Quite simply, if the bank is broken during the first bonus game, the cards are reshuffled and there's another chance to break the bank.[/quote]
Yeah, that would make the second half utterly lame. Unless there was a second breaking, and 1) I'm not going to bet the look and feel of my show on the one time in 1,000 that happens, and 2) by definition (assuming the same climbing jackpot) it would always be for less (and likely a lot less) than the first one was...which looks lame.
Under those conditions, yes, you're right. It's kinda like with Play the Percentages jackpot bonus for guessing a percentage on the nose. It climbed all the way up to $26,000 and it was finally hit. Then they played the bonus game for significantly less, and even Geoff pointed out that the bonus game seemed anti-climactic.