The Lodge Card Club delivered a $289,376 jackpot to a bunch of lucky gamers in a $1-$2-$5 pot-limit Omaha recreation on Tuesday. The hand noticed two gamers flop straight flushes and each received all their chips in, resulting in the biggest unhealthy beat jackpot awarded in Texas poker site historical past.
On a flop of 5
4 3, one participant held A 2 Ok
6 for a five-high straight flush and one other held 7 6 A
Ok for a seven-high straight flush.
“In 99.9% of the pot-limit Omaha games in the world, this would be the end of the (sad) story for the five-high straight flush,” the poker site famous on Twitter. “But thanks to the Lodge bad beat – a prize that started 190 days ago at $100,000 and increased by $1,000 per day – that player walked away with the biggest share of a $290,000 prize.”
High Fives And Fist Pumps
A video of the hand exhibits loads of celebrating after gamers realized simply how robust every participant’s hand was and the great payouts awaiting them. In addition to the desk shares, The Lodge in Round Rock, which is co-owned by poker professional Doug Polk and poker vloggers Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme, additionally paid out a $200 room share to each money recreation participant on the Austin and San Antonio places.
A foul beat jackpot is a promotion held at many poker rooms that collects a small quantity from every money recreation pot to seed the prize pool. The jackpot is triggered when a premium hand loses to an excellent higher hand. At the Lodge, that equates to shedding with quad 10s or higher in no-limit maintain’em whereas utilizing two playing cards, and shedding with a straight flush in PLO on the flop solely.
The Lodge unhealthy beat jackpot pays out 50% to the participant with the shedding hand, 25% to the winner, and the remaining to different money recreation gamers within the rooms on the time. That meant the “losing” participant with the five-high straight flush scored $144,688 and the winner grabbed $72,344.
Watch the response of the gamers beneath.
$290,000 BAD BEAT HITS @LodgePokerATX pic.twitter.com/3Ilo6azbIN
— Lodge Card Club (@LodgePokerClub) February 5, 2025
The Lodge got here near awarding a $115,000 unhealthy beat jackpot in August. Two gamers each flopped straight flushes and seemed to be in line to money in on the jackpot of virtually $115,000. However, per the cardboard room’s guidelines, a one-outer ace on the river gave one participant a royal flush and nixed any unhealthy beat payouts.
In September, quads over quads triggered a $1.6 million jackpot on the Playground Poker Club in Montreal. The property has develop into a hotspot for enormous unhealthy beat payouts together with a file CAD $2.6 million jackpot in August 2023.
