Patent ID: 8128489
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming method for a gaming system comprising one or more gaming machines, the gaming method comprising: providing a first progressive jackpot and a second progressive jackpot for the one or more gaming machines, the first progressive jackpot being funded by a first percentage of each wager placed through the one or more gaming machines and the second progressive jackpot being funded by a second percentage of each wager placed through the one or more gaming machines; receiving a respective wager through one of the one or more gaming machines in the gaming system; after receiving the respective wager, displaying a number of game display elements at a display device associated with the one of the one or more gaming machines, the number of game display elements conveying a gaming result for the wager and having a plurality of possible states corresponding to different possible available outcomes of the gaming result; paying the first progressive jackpot through the one of the one or more gaming machines if the gaming result is a winning progressive jackpot result and if the respective wager is at least a first wager amount; paying the first progressive jackpot and the second progressive jackpot through the one of the one or more gaming machines if the gaming result is the winning progressive jackpot result and if the respective wager is at least a second wager amount, the second wager amount being larger than the first wager amount; and making a monetary payout through the one of the one or more gaming machines if the gaming result is a winning result which is not the winning progressive jackpot result.