Caesars Entertainment Mega Beat Progressive Poker Jackpot hits first time

LAS VEGAS -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Just before 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, players in poker rooms across Las Vegas celebrated as Scott Rosen beat Alex Adams’s Quad Queens with a Queen Hight Straight Flush of hearts inside the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino poker room. With that hand, Rosen had hit Caesars Entertainment Inc.’s Mega Beat Progressive Poker Jackpot. The Mega Beat Progressive Poker Jackpot awards not only the losing hand and winning hand but all players actively playing in any of the participating Caesars Entertainment poker rooms. Adams’s great hand being beat by Rosen’s even better hand entitled all 218 players in Harrah’s Las Vegas, The Quad Resort & Casino, Flamingo Las Vegas, Bally’s Las Vegas, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Caesars Palace and Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino poker rooms to split $672,420.25. Adams, having the losing hand, won $136,675 and winner Rosen took home $69,401 while all other players received $2,159 each.

Caesars Entertainment announced the introduction of the Mega Beat Progressive Poker Jackpot to the Las Vegas poker market at the beginning of 2013. With a progressive model the jackpot has the potential to climb to more than $1 million. The Mega Progressive Beat Poker Jackpot has the potential to be one of the the largest promotional poker jackpots in the casino entertainment industry. This multi-casino promotion offers poker players of all skill levels the opportunity to play for a chance at life-changing money.