The Bad Beat Jackpot has been a popular promotion since the beginning here at Playground Poker Club. Over the years the BBJ has changed a few times, and the next version of the Bad Beat Jackpot – which is actually THREE Jackpots – starts immediately.
The new Bad Beat Jackpot has three elements. First is the Primary BBJ: the jackpot starts at whopping $100K and the minimum qualifying hand starts at Quad Aces (in other words, a player has to lose a hand with AAAA including the pocket AA to a straight flush or better) in week one. But then it gets fun… the minimum qualifying hand goes down every second week thereafter.
The Secondary BBJ requires a player to lose a minimum $20 pot with AAAKK (including a pocket pair). The third element is a new Omaha BBJ – losing with Quad 8s just got a lot more interesting!
The new Jackpots are in place today because the OLD version of the BBJ was won earlier today! The Jackpot was won on Table 7 in a hand between a player visiting the club for the first time and a well-known and well-respected regular player here at Playground Poker.
The hand was a classic 
vs 
hand and when the flop came out 
it was set over set… but the stage was also set for much more. The 
came on the turn and all of a sudden a bad beat became a Bad Beat Jackpot hand of Quad Kings over a Full House Aces full of Kings.
The jackpot was $75,000 which was shared between all cash game players playing at the time. Congratulations to all!
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