Bad Beat Jackpots
 

I just noticed a new feature on Absolute with a bad beat jackpot that's around $350k now. Have any of you guys hit this before?

I know Party has one for about $100k, but haven't seen this elsewhere. Does anyone else offer this? How big do these get?

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I think the party one has been over a million a while back I'm positive it's been between 500k and a million a couple of times. It only pays 35% to the winner though.

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GAY

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what's the exact payout breakdown - winner, loser, table, house?

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Absolute keeps 10%, of the other 90% the loser gets 50%, the winner gets 25% and the rest of the table splits the other 25%. Think of it as nothing more then a sneaky way to take extra rake.

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Think of it as nothing more then a sneaky way to take extra rake.

[/ QUOTE ] Exactly. I've only played their once since they introduced this, but damn near all the limit HE tables were now bad beat jackpot. Not sure if it's better to play the non-bad beat tables, where presumably other ppl who know how bad of a deal it is are, or just suck it up and try to overcome the extra rake with ppl wanting a chance at the jackpot.

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Absolute keeps 10%, of the other 90% the loser gets 50%, the winner gets 25% and the rest of the table splits the other 25%. Think of it as nothing more then a sneaky way to take extra rake.

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Actually AP takes 10%, 20% is taken to reseed the BBJ, and the remainder is split 50/25/25 (loser/winner/table share)

You can think of it as a sneaky way to take extra rake, but it has also definitly softened up the tables there. No more 13/8 games at the 1/2 LHE.

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I know Party has one for about $100k, but haven't seen this elsewhere. Does anyone else offer this?

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Prima skins also offer a bad beat progressive

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I play live in AC at ceasers and they dont take any of the jackpot. but 20% does roll over into the next one.

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This thing is at $425,000 now. I played last night for a while and everyone was talking about hitting it...it was like a madhouse, everyone playing with terrible hands. Gimmick or not, I think I like what this Bad Beat Jackpot does for the fish. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Play seems a lot softer lately, at what point is it plus EV to hit those tables?

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Play seems a lot softer lately, at what point is it plus EV to hit those tables?

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My normal game is 1/2NL on Stars and Bodog. I usually play MTTs on AP due to there rarely being full ring games and now there are 10-12 full 9 handed 1/2 games that make any micro Bodog game look like 100/200 live. The absolute worst play ever, you will get calls by two straight flush cards (6s, 8s)on a one spade flop that are dead to runner runner. It's the same contribution to the BBJ at all levels .50 per raked hand + the normal rake, but I've seen people up 4-5 buyins where that would never happen 3-5 months ago.