Not Easy to Hit
It isn't easy to hit a bad beat jackpot. The odds differ based on the requirements at the specific card room you're playing in, but it is generally about 1 in 2,000,000.
January 2008
The Bad Beat Jackpot hit for $1,068,590 at the Motor City Casino in Detroit.
February 2009, (Friday the 13thThe players on Carbon Poker won a huge bad beat jackpot of just under $1,200,000.
August 2012
The Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh Bad Beat Jackpot hit $1.2 million.
August 2017
Playground Poker Club in Montreal paid off a Bad Beat Jackpot of $1,375,000, a record for live poker at the time.
November 2018
On BetOnline the Bad Beat Jackpot turned $1,249,972. Unbelievably, the same player won another bad beat jackpot two months later.
June 2022
Incredibly, another bad beat jackpot hit at Playground Poker Club, but this one was much bigger. The pot reached $2.2 million by all accounts.
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