We move to near Austin, Texas, more specifically to The Lodge Poker Club, a poker room owned by Doug Polk, Andrew Neeme and Brad Owen. That's where an unbelievable situation took place yesterday that you certainly don't see on a regular basis.

They have a number of promotional bonuses ready for players at this poker room, including the PLO Bad Beat Jackpot, which is worth up to $118,000. Well, that's the one that fell yesterday. Well, almost!

Everything changed in an instant

On one of the tables, one of the players found among his four cards 7 8and the other K Q. Already on the flop, however, both thanks to 9 T J hit a straight flush to qualify for the aforementioned jackpot.

In this poker club, the rules for the Bad Beat Jackpot are as follows. You must lose a straight flush on the flop and you must use two cards to do so. Playing a straight flush, against a straight flush is of course a qualification, which would split the jackpot between the players. The player with the losing hand would take 50 percent of the jackpot, or $57,200, the player with the winning hand would take $28,600, and the rest would be split between the players sitting at the table and the players sitting in the poker room at the time.

There were 39 players in the room at the time, so each would have made $3,900, but the players sitting at the table who were not involved in the hand that hit the jackpot would have taken $5,700 each.

None of the above happened in the end, however, because something happened on the river that nobody predicted in their worst dreams. The entire Bad Beat Jackpot was nullified by a diamond ace on the river, which upgraded the K-Q player's hand to a Royal Flush. It was the only card that could have voided the entire jackpot! In fact, the house rules for hitting the jackpot state that a straight flush must lose on the flop, and both winning and losing cards must be flopped. A Royal Flush is usually a joyous moment, but in this case it brought sadness, and straight for the entire poker room.

Nightmare river card disqualifies 118k Bad Beat

2 @LodgePokerClub members hit straight flushes on the flop in PLO.

But with the Ace on the river, the winning hand became a rivered Royal Flush, disqualifying the "flop only" bad beat.

Might be the worst 1 outer in poker history pic.twitter.com/JWzxM8twqv

- Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) August 16, 2024

Source - pokernews, twitter (X), the lodge, doug polk