Poker Jackpot Reaches Six Figures in Record Time
Written by Matt W | Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Players wanting to put themselves in line to qualify for lucrative poker jackpots sometimes need to wait a while once the jackpot has just been won. However, this wasn’t the case with the popular Bad Beat Jackpot at the Absolute Poker site a couple of weeks ago.
It was reported that within twenty four hours of a lucky player grabbing the jackpot, the prize money had once again reached six figures and was up for grabs.
The Absolute Poker Jackpot, an online poker site that claims to offer players one of the best gambling experiences around, thanks to its great industry reputation (despite recent scandals) and customer service, runs the Bad Beat Jackpot – one of its most popular poker games.
Several weeks ago, a player at the site lost a hand of Texas Hold ‘em poker while holding Quad Nines. As a result, the player – known by his pseudonym NEELIX40 – grabbed the Bad Beat Jackpot, valued at a whopping $308,379.28.
But that wasn’t the end of the jackpot festival. Simply for delivering the bad beat to lucky NEELIX40, the other player – OATS4XMAS - (who won the game with Quad Aces) was awarded over $50,000 in prize money! And it was also worth being a player at the table… All the other players who witnessed the event around the table were also awarded over $12,000 each!
The Bad Beat Jackpot offered by Absolute Poker is an exciting version of the wildly popular Texas Hold ‘em Poker. A player can stand in line to win a significant portion of the prize while seated at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, simply for losing a game of Texas Hold ‘em poker with a hand of four eights (or better).
After the exciting win by NEELIX40, players at Absolute Poker did not have to wait long until the sum of the jackpot rose once more. As stated, within less than twenty four hours, the amount had reached over $100,000, generating a lot of poker action at the site as players clambered to try and become the next lucky winners.
One of the reasons why the jackpot prize money has managed to increase so fast is the fact that all players with qualifying hands who go for this pot are charged $0.50, helping the jackpot grow until a player manages to hit a qualifying bad beat. Thanks to the great twist in this game, all participants at the table share part of the jackpot.
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