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Beating The Bad Beat
Absolute Poker has a quad 2 plan to turn misfortune around
The online poker site Absolute Poker.com has introduced a new Bad
Beat Jackpot that allows player suffering from bad beat blues to
turn their situation around, adding a new spin to its Texas Hold'em
poker games.
"We're taking away the pain delivered by bad beats by throwing
money at the victims," stated David Clainer, senior vice president
for Absolute Poker.
In poker, the term 'bad beat' refers to losing a hand that is clearly
favoured to win. But at the Bad Beat Jackpot tables, losing a seemingly
unbeatable hand is not necessarily the end of the world. Now, when
seated at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, if a player loses a hand holding
four twos (2222) or anything better, they'll win a piece of the
Bad Beat Jackpot.
To kick off the new online poker game, Absolute Poker is putting
$100 000 into the jackpot. To help it build, $0.50 will be collected
from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables. The jackpot will
keep growing until someone hits a qualifying bad beat, at which
time a large percentage of it will be distributed among the bad
beat victim and the players at the online poker table where the
bad beat occurred (a small fraction of the jackpot will remain in
the pot and another unspecified percentage of it will be dedicated
to administration costs).
Bad Beat Jackpot tables will be noted with the word "jackpot"
written in brackets after the table name and will be categorized
in red text.
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