Poker news tagged with 'bad beat jackpot'

Full House loses to Straight Flush, Twice, for $400,000 total pot

The partypoker LIVE series in the Bahamas is now in full swing. A plethora of high-stakes buy-in tournaments run round the clock from November 15 to 24, including the $250,000 Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas. With such extravagant tournaments, there's a high chance some outrageous stakes will appear somewhere.

Read more » Check Out this Worst Bad Beat ever to Happen in Live Poker, Pot Worth $400,000

For poker players and fans out there, bad beat jackpots are quite the rare occurrence, but it does happen. But what if you're supposed to win money from a bad beat jackpot and the casino refuses to pay you? This is the dilemma that a certain poker player was in, and this happened back in December 2017.

Read more » Bad Beat Jackpot Winner Avi Shamir to receive $62K Reward as Affirmed by NGCB

In most circumstances, if you lose a hand with quads, you'd be so downtrodden that you would secretly swear to yourself to never play poker ever again. However, for a small group on that fateful Tuesday (January 16), it was certainly a magical day - they experienced something so rare in the world of poker that for sure it calls for a bottle of Dom Perignon.

Read more » Record Breaking Bad Beat Poker Jackpot Won at Detroit Casino

A massive $270,00 Bad Beat Jackpot was awarded on Tuesday (February 11th) at Horseshoe Cincinnati's World Series of Poker room in Cincinnati, Ohio. Gary Costa (right side of the dealer in the picture) had his four of a kind 7's beaten by Michael Humphreys's (left side of the dealer) jack-high straight flush.

Read more » $270k Bad Beat Jackpot Hits in Ohio!

There's a six-figure jackpot up for grabs at Caesars Windsor (one of four casinos in the Detroit-Windsor area) at the moment. The bad beat jackpot in the poker room surpassed $207,000 last night, which means that it's the highest level it has reached since the casino started offering it in 2008.

Read more » Record Bad Beat Jackpot at Caesars Windsor

On Monday, Atlantic City's biggest bad beat jackpot ever was paid across Caesars Entrainment's 4 casinos. More than 400 players received $958 each from the $787,320 jackpot at the Caesars Atlantic City, Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, Showboat Atlantic City and Bally's Atlantic City.

Read more » 2 Bad Beat Jackpots Hit In Atlantic City!

Two days ago, some lucky players at a $1/$2 Limit Hold'em table got to share a bad beat jackpot of amazing $1 million on the Merge Gaming Network (Carbon Poker etc). Seventy percent of the jackpot was distributed to the table. The one who lost the hand, "Eulson", received amazing $355k, the winner of the hand, "123maryc", received over $177k, and the remaining players at the table got more than $25,000 each.

Read more » $1 Million Bad Beat Jackpot Awarded on Merge Network

Party Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot is now over $810,000 and still increasing. Normally, the Bad Beat Jackpot seldom gets over $400,000 before some "lucky" unlucky player claims it.

In order to qualify for party Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot, you will have to be seated around a Bad Beat Cash Tables and be so unlucky that you actually lose a hand holding at least four of a kind in 8's.
The jackpot amount that is paid out will be split; 50% to the "loser", 25% to the winner of the hand and 25% to the other players who were involved in the hand.

Party Poker collects $0.5 from the pot of every raked hand that is played on their Bad Beat Jackpot tables. This adds approximately $1,000 to the jackpot every hour.

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