A nasty beat jackpot price greater than a quarter-million hit at Foxwoods, a legendary poker site in Connecticut.
The hand, in a $1/$3 no-limit maintain’em money recreation, noticed two gamers take house a considerable sum of money. It is uncommon for dangerous beat jackpots in the US to run so excessive.
Quads Pay Off
One participant was all in with pocket eights and hit quads. However that low-probability hand was no good as a result of one other participant, who had pocket kings, additionally hit quads.
Shedding with quads is often soul-crushing to a poker participant, however not this time. The Foxwoods On line casino Resort dangerous beat jackpot is ready off when quad eights are overwhelmed, as long as the gamers concerned play each gap playing cards.
That meant the dropping participant turned out to be the successful participant in an enormous approach, taking house $114,993, the most important share (40%) of the $287,481 progressive jackpot. The participant who received the hand collected $57,496 (20%), and the opposite 4 gamers on the desk when the loopy hand hit every acquired $28,748. The remaining was break up amongst all the opposite gamers within the room.
The dangerous beat jackpot reset and was at just some bucks beneath $130,000 as of July 25. Foxwoods, house to 54 card tables and quite a few main poker occasions, additionally has a seven card stud jackpot, which is at the moment over $105,000.
The current dangerous beat is way from the most important in U.S. historical past, nevertheless it was among the many greatest over the previous 12 months. A $290,000 dangerous beat jackpot hit at The Lodge Card Membership close to Austin in February, the most important in Texas historical past.
Rivers On line casino in Pittsburgh was the positioning for the most important dangerous beat jackpot in U.S. historical past — $1.2 million — in August 2022. The biggest jackpot wherever passed off at Playground in Quebec, Canada in August 2023 when quad 10’s misplaced to a straight flush for a CAD $2.6 million (USD $1.9 million) progressive.
Playground has been the spot for lots of the greatest BBJ’s ever, together with the second greatest ($1.81 million), hitting again in April. One other monster dangerous beat cracked earlier this month on the identical Canadian card room for $1.6 million.
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