Absolute Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Nears $600,000

Most poker players are out to win that great hand but players at Absolute Poker are crossing their fingers and toes in hopes to lose thier next big Texas Hold'em hand. 

This may sound funny to you now but as of Tuesday afternoon Absolute Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot had climbed over $596,000 dollars and is on the verge of setting a new online poker jackpot record.

Absolute Poker pays players for their losing hands and fans from all over the globe are now headed to the site to get the chance to grab the jackpot and make a little profit by getting their impossible to lose hand, beat.

The Bad Beat Jackpot is just like regular Texas Hold'em but with a little difference.  If a player loses a Texas Hold'em hand holding four eights or anything better while sitting at a Bad Beat Jackpot table and loses they will win a large chunk of the Bad Beat Jackpot and the winner of the hand and the rest of the players sitting at the table will also get a share of the jackpot.