Sunday, November 2, 2008

What is poker Bad Beat Jackpot?

We look closely at what a Bad Beat Jackpot is and why it can be very interesting for you as a poker player
Why are the Bad Beat Jackpot interesting?
The 29th August 2007 so was a record of an online poker site. Then one player won over 1.8 million Bad Beat Jackpot, who had the winning hand.

This is because it is just a Bad Beat Jackpot is on - a "Bad Beat" is slang for losing firm has a great hand, and you lose even though you have a great hand so you win a jackpot . It has begun to be popular among many poker rooms that offer this variation of poker - Poker Host is just one of many examples.

However, there are certain requirements in order to win the jackpot: you must have lost at least four eights on hand (this can vary among different poker room). In the example above, the player had a colorful ladder with 10 as the highest card, and lost against a like ladder fixed with King as the highest card. Such a loss can be very expensive because it probably played a hard hand or on t gone "all in". But with a Bad Beat Jackpot can move away from the table far richer than when we sat.

How does it work?
You look up table which is known as a "Bad Beat Jackpot." In the example, PokerHost that is the way in order to collect $ 0.50 from the pot on each hand that is rakad $ 0.25 or more. The jackpot keeps growing until someone wins it.

All players at the table will win a share of the jackpot, but who had the second best hand at least 8888 wins most of the money. This person may be 50% of the jackpot. The winner of the hand, 25% and the rest of the players at the table share the remaining 25%.

In another example, than what we started this article as did the next best hand, $ 125 202.57, the best hand, $ 62 601.28 and the three other players at the table $ 20 867.09 each.

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