Poker Loser Scoops $110k Bad Beat Jackpot

The MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit, Michigan will forever hold fond memories for a number of poker players after they got to share a huge $368,059 Bad Beat Jackpot which had been building for months.
The hand in question took place at 5:30 p.m. on New Year’s Day, when a player with quad 4s lost a hand of Texas hold ’em to another holding four 6s. Ordinarily, that would be considered a particularly bad beat in poker, but when the casino has a special jackpot payout set-up to compensate for such an occurrence, then no one involved in the hand is likely to decry their bad luck.
The end result of the hand played at a $1/$2 cash table was that the losing player received 40% of the total $368,059 jackpot worth $110,417, while the winner collected a nifty 20% of the total or $55,208. However, the celebrations didn’t end there and the remaining seven players received a share worth $15,800 a piece simply for being at the table when the hand occurred.
In spite of all the jubilations, one poor soul will have a bigger than most bad luck story to tell after having a losing afternoon and giving up his seat briefly to hit the ATM. That’s when Detroit’s second-biggest bad beat jackpot struck and he narrowly missed out on a share of the money.
Nevertheless, he wasn’t the only disappointed punter in the casino that night as numerous poker players had been hoping for a slice of the ever growing pie for weeks.  As MotorCity poker room manager Brian Nelson, 41, explains, the huge Bad Beat Jackpot had become quite the focus of conversation at the casino  in recent times, with customers chatting about “How they’re going to spend it when they win it” or the fanciful side deals they would make if they were at the table when it was released. However, patience is now the key as the jackpot has since been re-set and will likely take several months before being hit again.