Is it worth it to play the 2/4 bad beat jack pot tables on PArty?

[spacebetween]

how many ptbb/100 hands the bad beat jackpots represents?

[Big_Jim]

It's glaringly obvious that it's -EV, if you ignore the impact that it has on the player pool.

Just how -EV? I dunno.

[Big_Jim]

If anybody actually cares enough to try to work this out, this might help:

http://www.math.sfu.ca/%7Ealspach/comp46.pdf

[Dazarath]

Do they run NL BBJ tables now? That'd be kind of cool.

[KnifeParty11]

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Do they run NL BBJ tables now? That'd be kind of cool.

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welcome to 2005

[Big_Jim]

btw: Their conclusion is that in a ten handed game, the odds of a "qualifying semi-deal" (meaning that all players see showdown) are 155,000:1 against.

Of course, lots of the hands that would have qualified never see a flop, let alone a river, or there aren't 4 people dealt into the hand, and thus it doesn't qualify.

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Thus, a bad-beat qualifying semi-deal is unlikely under these rules.

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[gir]

So....At $400,000 or more...ish? Maybe half a million or more? Actually, considering that you only get a fraction of the % if you win, it's probably closer to $750,000 or $1,000,000 which it never even comes close to...Damn it...I was really hoping for it to happen to me!

[The White Rabbit]

According to bonuswhores.com, the BB jackpot has to be $307k+ at 400NL to be +EV.

http://www.bonuswhores.com/party-poker.php

Also consider that as the jackpot gets bigger, more and more fish are attracted to the BBJ tables.

[FionnMac]

Forget the jackpot, the players seem sufficiently weaker to make it worth it.

[gir]

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According to bonuswhores.com, the BB jackpot has to be $307k+ at 400NL to be +EV.

http://www.bonuswhores.com/party-poker.php

Also consider that as the jackpot gets bigger, more and more fish are attracted to the BBJ tables.

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307k assuming people are playing 74s in raised pots. Cut out at least half the terrible, unplayable hands and you're looking at at least 600k+.