Unbelievably lucky were the players who sat down at the cash-game tables at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada, on Wednesday, August 2. At the $1/$2 NLH limits, they got a brutal hit when they conquered the massive Bad Beat Jackpot worth 2,590,185 Canadian dollars, which is 1,937,645 US dollars! This jackpot went down indelibly in history as the biggest BBJ payout in live poker history!
Montreal's Playground Poker Club rewrote history for the second year in a row. With the new record, they beat the previous one, which was set there in June last year. A BBJ worth $2,228,425 CAD - about $1.6 million US - was paid out in the same poker room at the time.
It is no coincidence that world records are being broken in this poker club. In the Playground, 2 dollars from every pot is withdrawn to BBJ, which helps to quickly build a massive jackpot. In the first months after breaking the record, a hand that loses at least a poker ace qualifies for the BBJ, and then every three months the potentially winning hand is reduced by one level to four deuces. At the time the previous record was broken, this bar had already been at its lowest point for months.
The lucky loser was the player who hit poker with a TT combination on the 8TT72 board. He must have been ecstatic at that moment - he couldn't lose in this situation, because even if he didn't win this pot, he would break a huge BBJ, which he eventually did. That the four tens was not the best on this board was shown when his opponent turned a 69 and thus completed a straight flush. The fact that the last record BBJ fell in the Canadian Playground after a very similar hand is also incredible. In June 2022, an unknown player lost four tens to a 10-high straight flush with 89 on the aforementioned $2.2 CAD ($1.64 million USD) hand.
Although the club has not yet published the exact amounts paid out, we have an approximate idea. Based on BBJ's published payout rules, a player with a four-of-ten received 40% of the total, a player with a 10-high straight flush received 20%, the remaining 20 percent was split among the seated players at the table, and 20% was split between everyone in the poker room at the time. played cash on other tables in the poker room and were eligible for BBJ. 5% of all payouts is deducted as a tip for dealers.
According to a post on Reddit, the tens poker player cashed in a beautiful $984,270 for his dream "loss". On the other hand, the winner of the hand took home $429,135 in addition to the pot, and the runners-up did not leave empty-handed either, taking home $70,305 each. Playground Poker Club has announced that the BBJ has been reset to $700,000 Canadian dollars so it can skyrocket again.
Source: PokerNews, Twitter, BroBible, Poker.org
