Players in a 6-max $10/$20 Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) game at online poker site GGPoker experienced one such beat where four queens was beaten by four kings – triggering the jackpot of $593,177.
Poker bad-beat jackpots are common in both land-based and online poker sites, but seldom do they swell to over half a million dollars.
This one hand of online poker at popular international online poker site GGPoker resulted in in $593,177 in prize money being distributed among the players at the table when the hand was dealt.
Ibai Delgado, (the losing player with quad Queens), received the majority of the Bad Beat Jackpot (BBJ) prize pool – walking away from the hand with $366,000.
The hand’s winner, bilaterale1, took home $115,000, while the others and all other players dealt into the hand received $29,000 each approximately equivalent to 15 x 100 buy-ins at $10/$20 blinds.
How does the Poker Bad Beat Jackpot work at GGPoker?
- Both the winner and the loser of the hand must use two of their hole cards in order to make their final best 5-card hand combination
- The hand must go all the way to a showdown between two or more players.
- For four of a kind (quads) hands, players must have the pair in their hand (not 1 card from their hand and 4 from the board).
What are the minimum hands required to trigger the GGPoker Bad Beat jackpot, by game type?
- Texas Hold’em: A Full House -Aces over Kings
- Pot Limit Omaha: Four of a kind 9’s or better
- 5-Card Pot Limit Omaha (PLO5): Quad Jacks
- Short Deck Hold’em: Quad Nines
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