Everybody loves a bad-beat story when there’s a jackpot involved.

1. NFL bad beat: Eagles go for 2-point conversion and it costs bettor who had $500,000 on Seahawks -6.5. What looked like a lock on a half-million-dollar wager was coming down to a meaningless.
2. Million-Dollar Bad Beat Hit At $1-$2 Texas Hold'em Table On BetOnline Poker 'Tyrant' Wins $273K After Quad Jacks Lose To Straight Flush by Card Player News Team Published: Jan 09, 2018.
3. The million dollar beat If you've never seen someone lose $1 million because of a bad beat, then check out this recent clip from the 2014 Big One for One Drop. Having paid $1 million to play in the super high stakes charity event, Connor Drinan was left stunned after his pocket aces were cracked by the pocket aces of Cary Katz.

The Texas Hold'em Bad Beat Jackpot on Carbon Poker has ballooned to nearly $1 million. The site is offering several promotions in conjunction with its size. Poker Legislation.

A nearly seven-figure bad-beat jackpot was hit late Sunday at a $1-$2 no-limit hold’em table on BetOnline Poker. Here’s a look at the crazy hand. Seat 1 had the button.

Seat 1: pokerplayer4ever ($207.39 in chips)
Seat 2: matter1734 ($200 in chips)
Seat 4: shara02 ($215.67 in chips)
Seat 5: Tyrant ($200 in chips)
Seat 0: (seven) ($80 in chips) (SitOut)
Seat 3: Bimaxa ($200 in chips) (SitOut)

matter1734: posts small blind $1
shara02: posts big blind $2

20 Dollar Beats

PREFLOP

Tyrant: raises $5
pokerplayer4ever: raises $18
matter1734: folds
shara02: folds
Tyrant: calls $13

FLOP 8 9 J

Tyrant: checks
pokerplayer4ever: bets $10.17
Tyrant: calls $10.17

TURN 4

Tyrant: checks
pokerplayer4ever: checks

RIVER J

Tyrant: checks
pokerplayer4ever: bets $179.22 and is all-in
Tyrant: calls $171.83 and is all-in
pokerplayer4ever: uncalled bet $7.39

SHOWDOWN

pokerplayer4ever: shows Q 10 for a straight flush
pokerplayer4ever collected $399.50 from main pot
Tyrant: shows J J for quad jacks

Bad Beat Jackpot Hand

Tyrant won $273,382.82
pokerplayer4ever won $149,018.49
matter1734 won $74,509.25
shara02 won $74,509.24

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The current bad beat jackpot on popular online poker site Carbon Poker sits at nearly $1 million. In an e-mail sent to affiliates late Sunday night, Carbon Poker officials announced that they expected the seven-figure threshold to be shattered officially within 48 hours. When it will be won remains to be seen.

The e-mail blast read, “This is the largest Bad Beat Jackpot of any poker room currently online. Any player that plays a bad beat table in the 24 hours [after] it hits the million dollar mark will get a coupon entry into a Bad Beat Jackpot Freeroll that has a prize pool of $1,000.” In addition, bad beat sit and go tournaments will kick off beginning when the jackpot reaches $1 million and will run for 24 hours. At the time of writing, the prize pool for a bad beat sits at $988,077.40.

Million Dollar Bad Beat Winner

The Bad Beat Jackpot on Carbon Poker is only valid at Texas Hold’em tables. In order to fund it, the online poker room takes $0.50 from each pot on bad beat jackpot cash tables. When the million dollar jackpot is finally hit, 35% of it will go to the loser of the hand. The winner will pocket 17.5% and the same amount will be doled out to other players at the table who were dealt to in the hand. It’s a cause for celebration for Carbon Poker as well, who will take 10% of the jackpot. The remaining 20% serves as seed money for the new jackpot. Players who are sitting out are not eligible to win.

When the jackpot is hit, affiliates of Carbon Poker will win as well. In fact, if the player who wins is tracked to an affiliate, the referrer will receive 1.5% of the payout. Carbon Poker is encouraging affiliates to utilize banners and other online marketing tools in order to steer players to the site, using the extra 1.5% payout to do so.

In order for a hand to be considered a bad beat on Carbon Poker, four sevens must go down in smoke. The winning and losing hands must include both hole cards. In the case of four of a kind, the player must have been dealt a pocket pair (for example, holding 4-4 to make up quad fours). The hand is only tracked if four or more players are involved in the hand and it must generate at least $0.50 in rake. In addition, the hand must go to showdown with at least two players still involved. As long as a hand passes all of those requirements, it is eligible for the bad beat jackpot on Carbon Poker.

20 Dollar Beats Free

The online poker room is a part of the Merge Gaming Network, whose sites also include Reefer Poker, Spin32, PokerNordica, Rumble Poker, TexasHoldem.com, and IronDuke. One of the first notable pros to sign with the network was Jennifer Leigh, known in the online poker world as Jennicide. On this designation, she told Poker News Daily during the month of July, “Being the first official pro to sign with Ironduke.com is very flattering. Their software is very clean and the site is really growing. It’s only getting better.” Her prediction was correct. According to poker traffic ranking site PokerScout.com, the Merge Gaming Network boasts a seven day running average of 475 cash game players with a peak of 802.

30 Dollar Beats

On the last Sunday of every month, the site offers a $50,000 freeroll. Anyone who accrues more than 5,000 Comp Points during a calendar month is eligible. Weekly $10,000 freerolls as well as other opportunities for free money are available. In addition to the Texas Hold’em bad beat jackpot, Caribbean Stud has several jackpots. In the seven card game, the amount players can win through the bad beat jackpot is based on bet size.