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Poker: First Mega Bad Beat hits for $365,401 at Seminole Hollywood
> Posted by Nick Sortal on January 5, 2010 07:01 AM
Two Fort Lauderdale men each took home more than $100,000 each for getting lucky at one hand of poker.
The men are the first to hit the Mega Bad Beat jackpot,
which started building up Dec. 1 at the six Florida poker rooms operated by the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
A bad beat is when a player with an apparently unbeatable hand loses to a better hand. The Seminoles put the minimum losing hand at four 10s.
So at 10:45 p.m. Sunday at Seminole Hollywood Classic, Roderick Jones drew the 6 and 7 of club and Harvey Langer got the jack and queen of clubs. The flop, turn and river included three cards in the middle, the 8-9-10, giving each player a straight flush.
Jones got $182,705 and Harvey Langer won $109,622. The seven other players at the table split the remaining $73,081, or $10,440 per person.
Langer is at left, with dealer Jennifer Roach in one photo and poker manager Warren Targia in the other. Jones is on the right.
The cumulative Mega Bad Beat Jackpot was reset at $132,703 and is again growing.
Dealers rake $1 contribution from each pot of $10 or greater to stoke the bad beat pool. It's at: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, Seminole Casino Immokalee, Seminole Casino Brighton, and Seminole Casino Hollywood.
The Seminoles' quote:
“Only the Seminole Casinos can offer the Mega Bad Beat Jackpot, so we’re excited to announce this jackpot so soon after its debut. By combining the bad beat jackpots of six casinos, the life-changing winnings are greater for our patrons,” said Jeffrey Hook, vice president of marketing for Seminole Gaming.
Previously, the Seminole casinos poker rooms had been offering bad beat jackpots at their own casinos.
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