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EA2USN

EA2USN

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My question is concerning live play. A lot of casinos offer bad beat jackpots, high hand jackpots and other similar promotions. Should you take these in to account when deciding to play a hand. For instance the other day I was playing in a 1/3 nl cash game, late position and I get dealt QJ suited the casino has a royal flush promotion where if you make a royal with both hole cards you win the jackpot. Mine was diamonds which was at near 4k. The action is this utg makes it $13 which is a pretty standard raise for this table, 1 caller, then next player makes it $67pot was $30, 2 $13 bets plus $4 from blinds. So I'm facing calling $67 into a $97 pot with the potential for winning the jack pot of 4k if I make the royal. Call, fold, or raise?
 
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Think of it this way. How often do you make a royal flush? The answer is 1 in 64,973 hands using both hole cards.

So now do some pot odds. Would calling 67 dollars to win $4,000 make sense with those odds? No. So simply trying to hit a royal flush for the possibility of winning the jackpot is not profitable in the slightest. If it was profitable, casinos wouldn't be doing them.

That being said, it doesn't mean you shouldn't play top suited connectors. You just shouldn't be trying to catch royal flushes and calling huge bets.


Also I've won two high hand jackpots in my life. Both with quad 7s. And I didn't play the 7s any differently until I saw I had quads. Because I knew the high hand was below my quad 7s and you have to get to showdown to win those jackpots, I check-called everything. Also my casino does hourly high hands across all the tables (only about 15 tables).
 
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I folded the hand. Was just wondering if any consideration should be givin. The bad beat jackpot at my local casino is mow close too 275k and thee are several players that play any qualifying starting hands just to try and hit it. I have been playing the same but getting crushed lately by the idiots calling with 24 suited and such rags and flopping trips or start and flush draws to my premium hands.
 
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Casino jackpots should almost never change your preflop action. As KM pointed out, you are never getting the pot odds to chase these long shots.

However, your post flop play may change if you make a jackpot hand, but tbh these jackpots rarely cross my mind in-game. I play to win money and make good decisions, not to win the lottery.
 
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