Bad beat jackpot for record $1.9 million hits at Playground Poker Club

Justice was served Wednesday at the Playground Poker Club in Canada when a player with a pocket pair of 10s saw two more 10s flip during the flop and incredibly still lost the hand.

How, you ask? Because the hand that won had a straight flush.

However, the agonizing loss, in what was a low-stakes cash game, turned into a massive victory for everyone at the table. The hand triggered the card room’s bad beat jackpot for a world-record CAD $2,590,185 ($1.9 million USD).

If you’re unfamiliar with bad beat jackpots, PokerNews defines them as offered by poker rooms when a very good hand loses to an even better hand. The loser typically gets 50 percent of the jackpot, with the winner receiving 25 percent and the other players splitting the final 25 percent.

📣A NEW WORLD RECORD!!Just moments ago, after having climbed to a mindboggling $2,590,185, the Bad Beat Jackpot hit! 🥳This shatters the previous record of $2,228,425 set in June of 2022. Congratulations!!! You have made history! 🍾🥂

The BBJ has been reseeded at $700,863 🤩 pic.twitter.com/DbVjVXcxsa

— Playground Poker (@PlaygroundPoker) August 3, 2023

It’s unclear what the exact split ended up being at Playground Poker Club, but the Quebec card room is coincidentally also home to the previous largest jackpot which was the result of an eerily similar hand, according to PokerNews. In June 2022, a bad beat jackpot of $1.64 million USD was triggered when, again, quad 10s lost to a straight flush.

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