Massive Bad Beat Jackpots Hit at Three Poker Rooms in Same Week

Three six-figure dangerous beat jackpots. Three separate North American poker rooms. All inside the identical week.

Dropping to a uncommon cooler wasn’t so uncommon the previous week within the low-stakes dwell money recreation streets. Two of the three progressive jackpots hit in Canada, and the third and most up-to-date one in Florida.

The most important Dangerous Beat Jackpots Hit in Canada

If it looks like all the most important dangerous beat jackpots on the earth hit in Canada, it is as a result of they do. On Feb. 28 on the On line casino Du Lac-Leamy in Quebec, Canada, a CAD $550,062 (roughly $405,000) dangerous beat jackpot hit in a $1/$3 no-limit maintain’em recreation.

One participant moved all in preflop with pocket aces towards pocket kings. The board ran out Ok♠Ok♦5♠A♥A♠, giving each gamers quads. Pocket kings, the dropping participant, obtained roughly $220,000, 40% of the jackpot. Pocket aces took dwelling 20% of the pot, round $110,000, whereas the remaining six gamers within the recreation all obtained $18,000 a bit, and the remainder of the pot went to all different seated gamers within the room. The dangerous beat jackpot reset to $250,000, with aces filled with kings dropping because the minimal qualifier.

Lac-Leamy, final April, was dwelling to the second-largest poker dangerous beat jackpot ever — CAD $2.5 million ($1.81 million USD).

The most important dwell poker dangerous beat jackpot ever — CAD $2.6 million — additionally occurred in Quebec at Playground. That very same well-liked card room, set to play host to the World Sequence of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) later this month, was dwelling to a smaller however nonetheless huge jackpot earlier this week.

Two gamers at Playground set off the most important Omaha dangerous beat jackpot in historical past — CAD $924,780 — when a king-high straight flush trumped a jack-high straight flush in a $2/$5 PLO5 recreation. The dropping hand was paid roughly $370,000 and the successful hand obtained round $185,000. All others on the desk collected simply over $30,000 every.

Six-Determine Cooler Hits at Florida Poker Room

Canada is not the one nation in North America with massive dangerous beat jackpots. Florida’s bestbet Jacksonville, one of many prime card rooms within the U.S., noticed a $188,383 jackpot pop on March 2.

A hand in a $2/$2 no-limit maintain’em recreation noticed one participant with 9♦9♠ hit quads on a board of 6♣7♣9♥8♣9♣. However that monster hand was no good, because the participant was up towards a straight flush — J♣9♣.

The participant with quads, nonetheless, felt significantly better after realizing he’d received $94,191, half the progressive jackpot, and the participant who received the hand took dwelling $47,095. Desk share was value $9,419 a bit. The no-limit maintain’em jackpot has been reset and, as of Saturday, was simply over $22,500.

The Jacksonville card room is a well-liked vacation spot for the World Poker Tour (WPT) and a few of the juiciest money video games within the Sunshine State.