Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Stories
Bad Beat Jackpot criteria and info
SwC Poker is proud to announce our Bad Beat Jackpot. Win big when you lose with Aces full of Kings or better in a qualifying situation:
- The Bad Beat Jackpot is in play on all Jackpot tables when at least 4 players are dealt into the hand.
- The Bad Beat Jackpot is activated when a player loses the main pot with AAAKK or better, and both the winner and loser have a qualifying hand.
- A qualifying Full House or Straight Flush must play both hole cards.
- A qualifying Four of a Kind must play a pocket pair.
The Bad Beat Jackpot can be won at our BBJ Hold'em tables, noted by the yellow background color and “Jackpot” table name. The rake taken in qualifying BBJ hands is 25% higher than our regular tables. This extra portion is contributed to the bitcoin poker jackpot.
The poker bad beat jackpot finally hit at the Motor City Casino. Turns out, it was also the largest bad beat jackpot in U.S. Just six players were involved in a hand on January 16, 2018. A few of my home game poker buddies were sitting at a table when the bad beat jackpot hit for something like 80K. I believe it was quad 10s vs. The best part of the story is my best buddy got up to take a piss right before they dealt the hand.
When hit, the jackpot pays out as follows:
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- 35% to the loser of the hand
- 20% to the winner of the hand
- 15% shared between all other players dealt into the hand
- 10% house fee
The remainder seeds the next jackpot. The initial jackpot was seeded with 100,000 chips. The current jackpot amount is shown at the top of the client, as well as on jackpot tables.
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The greatest “bad beat jackpot” in United States history just cushioned the blow of an absolutely rough hand of poker for a losing player and then some.
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At the Motor City Casino in Detroit this week, a player who had four 3s lost to another who had four Queens, which is just the worst:
But because there was a “bad beat jackpot” in the casino, the losing player won a share of over $1 million. MLive.com explained how that worked:
At the Motor City Casino, in Texas Hold ’em poker, if a player hits any four of a kind and is beaten by another player’s four of a kind, they hit the bad beat jackpot. Both players must have pocket pairs. The four of a kind must only be beaten by another four of a kind. A straight flush only wins them the much smaller bad beat jackpot. The rules are slightly different at the MGM Grand Detroit and Greektown. The bad beat jackpot can be hit if a player’s four of a kind loses to a straight flush. That makes it slightly easier to win. The odds of hitting either are astronomical, but it does happen.
Many other poker rooms offer the jackpots, which gather money over time, and the majority of the cash in the pot (40 percent in this case, good for over $427,000 here) goes to the loser. The winning hand gets 20 percent, and the rest of the table (this time, it was six players) split the rest.
So in this case, it really did pay to lose.