Amusement devices and games involving progressive jackpots

An apparatus comprising:

• a tangible machine readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
• determining that a first player has played a game;
• determining a contribution to a first jackpot based on the play of the game by the first player;
• preventing access to the jackpot by a plurality of second players playing game;
• determining that the first jackpot has been won by the first player based on an action related to the first player;
• in response to determining that the first jackpot has been won, presenting, to the first player, a choice between accepting a payout of an award for winning the jackpot and access to a second jackpot;
• receiving a selection of the access to the second jackpot from the first player;
• and
• in response to receiving the selection, providing access to the second jackpot to the second player.