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In poker, especially in its online variant often that a player is having a hand that seems invincible, but eventually they loose by an even better hand. This is an extremely unpleasant experience served most often with solid cash losses. To make the feeling of this experience radically different a few poker rooms offer so-called "Bad Beat Jackpot". Besides holding a losing hand is such jackpot situation, which generally takes the greatest part of the jackpot: part of the winning are given to the player holding the winning hand (much less) and all other players involved in the hand.

Two of the biggest and most popular BadBeat Jackpots are in the poker networks: Boss Media and Merge Gaming. We recommend these poker rooms where you can play for the jackpots: Bet-at-home Poker и Carbon Poker

Bet-at-home Poker

Carbon Poker
       
    Boss Media     Merge Gaming
 

 

Bad Beat promotion in Bet-at-home Poker:

1) You must play at a table marked "Jackpot table" with the symbol;
2) In the losing hand must be involved both  hole cards;
3) The loosing hand should be composed of tens Box (TTTT) or something stronger;
4) At least four players at the table should be dealt in the hand;
5) Both players must reach showdown.

Create a poker account with Bet-at-home Poker: HERE

  

 

Bad Beat promotion in Carbon Poker:

1) You must play at a table marked "Jackpot table";
2) In both the winning and the losing hand must contained both two hole cards;
3) The loosing hand should be of at least four of kind - sevens (7777), or something stronger;
4) At least four players at the table must be dealt in the hand;
5) Both players must reach showdown.

Create a poker account Carbon Poker: HERE

 

Bad Beat Payout Structure

How the jackpot is devided

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In general, any poker network decide for themselves how to allocate money collected for badbeat jackpot. Distribution in Boss Media (Bet-at-home Poker, Poker Heaven, Paradise Poker) is as follows:

Winners % of the price pool
The player holding the loosing hand 35%
The player holding the winning hand 17.50%
The other players dealt in the hand 17.50%
Administration fee for the poker room 10%
Feed for the next jackpot 20%
Totally: 100%

* Players with status "sat out" do not take part of price pool.

The pay out structure is similar for most of the networks.

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