Bad Beat Poker Jackpot

4/11/2022

Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Rules
Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Rules
Bad Beat Poker Jackpot
Bad Beat Poker Jackpot

A Bad Beat Jackpot is a progressive type of jackpot that is often attached to one specific poker game, the idea behind this jackpot is that if one of the strongest poker hands available gets beaten by an even stronger one such as four Aces getting beaten by a Royal Flush at a live poker table, then the player who lost out to the Royal Flush hand, and occasionally every other players involved. Bad Beat Jackpot. Participation / Qualification: To qualify for the BBJ the BBJ is only available on specially designated tables available under the 'Cash Game' tab. 2 or more players must be dealt into the hand. Players sitting out do not qualify for the jackpot. Players which folded without paying blinds do. The contribution will only be taken from Bad Beat Jackpot tables. The Bad Beat is only available on hands where 4 or more players are dealt into the hand. The hand must rake a total of 1 big blind to qualify. Both hole cards must be included in the Bad beat hand, as well as in the winning hand. The Bad Beat Jackpot will be divided among the.

In poker, bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player with what appear to be strong cards nevertheless loses. It most often occurs where one player bets the clearly stronger hand and their opponent makes a mathematically poor call that wins with any subequent dealing to complete the hand.

In pure mathematical terms a one-outer can be considered a pure bad beat, however there is no consensus however among poker players as to what else exactly constitutes a bad beat and often players will disagree about whether a particular hand was a bad beat. A few examples are: quads over full house, quads over quads, straight flush over quads, small full house vs. bigger full house or better.

Types of bad beats[edit]

Any hand that looked like a favorite to win can end up losing as more cards are dealt (with the nuts being the exception), but bad beats usually involve one of two not mutually exclusive scenarios:

The player who wins on a bad beat is rewarded for mathematically unsound play. Calling a bet despite having neither the best hand nor the right pot odds or implied odds to call, then winning anyway, is characteristic of this type of bad beat. It can also involve the inferior hand catching running cards when it requires two cards in a row to come from behind to win the pot. For example, catching cards on both the turn and the river in Texas hold 'em that complete a straight or flush.
A very strong hand loses to an even stronger one, better known as 'cooler'. This type of beat occurs with some frequency in movies. In the films The Cincinnati Kid and Casino Royale, The Kid and Le Chiffre each lose with a full house to a straight flush. In this situation, it is possible that both players have played their cards well, and avoiding the bad beat could not have been achieved without committing a mistake.

Reacting to bad beats[edit]

A bad beat can be a profound psychological blow, and can easily lead to a player going on tilt. Professional player Phil Hellmuth, among others, is notorious for his pronounced reactions to bad beats. However, suffering a bad beat means that the losing player was 'getting the money in good' and in most instances would win by playing the same hand the same way. Thus, the more stoic poker players accept bad beats as an unpleasant but necessary drawback to a tactic that works the vast majority of the time.

Bad beats online[edit]

In online poker rooms, bad beats often lead to accusations that the random number generator is 'rigged', even though such beats also occur in offline games. Many online poker rooms post statistical data to demonstrate the randomness of the hands generated.^[1] In online poker games players have an opportunity to play in 'bad beat' tables where the player who has the best losing hand receives an accumulated prize pool. An additional amount of rake is taken from each hand to fund the jackpot. The largest online jackpot to date was €1.25 million, hit in July 2011 with €443,000 going to the loser of the hand.^[2]

Players are statistically more likely to experience bad beats online, since playing using a computer allows for more hands played per hour. Also, online players may play multiple cash game tables and/or tournaments at the same time, also increasing the frequency of hands dealt.Also, tells are rendered moot, so players are incapable of reading clues such as body language in aid of deriving the strength of an opponent's hand.Finally, online poker games (especially freeroll tournaments) are far more accessible to the average player who, being average, is less likely to be knowledgeable regarding the techniques of the game, in turn making it more likely they will bet from the gut or intuition rather than experience.

Bad beat jackpot[edit]

A bad beat jackpot is a prize that is paid when a sufficiently strong hand is shown down and loses to an even stronger hand held by another player.^[3] Not all poker games offer bad beat jackpots, and those that do have specific requirements for how strong a losing hand must be to qualify for the jackpot. For example, the losing hand may be required to be four-of-a-kind or better. There may be additional requirements as well. For example, in Texas hold 'em there is usually a requirement that both hole cards play in both the losing and winning hands, or that where a full house is the minimum (usually aces full of jacks or higher), both hole cards must be used to make the three-of-a-kind in the full house.

Bad beat jackpots are usually progressive, often with a small rake being taken out of each pot to fund the jackpot (in addition to the regular rake). When a jackpot is won, it is usually split among all players sitting at the table at the time of the bad beat with the losing hand getting the largest share, followed by the winning hand, and all the other players dividing the remainder. Generally, only the best losing hand is eligible to win the largest share, even if another hand would also qualify.

Specific rules, collections, payout percentages, and amounts vary greatly from one casino or cardroom to the next, and are sometimes changed.

Notes[edit]

^PokerStars: Random Number Generator Audits
^Boss Media's Bad Beat Jackpot is Finally Hit
^'Commerce Casino: Jackpots'. Archived from the original on 2006-08-20. Retrieved 2006-08-20.

Books[edit]

Bad Beats and Lucky Draws by Phil Hellmuth ISBN0-06-074083-3
Poker: Bets, Bluffs, And Bad Beats by A. Alvarez ISBN0-8118-4627-X

Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Rules

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10:57
22 Dec

Bad beat jackpots have been around for a long time. Used as an enticement to get punters through the door, or signed up to their poker room, the sometimes insanely high payout provides an extra dimension of entertainment.

But are they actually good for poker?

Thrill Seekers

When each hand offers a possibility of walking away with something like half a million dollars, that tends to get people’s attention. More accurately, it tends to attract the thrill seekers.

Thrill seekers and hardcore gamblers are every poker professional’s wildest dream. With a decent bad beat jackpot on offer everyone gets what they want. Well, almost everything.

Somebody Has to Pay

Unfortunately, the money in the bad beat jackpot has to come from somewhere, and casino bosses are not known for their generosity. So, the only way this can work is that the rake increases.

Now we are left with a simple math problem that we can never answer accurately, or with any real confidence. Is the extra rake worth paying in order to get more recreational players sat down at your table.

Just think that not only are some of these jackpot chasers clueless about poker, but they are also going to play incredibly sub optimally to increase their chances of hitting bingo. Anything that can bring these guys into the fold is a great thing for poker.

Another bonus of having a bad beat jackpot live at your table is that the extra action stimulated by the rec can sometimes get the other regs feeling a rush of blood to the head. If you can keep your calm among all this craziness you stand to be in a very good game, regardless of the increased rake.

Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Rules

So, the final judgement has to be that bad beat jackpots are good for poker. They might be cheesy, and super unlikely to happen, but they have so many good points and that makes them worth having.

The Biggest Bad Beat Jackpot in History

It is unknown who first came up with the idea to run a bad beat jackpot. They kind of appeared and were copied by everyone right away. The insane sums on offer would be displayed in neon lighting hanging from the ceiling, enticing the unsuspecting non-poker player.

As for the bad beat jackpot record, it was only last year that we saw a new benchmark being set. On January 16, 2018, at Detroit’s Motor City Casino, a huge jackpot of $1,068,590.80 was paid out.