Once, I tried to catch the jackpot for fun. I chose the minimum bet size(2 sats) and won a small prize, only 10k sats. It's worth noting that I didn't use any strategies but just set the auto-bet option and hoped for luck. Overall, I think I got lucky that time, as it took me only ~2,5k tries to see the cherished 8888 on the screen. Of course, if I had known when I would get lucky, it would have made sense to use max bet to get 1 BTC in that case.

Yes, 8889 is pretty close! I didn't play for the jackpot (I just checked, and 600 satoshis were spent on the jackpot (easy to check, just click on personal stats and there is "spent on jackpot")). I think it's pretty hard to hit this jackpot, I thought about chasing that jackpot a bit more seriously several times, but I guess I didn't have the nerve for that & didn't want to spend money on that. The cost and prize and OK, but when I think about how possible is to hit 8888 it just starts to spin in my head.

Anyway, I wish you a lot of luck if you continue to chase that jackpot! When you win it share it, and you will probably be the first one who has done it!