{"id":499,"date":"2008-07-16T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/general\/bad-beat-not-when-25-cents-becomes-168000.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:17:38","slug":"bad-beat-not-when-25-cents-becomes-168000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/bad-beat-not-when-25-cents-becomes-168000.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad beat? Not when 25 cents becomes $168,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Simon Young <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PartyPoker player <strong>danne76 <\/strong>was looking forward to a nice double up on his .10c\/.25c cash table after flopping a straight flush. His joy turned to despair, however, when <strong>FrankHRO1972 <\/strong>amazingly made a bigger straight flush on the turn.<\/p>\n<p>Just as frustrated <strong>danne76<\/strong>, who started the hand with $8.87, was thinking about reloading, something quite remarkable happened: The group of six had been playing on a PartyPoker jackpot cash table, and straight flush over straight flush scooped the Bad Beat Jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>His bad beat, which started with just a 25 cent bet, won him an incredible $168,408.24! <strong>FrankHRO1972 <\/strong>got $84,204.12 for winning the bad beat hand (a little more than the $16.69 pot!), and everyone else at the table who got out of the way &#8211; <strong>cbeetje<\/strong>, <strong>rubinlars<\/strong>, <strong>checkjack77<\/strong>, and <strong>Diebmann<\/strong>,  pocketed $21,051.03 just for being there.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened. <strong>danne76 <\/strong>limped in for 25 cents with 6-8 spades, then called when <strong>FrankHRO1972 <\/strong>raised it to 50 cents with his J-Q spades. Everyone else folded to see the 9-7-10 all spades flop, givining <strong>danne76 <\/strong>the nuts with his straight flush. He cheekily checked and was somewhat chuffed when Frank bet out $4.25 &#8211; insta-call. When the turn came K of spades, making <strong>FrankHRO1972 <\/strong>the higher straight flush, they both checked thinking they were trapping each other.<\/p>\n<p>Finally <strong>danne76 <\/strong>moved all in for his last $4.12 on the meaningless 5 of clubs river, naturally called by <strong>FrankHRO1972<\/strong>. That&#8217;s when everything went bananas and the huge jackpot kicked in.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to turn a beat into a jackpot just like <strong>danne76<\/strong>, then join our jackpot tables. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/news\/events\/items\/bad_beat2.html\">find out more about our Bad Beat Jackpot  here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Simon Young PartyPoker player danne76 was looking forward to a nice double up on his .10c\/.25c cash table after flopping a straight flush. His joy turned to despair, however, when FrankHRO1972 amazingly made a bigger straight flush on the turn. Just as frustrated danne76, who started the hand with $8.87, was thinking about reloading,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/bad-beat-not-when-25-cents-becomes-168000.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77458,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/77458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}