A straight flush beating a four-of-a-kind does not count, nor does a straight flush beating a straight flush. At this specific bad beat jackpot table, the jackpot is only triggered if a four-of-a-kind is defeated by a stronger four-of-a-kind. But no matter the minimum strength, the bad beat jackpot is typically hit as long as that hand is beaten by a stronger one. Usually, a casino or online poker room has a minimum strength for the losing hand it could be quads, maybe quad Jacks or higher, or even a straight flush. The Motor City Casino’s bad beat jackpot works slightly differently than most. There were four other players at the table, each receiving $106,856.28 just for folding (this was a ten-max table, too, so they were fortunate the table wasn’t full). As the loser of the hand, Scott received the largest portion of the bad beat jackpot, $427,452.52, while Kenneth got $213,712.76. The one this week, though, at a brick-and-mortar casino, beat that: $1,068,590.80.Īccording to Edward Pevos of, a player named Scott from Oxford, Michigan had the losing hand, quad Threes, topped by a player named Kenneth, who had quad Queens. We recently wrote about a bad beat jackpot hit on the Chico Network for nearly a million dollars. Poker bad beat jackpots are not the typical article topic on this here website, but this is going to be the third one in the span of what, about a month? On Tuesday, January 16th, what was reportedly the largest bad beat jackpot in United States history was hit at Detroit’s Motor City Casino poker room.

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