Bad Beat Jackpot Payout at Ladbrokes Poker
A recent Bad Beat Jackpot payout at Ladbrokes Poker demonstrated perfectly just why playing at a Bad Beat cash table can be such a good idea for online poker room players. Two players sitting in the blinds at such a table were dealt poor starting hands and wisely decided to fold them pre-flop. A couple of minutes later their accounts had increased by $18,940 (around £11,415) each – not bad for hands that had been folded for their lack of winning potential!
The payout came because of what happened to the players left in the hand. One hit a straight flush, eight high, and naturally thought that he was onto a very good thing (new players can see why at Poker Hand Rankings). Unfortunately (or, as it turns out, fortunately!) his opponent had a straight flush that was Jack high. That was enough to win the hand and also trigger the Bad Beat Jackpot payout.
The player who won the hand with his Jack high straight flush won $75,000 more than he expected. The two players in the blinds who had folded, as stated a moment ago, won $18,940 each. As for the player who no doubt felt a tad sick when he saw his eight high straight flush get beaten, well, he ended up winning $151,000.
Whether the player with the winning hand was a bit jealous of the prize that his defeated opponent received is something that we can only speculate about. What we can say with some degree of certainty is that playing at a Bad Beat jackpot table was beneficial for everyone dealt into that particular hand at Ladbrokes Poker.
The moral of the story here is fairly obvious – if you want a chance of winning some compensation in the event that you ever suffer a particularly bad beat (which means getting beat when you have four-of-a-kind eights or better) then you need to play at Bad Beat Jackpot cash tables.
The Bad Beat Jackpot at Ladbrokes Casino was reset as soon as it paid out to the lucky players mentioned here and is already climbing rapidly. Will you be lucky enough to participate in the hand that triggers the next Bad Beat jackpot payout? Start playing at Ladbrokes Poker today and you’ll find out in due course!
24/05/2010 13:25:47
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