Bad Beat - Sometimes when you lose you win!

Imagine this scenario just for a moment. Youā€™re sitting in the blinds on a $0.50/$1.00 table and get dealt a below average hand. The button raises and you fold. Thatā€™s the end of the hand for you, youā€™ve lost your blind, but no big deal. Thereā€™s always next time. Your attention is taken away from the table for a few seconds, then you come back, only to find that your balance has increased. Not by the odd $ or 2, but by a staggering $18,940.56 ā€“ the equivalent of Ā£11,415.

Surely a mistake, you think. That canā€™t be right, folding and still winning that amount. However, for 2 lucky Laddies players, this really happened when the Bad Beat jackpot hit after they folded pre flop.

ā€˜Team-Riversā€™ and ā€˜kenn213ā€™ were the 2 lucky Laddies players involved after an 8 high straight flush was beaten by one J high. The winning hand earned an extra $75,000 for the player whilst the losing hand got a staggering $151,000 extra for one lucky player.

Although the jackpot has hit, it has been reset and is currently standing at over $86,000 already.

For your chance to win the Bad Beat Jackpot, simply join a Bad Beat Table from the Cash Games Lobby and lose with 4 of a kind 8ā€™s or better. Don't forget - everyone dealt into the jackpot hand wins a payout ā€“ as both ā€˜Team-Riversā€™ and ā€˜kenn213ā€™ can testify. Join the action now!

For full details of this promotion, click here.

Previous Ladbrokes Poker Bad Beat Winners (June 2009)

A Ladbrokes Poker player was celebrating an improbable Bad Beat that brought a $95,833.17 windfall his way. ā€˜Brockbiersā€™ from Finland stood to win $95 if his Quad Jacks held up on a $0.50/Ā£1.00, ten seater Bad Beat table. However, his hand was beaten by a Straight flush and the Bad Beat Jackpot was activated. His loss quickly turned into a massive win, which increased his cash payout by over 1000%. Other players dealt into the hand were all awarded nearly $6,000.

'Brockbiers', who was still reeling from the result hours later, just couldn't believe his luck, he's only been playing online with Ladbrokes Poker since January, so the win is a great kick-start to his bankroll ā€“ which has also benefitted from two boosts for ranking in the top 3500 players on the monthly Ladbrokes Poker Million Dollar Rake Race which began again on the 1st June!

This is the second time in just a few months that Ladbrokes Poker players have benefited from the Bad Beat Jackpot. In March two players, one of which had Quad Queens and the other Quad Aces, were awarded $81,000 and $40,000 respectively for what in other circumstances would have been a terrible Bad Beat story with the WSOP just around the corner, (Ladbrokes Poker is running the last of the Freerolls on Monday 8th June and the weekly finals on Wednesday 10th), the team are hopeful that the players have got all of their Bad Beats out of the way!

Kate McLennan Head of Ladbrokes Poker commented: ā€œI guess this is one Bad Beat story that people won't mind listening to. It is quite difficult to activate the Bad Beat Jackpot. The losing hand must contain four of a kind, four or more players must be dealt into the hand, the hand must go to a showdown and the best hand of the winner and the loser must include both hole cards. So for our players to win the BB jackpot on more than one occasion in less than three months is quite a feat. Our players are seemingly getting a disproportionate amount of Bad Beats, but luckily itā€™s on the right tables!ā€

For your chance to win the Bad Beat Jackpot, which has already risen to over $57,000, play on the Bad Beat Tables from the Cash Games Lobby and lose with 4 of a kind 8ā€™s or better. For full details of this promotion, click here.

Bad Beat Jackpot winners (April 2009)

A hand worth just over $100 turned into a $81,222.17 payday for one lucky Ladbrokes Player recently ā€“ and he even lost the hand! 3 other Ladbrokes Poker players also won a share of the Bad Beat Jackpot which paid out a total of over $228,000. ā€˜Tjv1964ā€™ had pocket Queens against ā€˜carrotkidā€™s pocket Aces. With both a Queen and an Ace on the flop, both must have thought they were ahead. Another Queen on the turn gave ā€˜Tjv1964ā€™ 4 of a kind Queens, but when the final Ace hit on the river and gave ā€˜carrotkidā€™ 4 of a kind Aces, the Bad Beat jackpot was triggered. ā€˜carrotkidā€™s winning hand gave him an extra $40,611.08, and 2 other Laddies players on the table, ā€˜zulā€™ and ā€˜k-tre-42ā€™ each won a share worth $5,801.58.

For your chance to win the Bad Beat Jackpot, which has already risen to over $52,000, play on the Bad Beat Tables from the Cash Games Lobby and lose with 4 of a kind 8ā€™s or better. For full details of this promotion, click here.

Remember, like ā€˜Tjv1964ā€™, winner of the Bad beat Jackpot and $81,222.17, you have to be in it to win it so get to the tables now and start playing.