Texas Woman Hits UB Bad Beat Jackpot

They say that everything is bigger in Texas – apparently, this even applies to bad beat jackpots. A sixty-year-old woman from Ferris, Texas won over $218,000 this week as her quad nines were cracked at one of Ultimate Bet’s Bad Beat Jackpot tables.

The woman, who goes by the screen name KAPPIT, was stunned to find that her pocket nines were upended by a player named “CIBV,” who had made quad queens. But KAPPIT’s dismay soon turned into joy, as she realized what had just happened. Although she was playing at a relatively low limit – $0.25/$0.50 – she was about to find her bankroll expanding exponentially.

The total jackpot at the time was a cool $670,575.38, with the biggest share going to KAPPIT for losing the jackpot hand. CIBC, as the winner, won just over $109,000 – certainly a little more than what was in the fateful pot itself. The other seven players at their table each received an even $1,000 just for playing at the table, and 610 other players won $89.36 for playing at the same stakes as the winning game at the time it was hit.

“I’ve been playing poker for 45 years now, and I hit a jackpot once in a land-based casino,” KAPPIT said to UB. “This is the biggest prize I’ve ever gotten, though.”

2010 has been a big year for bad beat jackpots on Ultimate Bet, with over $9.3 million being handed out for 63 qualifying bad beats.  Over 11,000 players have won at least a small prize in association with one of these jackpots. Only players playing at specially designated Bad Beat Jackpot tables are eligible for the jackpot, which is funded by a small addition to the rake at these tables.

The bad beat jackpot is a traditional bonus given out at many online and brick and mortar casinos, in recognition of particularly brutal losses at the poker table. In the case of Ultimate Bet, a player must use both hole cards and lose with quad eights or better in order to win the jackpot. Of each jackpot, 25% is rolled over into the next bad beat jackpot, 10% is saved for the house; half of the remaining amount is given to the victim, while 25% goes to the hand’s winner.