Bad Beat Jackpot

[WVUCarter 0]

This isn't a story about a bad beat I had so calm down everyoneI was playing $1-2 NL at Ceasars in Indiana this weekend and a few tables over someone hit the bad beat jackpot for about $205,000. Someone flopped quad dueces and then turn and river both came a 5 and lost to quad fives. The poker room went crazy and took about 2 hours for things to calm down. The crap part of the story is there was a guy who had just walked up to smoke a cig and another guy was at dinner with someone playing over his chips. Only one guy at the table chipped in $200 and gave to the guy who went to smoke. You'd think everyone at the table would have a heart and each give up some loot to that guy. If he did not get up to smoke the jackpot would have never been hit.

[canuck89 0]

One more reason to quit smoking....

[dapokerbum 0]

This isn't a story about a bad beat I had so calm down everyoneI was playing $1-2 NL at Ceasars in Indiana this weekend and a few tables over someone hit the bad beat jackpot for about $205,000. Someone flopped quad dueces and then turn and river both came a 5 and lost to quad fives. The poker room went crazy and took about 2 hours for things to calm down. The crap part of the story is there was a guy who had just walked up to smoke a cig and another guy was at dinner with someone playing over his chips. Only one guy at the table chipped in $200 and gave to the guy who went to smoke. You'd think everyone at the table would have a heart and each give up some loot to that guy. If he did not get up to smoke the jackpot would have never been hit.

I think this is a bad beat story and that you are the guy that went to smoke the cigarette.

[check_blazer 0]

This isn't a story about a bad beat I had so calm down everyoneI was playing $1-2 NL at Ceasars in Indiana this weekend and a few tables over someone hit the bad beat jackpot for about $205,000. Someone flopped quad dueces and then turn and river both came a 5 and lost to quad fives. The poker room went crazy and took about 2 hours for things to calm down. The crap part of the story is there was a guy who had just walked up to smoke a cig and another guy was at dinner with someone playing over his chips. Only one guy at the table chipped in $200 and gave to the guy who went to smoke. You'd think everyone at the table would have a heart and each give up some loot to that guy. If he did not get up to smoke the jackpot would have never been hit.

Did you get a part of player's share?

[Knish340 0]

This isn't a story about a bad beat I had so calm down everyoneI was playing $1-2 NL at Ceasars in Indiana this weekend and a few tables over someone hit the bad beat jackpot for about $205,000. Someone flopped quad dueces and then turn and river both came a 5 and lost to quad fives. The poker room went crazy and took about 2 hours for things to calm down. The crap part of the story is there was a guy who had just walked up to smoke a cig and another guy was at dinner with someone playing over his chips. Only one guy at the table chipped in $200 and gave to the guy who went to smoke. You'd think everyone at the table would have a heart and each give up some loot to that guy. If he did not get up to smoke the jackpot would have never been hit.

While waiting for a tournament once in LA, I sat down to play in a $20 NL game (yes, it was only a $20 buy in - had never seen it before). Anyways, I flopped quad 3's a few hands in (board was 339) and the guy to my right flopped a boat with pocket 9s. I slow played my quads to take his $20 and the river came 9 and I won $6K from the bad beat jackpot. Still cant believe they paid it out to a $20 buy in game. Anyways, one guy at the table was in the bathroom and another new player decided not to post and wait for the big blind right before that hand. I definitely made sure I compensated both of them, it's the right thing to do.

[ryan2323 0]

At the MGM in Vegas superbowl weekend. playing 1/2NL bought in for the max $200 and a few hands in got it all in with KK against a short stack (aprox $75). He had position, and anyhow he turned over AA.. I say nice hand. Flop is KKA, blank turn and river.NO bad beat / high hand of any kind at MGM. Figures I get in to a hand like this at the only casino i have ever played at that doesnt have some type of bad beat / high hand pay out.good session there anyway... 1.5 hours and cashed out $500. Got to love the drunks at the MGM on superbowl weekend!

[NoSup4U 0]

I don't think there is a right or wrong thing to do. Sometimes you get unlucky and take a smoke break at the wrong time. Sometimes I flop top boat and another guy flops quads. Nobody expects him to compensate me for getting unlucky so he can win mad loot.I don't see this as much different, its all part of the game. That being said, its not bad just to be a nice guy and make someone who probably feel like crap a bit happier either.Mark

[Naismith 0]

I have a bad beat jackpot story...I went out to the Bike for the Legends tournament and was playing in a cash game. The very first hand, I raised from the button. The BB called.The flop was:A-A-3He bet out and I just called.The turn was:QHe bet out and I pushed all in. He called and stood up screaming, "Ace! Ace! Ace!"The river was another ace. He stood up screaming loudly and everyone at the table started cheering. I looked at my buddy like, "WTF is going on here?" The guy showed his AQ and was yelling, "Show me kings! Show me kings! Show me kings!" Literally, over and over while the table was high-fiving. I tossed my cards into the muck.The entire table had a collective heart attack and he screamed, "NO! SHOW THOSE CARDS! SHOW THOSE CARDS!"The dealer grabbed them and flipped up Kh-8h. My buddy and I were so flipping confused until finally someone explained to us the bad beat jackpot. Two people left the table angry at us that we might cost them the jackpot in the future by mucking our cards.

[ThreeBet 0]

I had a deal with a buddy that we'd share 10% of each other if one of us got any amount from a bb jackpot. He lost with quad 9 to quad 10's on a $198K jackpot. There was one guy (who apparently no one liked ... old cogity fart, pretty much) that wasn't at the table when it hit. There was great debate as to whether he should get any from the other players with most of them not wanting to give him any. My buddy (and me with my 10%!) gave him a G and the guy with 10's gave him $500 while one other person gave him $100 (the table share was over 7K each).The standard "argument" is the hand wouldn't have happenned if a missing player played so he should be paid. I think Casinos should just make it a standard rule that all players at the table should get a share as long as they've played at least one hand ... leaving it up to the players to decide makes it way too complicated. When it was being tossed back and forth about paying this guy I thought it should have been covered 100% by the other 7 players, not the two players that had the hands, as the table share is the one that increases .... the two players in the hand don't get any more if someone's not there, only the other players. Instead, in this case, the two (and me!) get less than they should have because the others wouldn't give up anything. Make it a standard rule and its cut and dried its the fairest way to do it, imo.