The second largest bad beat jackpot in live poker history — CAD $2,275,388 (approximately $1.7 million USD) — hit recently at Playground Poker Club in Quebec, Canada.
Playground has played host to many of the biggest bad beat jackpots ever, and that includes the biggest of them all. One poker player took the largest share of a $1.9 million (USD) bad beat pot in August 2023, a record that still stands.
Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Details
A $2/$5 no-limit hold'em cash game player named Elie picked up 9♠9♣ in a hand on Sept. 27 at the popular Canadian poker room. The board would run out A♣9♥K♣9♦A♠, making his hand unbeatable.You might be wondering how the second nuts could possibly be unbeatable, and that is because a loss with quads against better quads would trigger the bad beat jackpot. Another player in the game named Yann did indeed have the A♥A♦ in the hole for a superior four-of-a-kind. That meant the near-record bad beat jackpot had set off and all the players in the game were about to get paid.
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I've always wanted to go to Playground Poker. Huge cash for the winners of the bad beat jackpot!
