the Wednesday Mat):

Jai-5 Jackpot paid to a single winner 34 of 132 occurrences, thus 25.8% win rate

2020 season (86 total events, Note that for several performances the wager was not offered):

Jai-5 Jackpot paid to a single winner 27 of 86 occurrences, thus 31.4% win rate

Overall Magic City Jai-5 stats since inception are 61 jackpot winners in 218 occurrences, which is a 28% win rate.

The higher win rate for the 2020 season is attributed to more Jai-5 events which consisted of only singles games. Jai-alai handicapping of singles games are historically not as difficult to handicap as doubles games. The typical Jai-5 sequence at Magic City Jai-alai generally includes 3-doubles games which are harder to handicap as teams are more evenly matched for the doubles game tournaments (the same teams are used throughout a doubles tournament). Due to lack of players during part of the 2020 season, doubles games were eliminated from all games during the performance. During that period, there were two different streaks where the Jai-5 jackpot was paid to a single winner for five consecutive performances. The longest streak of consecutive jackpot payouts during the 2019 season was three and occurred once.

The largest Jai-5 payoff for the 2019 season was $12,220.00 on Wednesday evening, November 13 (this is the current record high payout). There were a record twelve consecutive performances from November 2, Saturday evening performance through the November 13, Wednesday matinee performance where there was no single jackpot winner, which led to building up the Jai-5 jackpot for the record payout.

The largest Jai-5 payoff so far during the 2020 season was $7,014.80 for the Saturday 8-pm performance on August 1.