Déjà Vu at Playground as Straight Flush Tops Straight Flush in Monster Bad Beat

There’s been yet one more super-sized Unhealthy Beat Jackpot at Playground Poker Membership in Canada, the place a straight flush over straight flush triggered a monster CAD $758,785 payout on the Montreal venue.

Remarkably, it’s the second time in simply over three months that such a hand has produced a jackpot on the Quebec card room, which is at the moment internet hosting the WPT World Winter Basic. Again in October, an nearly equivalent straight flush over straight flush situation led to a CAD $1.6 million payout, roughly $1.14 million USD.

The newest hand, which performed out on January 22, sparked wild celebrations throughout the room, with champagne and ticker tape raining down on an excited crowd of gamers who’d scored a free payday.

Each Gamers Make Monsters

Playground is not any stranger to large Unhealthy Beat Jackpots, having hosted the world-record CAD $2.6 million payout again in August 2023. On that event, quads fell to a straight flush in a $1/$2 NLHE money sport, however final Thursday’s hand ranks simply as excessive when it comes to sheer craziness.

To qualify for the unhealthy beat jackpot at Playground, gamers should be capable of make the hand utilizing their two gap playing cards, which fortunately was the case on this occasion, with the lion’s share of CAD $758,785 (~USD $553,911) dwell for the fortunate loser.

Two gamers, one named Tsz and the opposite Vineet, would flip 9♥10♥ and 4♥5♥ on a board of A♦Ok♥7♥6♥8♥ to provide each gamers a outstanding straight flush, though Tsz’s was superior.

Regardless of the truth that Vineet ran right into a brutal cooler, it is unlikely he’ll thoughts an excessive amount of because the loser of the hand takes the most important share of the prize in Playground’s guidelines, round CAD $303,514 or 40% of the entire quantity.

In the meantime, Tsz walked away with CAD $151,757, representing 20% of the jackpot, whereas one other 20% was shared among the many different gamers on the desk and the remaining 20% was distributed throughout all different gamers within the membership on the time.

Playground has now reset its Unhealthy Beat Jackpot counter, with the present complete standing at simply over CAD $153,000 on the time of writing.

And when you definitely would not complain about hitting that, the poker site has identified that gamers could also be extra enticed by the present Omaha Unhealthy Beat Jackpot, which stands at simply over $763,000 compared.

Images courtesy of Playground Poker Room.

Eliot Thomas is an Editor at PokerNews, specializing in on line casino and poker protection. He has reported on main occasions all over the world, together with the World Collection of Poker, European Poker Tour, and Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection.