He says the suspect was none other than the man who had been sitting next to him all night. The 52-year-old victim says he pulled out $1,000 and gave it to the knife-wielding man who then took off running.

'As I'm washing my hands he comes up next to me, pulls out a knife and starts swinging at my face and my neck. 'He must have followed me in, waited for me,' the man said. In December 2021, the bad beat jackpot at GGPoker hit a whopping five times over a 24-hour period, and the poker site paid out more than $1 million during that short span.Įarlier this year, the same poker site awarded its largest pot-limit Omaha jackpot of $593,177, spread out among the six players at the table.The man was robbed at knifepoint at 12:30 Tuesday morning. Online poker sites such as GGPoker have regular bad beat jackpots running. Once a jackpot hits, the pot is decreased to a reserve fund that is much lower than when it last hit. These rules, of course, vary depending on the card room. In most cases, the winning and losing players in the hand must play both hole cards to qualify. Rules for triggering the jackpot differ from casino to casino, but the standard is aces full of jacks losing to quads or better.

It all depends on the card room, and the pots range anywhere from $5,000 to what was witnessed at Rivers Casino earlier this week. Most bad beat jackpots don't come close to reaching seven figures before hitting. This past June, at the very same casino, a record-setting $2.2 million jackpot hit, with the winner, who lost with quad 10's, received approximately $845,000. Delarosbil was paid $460,149, while Galle took home $230,088. In August 2017, across the border in Canada, a $1,210,989 bad beat jackpot at hit Playground Poker Club when Shane Galle rivered a straight flush against the quad jacks of Elphege Delarosbil at a $1/2 no-limit hold'em table. The total jackpot pool was at $1,068,590, more than $200,000 less than was paid out at Rivers Casino this week. In 2018, a player won $427,452 at Motor City Casino in Detroit when his quad threes lost to quad kings. The $1.22 million awarded at Rivers was far and away the largest in United States live poker history. Biggest But Not the Only Massive Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Poker bad beat jackpot at Motor City Casino in Detroit, MI (2018).

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