The poker world noticed the second-largest dangerous beat jackpot ever on Sept. 27 at Playground Poker Membership in Quebec, Canada. The property has seen a number of large payouts over the previous few years, however this jackpot paid out a large complete of CAD $2,275,388, or practically $1.7 million in U.S. {dollars}.
A participant named Yann held the profitable hand and was awarded 20% of the pot, per the poker site’s guidelines, for a complete of CAD $455,077 ($337,096). The “loser” within the hand was a participant named Elie, who collected 40% of the pot for a payout of CAD $864,000 ($640,004).
One other 20% of the pot was paid out to the opposite gamers on the desk. The membership didn’t say what number of gamers had been seated on the time, however at a full desk of 9 gamers every of the seven not within the hand would have taken house CAD $65,011 ($48,156). One other 20% was divided amongst all gamers concerned in a money recreation on the 75-table poker site.
The hand got here in a $2-$5 no-limit maintain’em recreation and noticed Yann with pocket aces and Elie with pocket nines. Each gamers caught a set on the flop and a 9 on flip gave Elie four-of-a-kind. Yann then scored quads with a river ace to set off the jackpot.
For the uninitiated, a foul beat jackpot happens when a premium hand is crushed by a fair higher premium hand. Casinos take a small potion out of each money recreation hand to construct the prize pool, very like a progressive jackpot on a slot machine. Qualifying fingers for the dangerous beat fluctuate by on line casino.
Playground Poker Membership has been the positioning for a number of of those large payouts together with setting the document for a foul beat jackpot in August 2023 for CAD $2.6 million. Then in October 2023, the property paid out CAD $1.3 million adopted by one other CAD $1.8 million in March.
It lastly occurred! The Unhealthy Beat Jackpot hit $2,275,388 right this moment at Playground! Yann took the hand, however Elie, who misplaced, gained $864K—the largest winner from the 2nd largest BBJ in poker and Playground’s historical past!
The BBJ is reseeded at $664K—nonetheless life-changing! pic.twitter.com/s8r2l77Feo
— Playground Poker (@PlaygroundPoker) September 27, 2024
