bad beat jackpot

Bad Beat Jackpot

The current Bad Beat Jackpot as of Friday, May 09 04:35:00 EDT is $19932.91

Congratulations to the latest Bad Beat Jackpot winner tessthemess who hit on Friday, May 09 11:51:00 EDT at the table Lava to the tune of $56137.66!

We're turning the poker world completely upside down and on its head!

UltimateBet has set out to accomplish the impossible - we're going to give some of our unluckiest players a bad beat story that EVERYONE will want to hear. Players who sit down at our Bad Beat Jackpot tables can win big when they lose large.

What, exactly, is a bad beat?

When the worst hand comes from behind to beat a better one, is that a bad beat? No! A bad beat is when the worst hand comes from behind to beat YOUR better hand. Bad beats are personal - it feels like there's some vast conspiracy against you. And when you corner some poor soul to tell them the sordid details, no one ever wants to hear your bad beat stories! Not even the one where you raised with Aces and this IDIOT called with Jack-Four suited.

Your loss is your gain!

If you lose with quad Eights or better you'll take home a hefty cut of the Bad Beat Jackpot that grows by leaps and bounds with every hand that's dealt at our Bad Beat tables. We collect $.50 from every raked pot at our Bad Beat tables to build up the Jackpot until some desperately unlucky soul gets coolered by a cold deck...and wins a bundle!

Get in the loser's circle and win!

Since we don't want anyone at the winning table telling bad beat stories, we'll share the wealth like no one else in online poker.

When the jackpot is hit, 25% will remain in the jackpot to seed the new jackpot. 10% goes to the house, and the rest of the cash goes to the players. The player suffering the bad beat gets half, the lucky duck who won the hand gets a quarter, the other players dealt in the hand get $1,000 each and the remaining 25% (and this is where it gets interesting) is divided amongst ALL bad beat players at that limit and game type.
It is the Ultimate Bad Beat Jackpot and it is only at UB. Everybody wins especially the loser!

Terms and Conditions

  • Not all tables qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot. Texas Hold’Em Bad Beat Jackpot tables will be noted with the word "jackpot" written in brackets after the table name and will be categorized in red text in the lobby.
  • In order to qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot, four or more players must be dealt in the hand and rake must be collected.
  • The losing hand must contain four eights (8888) or better.
  • Players sitting out at the Bad Beat Jackpot table are not eligible for the jackpot.
  • Both hole cards must be included in the winning and losing hand.
  • The hand must go to a showdown in order to qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot.
  • If there are two or more hands that qualify for the jackpot within one hand, then the two highest hands will be considered for the jackpot, with the highest hand being the winning hand (the winner) and the second highest hand winning the bad beat (the loser of the hand)
  • Should two qualifying jackpot hands hit at precisely the same time, the jackpot will be awarded to the hand that began first according to the UB game time.
  • UltimateBet does not tolerate collusion. All players must act independently and not reveal their hands to other players, nor tell them how to act. Failure to abide by these rules will result in automatic disqualification from the Bad Beat Jackpot.
  • The Bad Beat Jackpot collects $0.50 from the pot of each raked hand that is raked $0.25 or more. Only hands with a rake higher than $0.25 are eligible for the Bad Beat Jackpot
  • A player qualifies for a bad beat jackpot portion (share) if he plays on a bad beat jackpot table and 4 players must have been dealt.

Jackpot Payout Example

$100K jackpot hits at a 2/4 Limit HE table, 10 players were dealt into the hand
25K held for next jackpot
10K fee taken
32,500 paid to bad beat recipient
16,250 paid to winner of the hand
$8K (1K each) is paid to the 8 other players who were dealt into the hand
$8,250 is divided amongst all the players playing 2/4 limit Hold'em at the time the jackpot hits, players must not be sitting out at the time (they don't have to have an active hand though, but they must have been dealt cards in at least one hand at the table they are at)