Massive Bad Beat Jackpots Hit at Three Poker Rooms in Same Week
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Three six-figure bad beat jackpots. Three separate North American poker rooms. All within the same week.
Losing to a rare cooler wasn't so rare the past week in the low-stakes live cash game streets. Two of the three progressive jackpots hit in Canada, and the third and most recent one in Florida.
The biggest Bad Beat Jackpots Hit in Canada
If it seems like all the biggest bad beat jackpots in the world hit in Canada, it's because they do. On Feb. 28 at the Casino Du Lac-Leamy in Quebec, Canada, a CAD $550,062 (approximately $405,000) bad beat jackpot hit in a $1/$3 no-limit hold'em game.
One player moved all in preflop with pocket aces against pocket kings. The board ran out K♠K♦5♠A♥A♠, giving both players quads. Pocket kings, the losing player, received approximately $220,000, 40% of the jackpot. Pocket aces took home 20% of the pot, around $110,000, while the remaining six players in the game all received $18,000 a piece, and the rest of the pot went to all other seated players in the room. The bad beat jackpot reset to $250,000, with aces full of kings losing as the minimum qualifier.
Lac-Leamy, last April, was home to the second-largest poker bad beat jackpot ever — CAD $2.5 million ($1.81 million USD).
The largest live poker bad beat jackpot ever — CAD $2.6 million — also occurred in Quebec at Playground. That same popular card room, set to play host to the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) later this month, was home to a smaller but still massive jackpot earlier this week.
Two players at Playground set off the largest Omaha bad beat jackpot in history — CAD $924,780 — when a king-high straight flush trumped a jack-high straight flush in a $2/$5 PLO5 game. The losing hand was paid approximately $370,000 and the winning hand received around $185,000. All others at the table collected just over $30,000 each.
Six-Figure Cooler Hits at Florida Poker Room
Canada isn't the only country in North America with large bad beat jackpots. Florida's bestbet Jacksonville, one of the top card rooms in the U.S., saw a $188,383 jackpot pop on March 2.
A hand in a $2/$2 no-limit hold'em game saw one player with 9♦9♠ hit quads on a board of 6♣7♣9♥8♣9♣. But that monster hand was no good, as the player was up against a straight flush — J♣9♣.
The player with quads, however, felt much better after realizing he'd won $94,191, half the progressive jackpot, and the player who won the hand took home $47,095. Table share was worth $9,419 a piece. The no-limit hold'em jackpot has been reset and, as of Saturday, was just over $22,500.
The Jacksonville card room is a popular destination for the World Poker Tour (WPT) and some of the juiciest cash games in the Sunshine State.
