PartyPoker Doles Out Record Milllion Dollar Bad Beat Jackpot
On Thursday, August 14, 2008 a player going by the username Judith75 took down PartyPoker.com’s biggest Bad Beat Jackpot ever, earning her table an unevenly split share of a whopping $1,013,361.63. For not even winning the hand!
Judith75 earned her table-mates the world record-breaking PartyPoker bad beat jackpot with four-of-a-kind 9s, which lost to player Hiyall’s winning royal flush.
For their efforts:
• Hiyall won $177,341.79 of the jackpot
• Judith57 won $354,683,57 of the jackpot
• And the rest of the players at the table won $22,167.72 each
Now get this! It was only a $0.50/$1 table with a pot value of a measley $24.
Until then, the record Bad Beat Jackpot was previously $922,000, still sweet but no million dollars, that’s for sure.
Bad Beat Jackpots give players with certain exceptional poker hands (such as a straight flush) who then lose the pot to a better hand, an opportunity to still walk away from the table with money. It’s one more great way most online poker sites give players to win money, besdies just winning tournaments and individual pots. .