Bad Beat Jackpot on IPoker

Win huge amounts of money being won with one single hand, it’s no surprise why Bad Beat Jackpots have become one of the most prized rewards in online poker players line of sight. Imagine winning money that would forever change your life. Well that has happened several times now in the online poker industry with players bagging over half a million dollars in cash winnings, with a losing hand.

Bad Beat Jackpots are offered at specific cash tables, on several IPoker network sites, among which we have William Hill Poker UK’s most favourite site, Titan Poker the most popular poker website across Europe and Virgin Poker, one of the poker sites currently offering some of the best deals in the industry.

For newbies, the bad beat concept is based on the fact a somewhat strong hand gets beaten by an even better hand. Since this is a suggestive term where several hands are considered as being strong, the Bad Beat Jackpot rules have set the weakest hand as being a four of a kind of eights. To qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot, there needs to be at least 4 players at the tables to have been dealt cards and the two hole cards distributed to each players must be used to create the best and losing hand.

The irony behind Bad Beat Jackpots in terms of poker, is that it rewards the losing hand. 35% of the jackpot goes to the losing hand, 17.5 % to the winning hand, another 17.5% is split among the players that were dealt cards, 10% credited to the house and the remaining 20% goes to the new jackpot.

Currently the IPoker Bad Beat Jackpot lies somewhere above €550,000 so if you do the math, image what the winning prize will be once the Bad Beat Jackpot is hit. So pokers players shuffle up and deal.

Written by Mark for Poker Rooms Info