Absolute´s Bad Beat bonus hits again

Absolute Poker.com's innovative Bad Beat Jackpot continues to attract action and bail out bad beat victims, with the latest payout being to an online player who lost a Texas Hold Em hand with quad Aces, hitting the highest Bad Beat Jackpot yet and winning over $160 000 in cash.

"With nearly one million hands dealt since the last hit on July 3rd, our Bad Beat Jackpot had climbed to over $464 000," commented David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker. "Online poker players flooded the site in record numbers for a shot at winning an unfathomable amount of cash just by losing a hand."

On July 11th at 11:46 pm ET, an online poker player who goes by the name of Calvinhobbes did just that, losing quad Aces to a Royal Flush in a friendly game of Texas Hold'em at Absolute Poker.

At most online poker rooms and land-based casinos, a loss like that would be disappointing to say the least, but not on this occasion. The player was seated at one of Absolute Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot tables where if a player loses a hand holding four 8s or anything better at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, he or she hits the Bad Beat jackpot. To help the jackpot build, $0.50 is collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables.

By the evening of July 11th, the jackpot had reached a record $464 652.03, eclipsing the previous jackpot of $297 287.63 that was hit on July 3rd.

Calvinhobbes' share of the BBjackpot stands at $162 628.21. The participants in the bad beat jackpot hand shared an additional $162 628.21 with the pot winner, taking over $81 000 and the remaining players walked away with over $20 000 apiece.

Absolute Poker claims it is the only online poker site open to American players to feature Bad Beat Jackpot tables. Bad Beat Jackpot tables are flagged with the word "jackpot" written in brackets after the table name and are categorised in red text.