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Sportsbook Poker Bad Beat Jackpot

Sportsbook.com Poker is part of the Merge Gaming Network which offers a bad beat jackpot. The network made history on 3/13/09 paying out the largest bad beat jackpot online poker has ever seen. A staggering $1.2 million was won by a player holding 7h8h.

The flop came down: 3d   9h   Jh with the player smooth calling his flush, gutshot straight and gutshot straight flush draws.

The turn was a blank : Qs but this did not stop the hero from calling another raise.

The turn was the miracle card: 10h completing the straight flush! Our player raised all in only to find that his opponent was holding Qh Kh!!!

He lost the $100 pot but his share of the $1.2million bad beat jackpot smoothed the pain!

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Sportsbook.com Bad Beat Jackpot Requirements

  • The losing hand must be at least a Four of a Kind 7’s
  • The winning hand must be at least a Four of a Kind 8’s
  • Both the winning and losing hands must include both hole cards.
  • At least four players must be dealt in at the start of the hand
  • The hand must have generated jackpot rake (ie. $0.50)
  • Two or more players must be active at the end of the hand, and it must go to showdown.
  • Sportsbook Poker does not tolerate collusion. All players must act independently and not reveal their hands to other players, nor tell them how to act. Failure to adhere to this requirement will result in automatic disqualification from the Bad Beat Jackpot.
  • Players sitting out at the Bad Beat Jackpot tables are not eligible for the Bad Beat Jackpot.
  • Should two qualifying jackpot hands hit at precisely the same time, the jackpot will be awarded to the hand that began first according to Sportsbook Poker’s server time. The second of the qualifying bad beat hands would be eligible for the reseeded Bad Beat Jackpot.
  • If there are two or more hands that qualify for the jackpot within one hand, then the two highest hands will be considered for the jackpot, with the highest hand being the winning hand and the second highest hand winning the bad beat