February 23, 2009 - Carbon Poker has made one losing player very happy when they won the world record breaking $1.2 million bad beat jackpot.
Proving Friday the 13th maybe unlucky for some but a winner all the same RUGGIO picked up the $417,386 bad beat jackpot playing on the low stakes $0.50/$1 cash tables at Carbon. With a jack high straight flush of hearts, he was bad beaten by AELANI who made a king high flush, holding King Queen of hearts - he took down a prize of $208,698 for his troubles. In addition the other 5 players at the table got a cool $41,739 each just for being sat with the lucky winners.
The jackpot has been reseeded and already stands at over $290,000
On winning the bad beat jackpot AELANI commented
“I am paying for college completely on my own through student loans so first and foremost I thought about how I would be able to pay off all my student loans and start my life in the real world debt-free.”
This is the first payout of the Bad Beat Jackpot since it was introduced by Carbon Poker in mid 2008.
Seeded by $0.50 from every pot on all listed Bad Beat tables the bad beat jackpot will payout when a hand of quad 7’s or better is busted. Currently, this is the lowest qualifying hand for a bad beat in the online industry.
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