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Absolute's Bad Beat Bonus Hits Again
This time it's for $462 652...
Absolute Poker.com's innovative Bad Beat Jackpot continues to attract
action and bail out bad beat victims, with the latest payout being
to an online player who lost a Texas Hold Em hand with quad Aces,
hitting the highest Bad Beat Jackpot yet and winning over $160 000
in cash.
"With nearly one million hands dealt since the last hit on
July 3rd, our Bad Beat Jackpot had climbed to over $464 000,"
commented David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker.
"Online poker players flooded the site in record numbers for
a shot at winning an unfathomable amount of cash just by losing
a hand."
On July 11th at 11:46 pm ET, an online poker player who goes by
the name of Calvinhobbes did just that, losing quad Aces to a Royal
Flush in a friendly game of Texas Hold'em at Absolute Poker.
At most online poker rooms and land-based casinos, a loss like
that would be disappointing to say the least, but not on this occasion.
The player was seated at one of Absolute Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot
tables where if a player loses a hand holding four 8s or anything
better at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, he or she hits the Bad Beat
jackpot. To help the jackpot build, $0.50 is collected from qualifying
hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables.
By the evening of July 11th, the jackpot had reached a record $464
652.03, eclipsing the previous jackpot of $297 287.63 that was hit
on July 3rd.
Calvinhobbes' share of the BBjackpot stands at $162 628.21. The
participants in the bad beat jackpot hand shared an additional $162
628.21 with the pot winner, taking over $81 000 and the remaining
players walked away with over $20 000 apiece.
Absolute Poker claims it is the only online poker site open to
American players to feature Bad Beat Jackpot tables. Bad Beat Jackpot
tables are flagged with the word "jackpot" written in
brackets after the table name and are categorised in red text.
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