[yeltzen]

Are they as stupid to play in as I think? I'm talking about ones where a special rake is taken.

[boondocker96]

I have a buddy that unknowingly bought in at 2-4 NL Jackpot table....
He thought is was Limit, and when he realized it wasnt (a couple hands in), he promptly gathered his chips and signed in at another table. TWO hands later, the NL table he was on hits the jackpot. $27,000 for the table.
Most of the $$ goes to the two players in the hand(the other 8 got like $1600 each), but Ive never seen such a bummed "Oh what could have been" look on anyones face. Poor bastard.


Not really answering you question Boris, but you just reminded me of that story.

[yeltzen]

God that would suck. But, being the optimist that I am, what if he had stayed and in one of the hands, gone all in and lost, then had to get up and leave and THEN heard they hit the jackpot. See? It coulda been worse.

That really blows though.

[luckychick]

The extra rake sucks.

If it's low limit though, it's not like the play is any different. The only exception I saw is I played at Excalibur once, and you get to "spin the wheel" when you get AA cracked - so people often limp with AA, thereby either getting a lot of action with them, or losing and usually winninng as much or more than the pot anyway.

I was in Tahoe last weekend and they have jackpots at Harvey's. I was at a table where some guy with the ass-end of the straight flush hit the jackpot... it had just been won the day before though so it wasn't very big. I got $80 for nuttin'. None-the-less, if you have other options, I would say just skip it. The extra rake is not worth it - unless buying lottery tickets is your thing.

[SingleMaltFan]

i played at flamingo once, 2-4 limit, they had a High hand Jackpot, i caught quad J's after flopping a FH j's full of 9's..nice pot, but also got put on the HH list..unfortunately they ran out of money after paying the quad queens...

sorry cant comment about online

1malt

[yeltzen]

Well, I dunno a whole lot about rake structures and how they effect this type of game, but these Party jackpot tables are so loose /passive it's ridiculous. Here's a quality example:


***** Hand History for Game 3674096450 *****
$2/$4 Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 05, 15:09:56 ET 2006
Table High Hand Jackpot Alpha Wave (Real Money)

RAZBO posts small blind [$1].
poundtown posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hi_Im_Boris [ 6s 5s ]
BigBlues4u2 folds.
DarkGeneral folds.
Justmyluc calls [$2].
magbarue folds.
jfergsher folds.
>You have options at High Hand Jackpot Amphitrite Table!.
Hi_Im_Boris calls [$2].
Ruucy folds.
RAZBO calls [$1].
poundtown checks.

** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, 3h, 5c ]
RAZBO bets [$2].
>You have options at High Hand Jackpot Amphitrite Table!.
poundtown raises [$4].
Justmyluc calls [$4].
Hi_Im_Boris raises [$6].
RAZBO calls [$4].
poundtown raises [$4].
Justmyluc calls [$4].
Hi_Im_Boris calls [$2].
RAZBO calls [$2].

** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
RAZBO checks.
poundtown checks.
Justmyluc checks.
Hi_Im_Boris bets [$4].
RAZBO calls [$4].
poundtown calls [$4].
>You have options at High Hand Jackpot Amphitrite Table!.
Justmyluc calls [$4].

** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
smartsie has joined the table.
RAZBO checks.
poundtown checks.
Justmyluc checks.
Hi_Im_Boris bets [$4].
RAZBO folds.
poundtown folds.
Justmyluc calls [$4].

Hi_Im_Boris shows [ 6s, 5s ] two pairs, sixes and fives.
Justmyluc doesn't show [ Ac, As ] a pair of aces.
Hi_Im_Boris wins $60.50 from the main pot with two pairs, sixes and fives.
>You have options at High Hand Jackpot Amphitrite Table!.

[DoubleDeuce]

A buddy relayed this story to me the other day...

"Our hero has 99 in the BB on a 2/4 limit table at Party Poker (ooo party party). 4 limpers and hero checks. Flop is 9d-9c-Tc. Yeehaw. Hero bets, another player raises, call, fold, call, hero reraises, call, fold, call. Turn is Jc. Hero bets, raise, fold, hero reraises, call. River is Qc. Hero bets, raise, hero reraises, cap, call. Villain of course shows 7c8c for the straight flush.

Sucks, right, quads flopped and you lose. BOO.

But wait. See this was on Party's bad beat jackpot tables. Their stipulations are quad 8s or better beaten and both hole cards must play. WHOO HOO. Hero is rich! But wait. Villain has a SIX card str8 flush. They turned it, using both of their cards. But the river was the only card in the deck that could kill the jackpot, costing hero $39,000, or about 9500 BB. And likely their sanity."

[yeltzen]

Party's rules for the jackpot are totally idiotic.
I'm surprised anyone ever wins the thing.

[Captn_All_In]

More than likely that is the idea!!

Would be pretty handy to never have to give those prizes away!!!