The Canadian Playground Poker Club has become world famous mainly due to its unique approach to the Bad Beat Jackpot, which has already broken world records here several times. It's only been two months since the greatest BBJ in live poker history was born right here in Montreal after a crash of straight flushes and quads. It was worth 2.59 million Canadian dollars, which translated to almost 2 million US dollars.
As we wrote at the time, the fact that the Montreal club is behind multiple BBJ record breaking is no accident, as the club's policy is largely oriented in this direction. Right after the jackpot hit, its value restarted to a still huge value of 700,000 Canadian dollars, but thanks to the 2 dollars that are taken from each pot, it is growing exponentially day by day.
Well, thanks to that, two months after the mentioned record-breaking BBJ another fell, and again its value was 7 figures. Like last time, this time as well the lucky win of a lifetime was born on the $1/$2 limits, where the "loosers" ran into each other with combinations of T J and 5 6 on board 7 9 4 8 A. The dream showdown set off a wave of euphoria and joy, followed by the count and the reckoning.
At that moment, BBJ was valued at CAD 1,344,069, which translates to just under a million dollars ($988,824). Out of this pot, the "looser" Teh Haw took the biggest share, with CAD 530,000. Pot winner Guy Sanschagrin took home half of that amount ($265,000 CAD), with $44,000 CAD split among the remaining six players at the table. The remaining 20% of the jackpot was distributed among all cash game players playing at that moment in the entire poker room.
In a short sequence, two life wins took care of restarting the jackpot to the level of CAD 140,000, from which it will gradually climb again to 7-digit heights. What do you think, will it ever be possible to break the previous records and create an even bigger jackpot?
Source: Twitter (X), PokerNews
