Bad Beat Jackpot Hits In Canada For $1.7 MillionQuads Over Quads Leads To Huge Payday At Playground Poker Club |
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The poker world saw the second-largest bad beat jackpot ever on Sept. 27 at Playground Poker Club in Quebec, Canada. The property has seen several big payouts over the last few years, but this jackpot paid out a massive total of CAD $2,275,388, or nearly $1.7 million in U.S. dollars.
A player named Yann held the winning hand and was awarded 20% of the pot, per the poker room’s rules, for a total of CAD $455,077 ($337,096). The “loser” in the hand was a player named Elie, who collected 40% of the pot for a payout of CAD $864,000 ($640,004).
Another 20% of the pot was paid out to the other players at the table. The club didn’t say how many players were seated at the time, but at a full table of nine players each of the seven not in the hand would have taken home CAD $65,011 ($48,156). Another 20% was divided among all players involved in a cash game at the 75-table poker room.
The hand came in a $2-$5 no-limit hold’em game and saw Yann with pocket aces and Elie with pocket nines. Both players caught a set on the flop and a nine on turn gave Elie four-of-a-kind. Yann then scored quads with a river ace to trigger the jackpot.
For the uninitiated, a bad beat jackpot occurs when a premium hand is beaten by an even better premium hand. Casinos take a small potion out of every cash game hand to build the prize pool, much like a progressive jackpot on a slot machine. Qualifying hands for the bad beat vary by casino.
Playground Poker Club has been the site for several of these huge payouts including setting the record for a bad beat jackpot in August 2023 for CAD $2.6 million. Then in October 2023, the property paid out CAD $1.3 million followed by another CAD $1.8 million in March.
It finally happened!
The Bad Beat Jackpot hit $2,275,388 today at Playground!
Yann took the hand, but Elie, who lost, won $864K—the biggest winner from the 2nd largest BBJ in poker and Playground's history!
The BBJ is reseeded at $664K—still life-changing! pic.twitter.com/s8r2l77Feo— Playground Poker (@PlaygroundPoker) September 27, 2024
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