39 s hand is higher according to the customary poker hand ranking priority player a wins the pot wagered on the five card stud game as a consolation however player b receives a payoff amount from the progressive jackpot for his full house e g 25 tokens player a does not receive a payoff from the progressive jackpot because he already has won the pot from the regular five card stud game thus under this alternative embodiment a player only receives a payoff from the progressive jackpot if the player both has a hand of the preselected type and loses to a higher hand in the game being played another modification would have the two players sharing in the progressive jackpot amount the player with the preselected type of hand receiving a percentage of the progressive jackpot amount and the player with the higher poker hand receiving the rest of the progressive jackpot amount with reference to the example above player b would receive 80 of the progressive jackpot amount for a full house and player a would receive 20 of the progressive jackpot amount for a full house fig3 shows in block diagram form the operation of the present invention each playing location has a coin a acceptor 210 into which a player places a gaming token in order to be eligible for the progressive jackpot amount when all players have had sufficient time to decide whether to participate in the progressive jackpot for that hand the dealer activates.