Merge Gaming Network Bad Beat Jackpot

All poker players go through more than a fair share of bad beats in their life time. We all have been there, done that. Controlling the hand with a monster hand until that river card has been revealed and your opponent decides to call your bet. Showdown reveals your 4 of a kind has just been spanked like a bad school girl.

What do you do next, punch a wall? Throw your beer across the room? Take a baseball bat to your computer? No need to go through all of that. What if I told you that big hand you lost could have won you thousands of dollars! Yes, you could have won thousands of dollars from having a bad beat.

Carbon Poker and Aced offers bad beat jackpot cash game tables for fixed limit and no limit texas holdem. These poker tables take $0.50 from each pot that goes towards the bad beat jackpot. Aced and Carbon Poker are on the merge gaming network which allows the bad beat jackpot to quickly grow over $100,000. So any poker player thinking you may not hit the jackpot. Ask yourself, “Is $0.50 from the pot worth a chance to win the bad beat jackpot?”

The loser of the hand wins the bad beat jackpot, so if your four of kind 7s or higher get beat by four of kind 8s or higher than you will receive 35% of the bad beat jackpot, the winner of the hand receives 17.5%, and the rest of the players dealt into the hand splits 17.5% while 20% goes to reseeding the bad beat jackpot, and 10% goes to the merge gaming network for providing the bad beat tables.

Bad Beat Jackpot requirements:

• The losing hand must be at least a Four of a Kind 7′s
• The winning hand must be at least a Four of a Kind 8′s
• Both the winning and losing hands must include both hole cards.
• At least four players must be dealt in at the start of the hand
• The hand must have generated jackpot rake (ie. $0.50)
• Two or more players must be active at the end of the hand, and it must go to showdown.
• Poker Rooms does not tolerate collusion. All players must act independently and not reveal their hands to other players, nor tell them how to act. Failure to adhere to this requirement will result in automatic disqualification from the Bad Beat Jackpot.
• Players sitting out at the Bad Beat Jackpot tables are not eligible for the Bad Beat Jackpot.
• Should two qualifying jackpot hands hit at precisely the same time, the jackpot will be awarded to the hand that began first according to the server time. The second of the qualifying bad beat hands would be eligible for the reseeded Bad Beat Jackpot.
• If there are two or more hands that qualify for the jackpot within one hand, then the two highest hands will be considered for the jackpot, with the highest hand being the winning hand and the second highest hand winning the bad beat.