June 26 - Absolute Poker gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars last
Sunday night after a player from Pasadena, Maryland hit the Bad Beat Jackpot at
this popular online poker room.
The Bad Beat Jackpot game is one of the poker world's most sought
after form of entertainment and essentially awards an ever-growing jackpot to
players for losing their game of poker. In addition, other players around the
'loser's' table are also awarded a good portion of the jackpot. The jackpot
grows when $0.50 is collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables.
On June 22nd, Sunday evening, a poker game was being played out amongst
several poker fans when RIVERMAN1969 lost his hand of Texas Hold 'em with four
tens to BFOXY, who had a hand of four queens. As a reward for his loss,
RIVERMAN1969 hit the Bad Beat jackpot and walked away with a stunning
$325,212.40 win.
Naturally, BFOXY could not go empty handed and he won $163,343 out of the
nearly $1 million jackpot. The majority of what was left of the jackpot was
split evenly between the players at the table and other players seated at Bad
Beat jackpot tables where the same game and stakes were being played out.
An Absolute Poker spokesman said about the latest win: "We're hitting
milestones, breaking records and making ordinary players extraordinarily rich.
Bad Beat Jackpot continues to attract an enormous number of poker players to
Absolute Poker we can't wait to beat the industry record we just set once
again."
The latest win beats a previous record set by Absolute Poker in August 2007
and it is believed that the Bad Beat Jackpot will now regularly tickle the $1
million mark as more and more players flock to this poker room to try their luck
at this lucrative, exciting game.
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