BetOnline Bad Beat Jackpot Hits For Almost $1million

Playing a $1/2 cash game rarely sees the best part of a $million at the table, but when BetOnline’sBad Beat Jackpot hit on Sunday that’s exactly what the players shared out when one player’s quad jacks was trumped by a straight flush – a whopping $994,179.34 split amongst the winner, loser and everyone else at the tables!

‘TYRANT’ – a great name for bossing a poker table – must have thought it was his lucky day when the river brought him a 4th Jack, but it turned out better than he could ever have imagined when he saw his opponent ‘pokerplayer4ever’ go all-in, a quick call revealing a flopped straight flush in diamonds and the $403 pot suddenly became a $273,382.82 windfall for the quads loser.

The USA-friendly poker site BetOnline has been running the Bad Beat Jackpot for quite some time, but this is the biggest score to date – and thanks to the newly-created ‘Room Share’ it meant that everyone sitting at a BBJ table shared in the scoop – a very useful $598.87 each.

For the winner of the hand? The straight flush landed him $149,018.49 – a ‘winner’s loser’s’ share guaranteed to make 2018 that bit more comfortable, as will the $74,509 which two of the others at the 6-max table, MATTER1734 and SHARA02, walked off with for being in the hand.

Unfortunately for the short-stack at the cash game, (seven), and fellow player Bimaxa, they’ll have to make do with the ‘min cash of $600’ – you have to be in it to win it when it comes to the big money and both players were sitting out when the massive hand unfolded.

With a chunk of the money used to seed the next jackpot, there is already more than $280,000 in the kitty for the next BetOnline Bad beat Jackpot – and you’ll need to lose with Quad Jacks (or better) to hit the big money.

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Hand History:

#256176739: Texas Hold'em NL ($1/$2 USD) - 2018/01/07 20:04:26 UTC

Table 'BAD BEAT JACKPOT $1/$2 - 6 Seater #1710' Seat #1 is the button

Seat 1: pokerplayer4ever ($207.39 in chips)

Seat 2: matter1734 ($200 in chips)

Seat 4: shara02 ($215.67 in chips)

Seat 5: Tyrant ($200 in chips)

Seat 0: (seven) ($80 in chips) (SitOut)

Seat 3: Bimaxa ($200 in chips) (SitOut)

matter1734: posts small blind $1

shara02: posts big blind $2

* PREFLOP *

Tyrant: raises $5

pokerplayer4ever: raises $18

matter1734: folds

shara02: folds

Tyrant: calls $13

* FLOP * [8d 9d Jd]

Tyrant: checks

pokerplayer4ever: bets $10.17

Tyrant: calls $10.17

* TURN * [8d 9d Jd] [4d]

Tyrant: checks

pokerplayer4ever: checks

* RIVER * [8d 9d Jd 4d] [Jh]

Tyrant: checks

pokerplayer4ever: bets $179.22 and is all-in

Tyrant: calls $171.83 and is all-in

pokerplayer4ever: uncalled bet $7.39

* SHOW DOWN *

pokerplayer4ever: shows [Qd Td] (a straight flush, Eight to Queen)

pokerplayer4ever collected $399.50 from main pot

Tyrant: shows [Js Jc] (four of a kind, Jacks)

Bad Beat Jackpot Hand!

Tyrant has won $273,382.82

pokerplayer4ever has won $149,018.49

matter1734 has won $74,509.25

shara02 has won $74,509.24

* SUMMARY *

Total pot $403. | Rake $3. Jackpot fee $0.50.

Board [8d 9d Jd 4d Jh]