Bad Beat Jackpot
All players experience it at least once every few tournaments or cash games, seeing your nuts become weaker with the turn of a river…
Following that card your hand becomes only the second best hand possible, you still make the play you were going to and your opponent calls…
The showdown falls and the river has empowered them with the best possible hand, costing you a huge bulk, if not all of your cash.
What follows this situation? Swearing? Crying? The throwing of your computer out of the window?
We have all been there but what if i can tell you that instead of doing any or all of the above, you could be jumping for joy to the sound of thousands of dollars in prize money?
No i’m not trying to sell you anything, just telling you about the ‘Bad Beat Jackpot’ which is offered at Carbon Poker.
What is the ‘Bad Beat Jackpot’?
The ‘Bad Beat Jackpot’ is a pot of money created from taking 0.50 cents from each hand played on the specially labeled ring game tables which are accumulated into a huge jackpot for when the situation happens.
The jackpot offers the protection that almost all other poker sites don’t helping to cover your power hand from been beaten by another.
There are some conditions surrounding the jackpot which must be followed otherwise the jackpot prize pool isn’t released, but the terms are easy to follow and make good common sense when looked read.
How is the Jackpot is paid out?
If your hand qualifies for the jackpot you will be paid out straight after the hand, into your player account.
Carbon Poker recently paid out on their jackpot, paying out on $1.2 million to the table involved.
The jackpot bonus is split up by percentage with different amounts been paid out to those involved and those who were dealt into the hand.
How it is broken down?
What are the conditions that activate the Jackpot?
- 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.
- CarbonPoker 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 CarbonPoker’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.
