When you lose with a really good hand it is considered a bad beat. At Absolute Poker, if you lose a hand holding four eights (8888) or anything better, that’s a bad beat.

If you lose a hand with four eights or better you win the bad beat jackpot!

Not all tables qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot. You will see Bad Beat Jackpot tables at Absolute Poker with the word “jackpot” written in brackets after the table name and they will be categorized in red text in the lobby. There are all different levels of blinds so anyone from a beginner to an advanced player can play Bad Beat Poker.

Basically, Absolute Poker collects $0.50 from the pot of each raked hand that is raked .25 or more. That goes into the jackpot. The Bad Beat poker jackpot will keep growing until someone hits an unbelievable bad beat.

Everyone at the table can win a piece of the prize.

As soon as someone hits a qualifying bad beat, 65% of the jackpot will be shared between everyone at the online poker table where the bad beat went down. 25% will go towards the next jackpot and 10% will go to the house.

The loser of the hand – ie. the bad beat victim - will take 50% of the prize

The winner of the hand will take 25% of the prize

The rest of the players seated at the table will share the remaining 25%

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Bad Beat Jackpot Winners

Here are the latest lucky losers - you could be the next one.

Date	NickName	JackPot Amount	Winner Hand
2008-01-15	ROMANS1_20	$59,958.22	Four of a kind, queens
2008-01-13	ITALIANMEX	$140,190.52	Straight flush, five
2008-01-05	SCHRAY05	$110,276.35	Four of a kind, eights
2007-12-31	BALDBUSH33	$189,251.89	Four of a kind, eights
2007-12-19	TRIZIP	$51,122.51	Four of a kind, nines

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