Patent ID: 9582964
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A gaming system comprising at least one gaming machine, said at least one gaming machine having a credit input mechanism configured to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value for establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable based at least on wagering activity, and a player interface configured to receive one of a plurality of wager options, providing a game in which a plurality of symbols are presented on a display and if a winning combination occurs in the presented plurality of symbols, the gaming machine awards an award, the gaming system comprising: an electronic processing system comprising at least one jackpot controller configured to, in accord with having established the credit balance via the credit input mechanism of the at least one gaming machine receiving the physical item,: maintain a plurality of jackpot prizes that can be won through play of said at least one gaming machine, said jackpot prizes being funded by respective ones of a plurality of progressive pools dependent on said play and the wager option received at the at least one gaming machine, the wager options comprising n distinct wager options for which the probability of winning a jackpot prize is different, resulting in differences in a return-to-player between the wager options, and associate each wager option with one of the jackpot prizes, each of said distinct wager options being associated with at least one progressive pool; monitor for an occurrence of a jackpot winning outcome, and on the occurrence of the jackpot winning outcome, associate the occurrence of the jackpot winning outcome with the received one of said wager options and pay the jackpot prize associated with the received one of said wager options; and determine, for each of the jackpot prizes, a fixed jackpot amount that cannot be varied once initially seeded so as to reduce the differences in the return-to-player between the wager options.