Patent ID: 8474823

Claim:
A method for generating, funding, and distributing multiple jackpots in a game played by a plurality of players playing said game on a plurality of computers in communication with at least one central computer having a processor, said at least one central computer carrying out steps comprising: establishing a plurality of jackpots, each jackpot having at least one triggering condition independent from others of said plurality of jackpots; funding each jackpot from a portion of a plurality of pots corresponding to a plurality of hands played in said game; verifying, by said processor, that a triggering condition for one of said jackpots is met, wherein said triggering condition is a losing player's hand meeting or exceeding a threshold hand in said game; distributing at least a portion of said funds for one of said jackpots to a predetermined subset of said plurality of players; maintaining funds for others of said jackpots in said jackpots until triggering conditions for said others of said jackpots are met; and resetting said distributed jackpot.