Lightning Strikes Twice in the Desert as Poker Player Wins Bad Beat Jackpot Twice in One Hour
Many land-based poker rooms offer players a bad beat jackpot, usually requiring aces full to get beaten by four of a kind or higher. Naturally, the chances of such situations occurring are rather slim, so card rooms pour thousands of dollars into bad beat jackpots to provide a lucrative bonus to tempt poker players to stay and play. Typically, when a bad beat jackpot is hit, the player with the winning hand receives 25%, the player with the losing (badly beaten) hand receives 50%, and the other players at that poker table split the remaining 25%.
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Useful poker information:
- OVER - A term used in describing two pair or a full house. "Kings over tens" means two pair, kings and tens. "Jacks over", also "Jacks up" describes a hand that is two pair: Jacks with an unspecified lower pair. Also used to describe a full house, distinguishing the three of a kind from the pair. The hand J-J-J-A-A could be described as "Full house, Jacks over Aces".
- CHASE - To continue in a hand, often at poor odds, in the hopes of catching a much better hand. "He called, chasing the flush.".
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- BLANK - Used in describing stud and Hold'em games. Refers to a dealt card that does not offer any value; stating the actual rank and suit would detract from a description of the hand. "The last card was a blank.".
- RUSH - A winning streak. Also "ON A RUSH".
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
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