Bad Beat Jackpot Hits Twice

Wednesday, 25 July 2007

The online poker bad beat jackpot at Absolute Poker has paid out again, and again. Twice in five hours is a lot of consolation.
It works like this: if anything over quad 7’s loses to a bigger hand, the players win the ‘Bad Beat Jackpot’, though

The online poker bad beat jackpot at Absolute Poker has paid out again, and again. Twice in five hours is a lot of consolation.
It works like this: if anything over quad 7’s loses to a bigger hand, the players win the ‘Bad Beat Jackpot’, though some of the money rolls into the next Jackpot pool.
First it was JOE JETS’ quad 9s that ran into SHORT_SHYT's quad Jacks but paying $97,650.85, then in an even bigger badness of bad beat, JBAND277's quad 10s hit GOLFCOFFEY's quad Jacks for $26,890.35.
David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker. 'We handed out nearly $250,000 between the two tables last Saturday and we're gearing up to make even more people very rich.'
There was some initial scepticism in the industry about the bad beat jackpot. How can fours over fours be a bad beat? A bad beat is pocket aces cracked by 222 as trips on the river by some donkey holding undercards 8 2 off suit and calling all the raises... There are so many bad beats out there you trip over blogs whining about them (general note: bad beats are best left unspoken). But when it happens to you, quads cracking quads is baaad. Did I ever tell you about the time when...
As the bad beat jackpot game at online poker room Absolute Poker keeps paying out, opinions changing.



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