The Lodge Card Club in Texas recently made history by delivering a $289,376 bad beat jackpot during a $1-$2-$5 pot-limit Omaha game, the largest of its kind in Texas poker history. Two players flopped strong straight flushes and went all in, triggering the jackpot that had accumulated over 190 days. The ‘losing’ player walked away with $144,688 despite being dealt the weaker hand. The Lodge’s unique bad beat jackpot structure celebrates moments when premium hands lose to even better hands, offering substantial payouts to lucky players.
In 99.9% of the pot-limit Omaha games in the world, this would be the end of the (sad) story for the five-high straight flush. But thanks to the Lodge bad beat - a prize that started 190 days ago at $100,000 and increased by $1,000 per day - that player walked away with the biggest share of a $290,000 prize.
A bad beat jackpot is a promotion held at many poker rooms that collects a small amount from each cash game pot to seed the prize pool. The jackpot is triggered when a premium hand loses to an even better hand.
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