Abstract: A gaming system which provides a player the opportunity to win one or more awards based on the final value of an increasing award pool. Such opportunities may take the form of a player placed side bet on a predicted final amount of an award pool which increases different amounts at different points in time. Such opportunities may take the form of enabling a player to make one or more inputs regarding a predicted final amount of an award pool which increases different amounts at different points in time. If the player's predictive value of the final amount of the award pool corresponds with the actual value of the final amount of the award pool, the gaming system provides one or more awards to the player.