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?
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GGPoker Sets New Record for the Biggest Online Poker Bad Beat Jackpot
- The hand must go all the way to a showdown between two or more players. GGPoker Sets New Record for the Biggest Online Poker Bad Beat Jackpot
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 GGPoker Sets New Record for the Biggest Online Poker Bad Beat Jackpot
- Short Deck Hold’em: Quad Nines
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