gogadgetdx
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I was sitting at a 1-2 table at the Red Rocks one late Sunday night (early Monday morning?) and it had been a standard-issue, uneventful night.
In the midst of a hand in which I had some completely forgettable hole cards and had already begun summoning another ****tail, the entire poker room came to a sudden stop.
This being my first participation in a bad beat jackpot, I knew not what was happening, but quickly gathered from the more seasoned players' murmur that a bad beat was being verified! Quickly, the tension in the air increased substantially; it was like electricity was washing over the area and the players.
After a few moments, it was confirmed that a royal had beaten quad kings, and the anticipation (and guesses) for a winfall was building. The Red Rocks is one of a chain of casinos in the greater Las Vegas area; the breakdown of the bad beat was standard, mostly: a quarter to the winner, a quarter to the loser, 10% to those sitting at the specific table, and the remaining 40% divided by all players at any poker table within the chain of casinos that Red Rocks belonged.
Everyone quickly went into back-of-the-napkin math, guesstimating the total active poker players across the several properties. Some thought each of us would only net $250; others calculated as much as $3000 - I only knew that it would be a profitable night for me regardless of how the cards fell.
In the end, the ~$460,000 pot yielded a little over $1,100 for each of us, and a great memory was seared into my memory. I've hit a few royals and 2's with the best kicker on 5 coins many times - while this win was less than those, I've never been a part of ~40 people simultaneously hitting quads or the the royal in the same place at the same time, and this is what that felt like.
Share your Bad Beat Jackpot story (or near-miss) below...
In the midst of a hand in which I had some completely forgettable hole cards and had already begun summoning another ****tail, the entire poker room came to a sudden stop.
This being my first participation in a bad beat jackpot, I knew not what was happening, but quickly gathered from the more seasoned players' murmur that a bad beat was being verified! Quickly, the tension in the air increased substantially; it was like electricity was washing over the area and the players.
After a few moments, it was confirmed that a royal had beaten quad kings, and the anticipation (and guesses) for a winfall was building. The Red Rocks is one of a chain of casinos in the greater Las Vegas area; the breakdown of the bad beat was standard, mostly: a quarter to the winner, a quarter to the loser, 10% to those sitting at the specific table, and the remaining 40% divided by all players at any poker table within the chain of casinos that Red Rocks belonged.
Everyone quickly went into back-of-the-napkin math, guesstimating the total active poker players across the several properties. Some thought each of us would only net $250; others calculated as much as $3000 - I only knew that it would be a profitable night for me regardless of how the cards fell.
In the end, the ~$460,000 pot yielded a little over $1,100 for each of us, and a great memory was seared into my memory. I've hit a few royals and 2's with the best kicker on 5 coins many times - while this win was less than those, I've never been a part of ~40 people simultaneously hitting quads or the the royal in the same place at the same time, and this is what that felt like.
Share your Bad Beat Jackpot story (or near-miss) below...