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What's a Bad Beat Jackpot?

Bad beat jackpots are quickly growing in popularity in the online casinos poker industry because they allow players who “should have won” a hand to actually trigger a jackpot. Bad beat jackpots reward players losing a Texas Hold’em game with a “favored to win” hand. Many of the popular online casino poker sites offer these Bad Beat games, and now that the Absolute Poker jackpot recently paid out a record amount, jackpots can total $821,670. Other poker sites have reported high jackpots wins, but the Absolute jackpot payout last month toped the charts.

Just like progressive jackpots, bad beat jackpots start at a minimum amount and then build over time as more and more players engage in Texas Hold’em games. Once a jackpot is won, the amount starts jackpot resets to the minimum and builds once again. Progressive jackpots that are attached to online casino slot machines grow from a portion of the monies played at the slots. Bad beat jackpots on the other hand grow $0.50 at a time from all of the qualifying player hands. As players continue to play the bad beat online casino poker game without triggering the jackpot, the jackpot amount simply surges.

To trigger a bad beat online casino poker jackpot, a player must lose the game with a favored hand. A favored hand is any hand of four 8’s or better. If a player loses the Texas Hold’em game with the favored hand, the bad beat jackpot is triggered and disbursed to all of the participants in that particular hand, with the highest percentage of the jackpot going to the player who lost with a favored hand. Then, the next highest payout goes to the online casino poker player who actually won the hand. The rest of the money is distributed evenly to the other players.

And even though the jackpot resets, bad beat online casino poker players can rest assured that the jackpot is still sizable, even at its minimum. At Absolute Poker, for example, the jackpot was reset to $215,000, but grow extremely rapidly as players from around the world participate in the online casino poker Texas Hold’em games.