Player hits big bad beat jackpot at Americas Cardroom

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- It's every poker player's nightmare to lose a hand of Hold'em while holding bullets and flopping quad Aces. But for Poobah911 at Americas Cardroom (Doyles Room), it was a dream come true. On February 7th, the online poker player popped Americas Cardroom's Bad Beat Jackpot, which had skyrocketed to well over $500,000. Poohbah originally opened his online poker account at Americas Cardroom less than a week ago.

"The latest Bad Beat Jackpot win will go down in Americas Cardroom as legendary," stated Michael Harris. "Not only did a brand new player pop our $500k Bad Beat Jackpot, but sharing in the prize pool is one of our frequent Bad Beat Jackpot winners, proving that anyone can win this game."

It happened at a 6-max table in a faceoff against online poker player toptrainer, who won the hand with a straight flush. Poohbah takes home $175,232,10, and the winner of the hand, toptrainer, left the table with a healthy $116,809.70.

It's all part of the ongoing Bad Beat Jackpot game at Americas Cardroom. The US-friendly online poker site is softening the blow of losing at the poker tables by paying poker players big money when misfortune strikes.

But it's not just the recipient of the bad beat who walks away a winner when the jackpot hits. The winner of any Bad Beat Jackpot losing hand stands to win 20% of the jackpot, and those who participated in the dealt hand will share 10% of the jackpot (30% of every jackpot goes to reseed the next big one).

Sharing in the 10% was Word Son, who earned $14,605.59 for participating in the hand. Word Son is a 3-time Bad Beat Jackpot winner, having won $37,224.24 in December, and another $8,089.57 the same month.

More info on Americas Cardroom's Bad Beat Jackpot game can be found at AmericasCardroom.eu.