Bad Beat Jackpot is a popular
promotion at online poker sites. If a player holds a very high
ranking hand but gets beaten by a player who holds an even
higher poker ranking hand then the Bad Beat Jackpot comes into
play. The amount in the jackpot pool at that time is distributed
among the players at the table where the Bad Beat occurred. The
exact mechanism of the Bad Beat Jackpot promotion varies from
online poker site to online poker site.
Some online poker sites offer a similar promotion called Royal Flush Jackpot. AbsolutePoker.com is one of them. To get a royal flush hand is every poker player’s dream. Because this hand is very rare poker players look forward to winning a packet on such hands. But what if a player gets a royal flush and every one else has folded, or the pot contains a pittance. The royal flush is wasted. The Royal Flush Jackpot ensures that players are handsomely rewarded when they draw a royal flush.
At the online poker site AbsolutePoker.com the Royal Flush Jackpot operates in the following manner. In the first instance this promotion is available only on designated Pot Limit Omaha tables. At these tables $0.50 is collected from the pot to contribute to the jackpot, which therefore keeps rising with every hand played. At least four players must be dealt into the hand. The player must use two of the four hole cards to make the royal flush. The hand must go to a showdown.
When a player makes a royal flush after meeting all requirements of the promotion the Royal Flush Jackpot is distributed in the following manner. 65% of the jackpot is split among the players, 25% is used to seed the next jackpot and 10% goes to the house. Of the amount that goes to the players, 50% goes to the player holding the royal flush, 25% is divided among the players at the table who were dealt cards in the hand where the royal flush was made and 25% is dealt to other players at the designated Royal Flush Jackpot tables subject to certain conditions.