Having already set a record for a bad jackpot in the US in 2022, Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino produced another big payout for eight No Limit Hold’em players on Tuesday night. The lucky winners won a share of the $905,622 grand prize.
Casinos that offer bad jackpot promotions take a dollar from each cash game pool to add to the jackpot prize pool. A push is triggered when a qualifying advantage hand is beaten by a larger hand. In this case, one player held four aces, but was beaten by another player with a Royal Flush.
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Scott Thompson, of Washington, Pennsylvania, was the big winner by effectively losing a hand. His four aces were worth 40% of the jackpot for a top payout of $362,250. Brent Enos, of Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania, won the royal flush and took home 30% of the prize pool at $271,686.
In Rivers, the remaining players at the table split the final 30% evenly. That worked out to $45,281 for each of the other six players at the table.
“We have unexpectedly and happily become a national jackpot hotspot,” Rivers General Manager Bud Green said. “Congratulations to our winning guests and to the Rivers Pittsburgh Poker Room team for doing a great job.”
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Green points to some other recent payments into Pittsburgh ownership. The casino set a US jackpot record in August 2022 with a payout of $1.2 million.
That jackpot saw a player from West Virginia win $490,708, a player from Pittsburgh win $368,029, and the remaining six players at the table each won $61,338.
This year also saw some major prizes at Playground Poker Club in Quebec, Canada. The most recent came in October with A.J Bastard – scoundrel $1.3 million ($949,480) American dollar) will be spent. The property also received a grand prize of Bastard – scoundrel $2.6 million ($1.9 million). American dollar) in August.
