Sometimes, you're on the right end of them, and other times, you take one on the chin. Shaun Deeb organized a massive pool with thousands in the pot as dozens of poker players are chasing that life-changing score.īad beats are part of poker.
There's another type of jackpot, a non-poker related one, that's been taking the US by storm in recent weeks, and that is the Powerball jackpot, which has surpassed $2 billion. In Augst, the largest poker bad beat jackpot in US history - $1,227,765 - hit at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh when quad aces lost (but won big) to a royal flush.