...was the total amount of the Bad Beat jackpot that I was not only a witness to, but was sitting at the table when it happened.
Now I have seen bad beats happen in card rooms before, but this was definitely my first experience of one occurring while I was sitting and playing at the table that it happened at.
Today I went to the Riverwind casino just on the south side of Norman, OK. I have played here many times and the poker room and the rest of the casino are extremely nice for being an Indian casino. Most of the other ones I have been to have been ratty little dumps. Anyways on to the good part...
I bought in for $100 at one of the $1-$2 NL tables and got into playing. After about an hour or so, I was up about $300 and had cleaned 2 different people out, twice. That's when "the hand" took place. I was in the BB and 4 other players limped in for the $2. I checked.
Flop comes:
I led out with a small bet and the 2 players to my left both folded. The next player to act, raised from $10 to $40. The player to his left, last to act... called. I promptly folded [thank god...].
Turn comes:
Now that the last 2 players were heads up, the guy in first position, decides to make his move and go All-In... and pushes the last $50 or so that he had into the pot. The guy he was HU against, insta-called and flipped over:
The dealer goes ahead and deals the river card before the All-In shows his hand and the River card comes:
That's when Mr. All-In flips his cards over to show his hand:
Thanks to the river card... we had Quad Js over Quad 7s and the bad beat jackpot was split amongst us. The loser in this hand took home $10,818 while the winner with the JJs took home $6488. The rest of the table split the difference between the 7 of us and each got a nice payday of $620.
I left soon after to go eat dinner but was up over $1200 off my $100 initial buy-in. Very exciting time... just wanted to share.
R.
