Bad Beat Jackpot
The Bad Beat Poker Jackpot at Classic Poker makes a losing hand the biggest winning hand you will ever play. Recent players who won our Bad Beat Jackpots were rewarded between €150.000 and €210.000 when they had their quad jacks and quad eights beaten. The losing hand will receive 35% of the jackpot amount which at all times can be seen on the tables or in the poker lobby in the upper left corner. The winning hand gets 17.5% of the jackpot and the remaining players at the table where the jackpot is won and who has been dealt cards in the Bad Beat Jackpot hand share a total of 17.5% of the jackpot amount amongst them.
Both players in the qualifying jackpot hand must use both hole cards to qualify for the jackpot and quads sixes has to be beaten before the jackpot is paid out. Furthermore a minimum of 4 players have to receive cards in a hand to make the hand a valid jackpot hand plus rake has to be taken from the hand to make it a qualifying hand. Every raked hand on our jackpot tables will be charged an additional 50 cents that in full are added to the progressive Bad Beat Jackpot amount.
Please read the bad beat jackpot terms and conditions below before joining a table.
Jackpot contribution will be displayed on the table.
The jackpot contribution will only be collected if the hand is dealt on a jackpot table to four or more players and a rake is collected from the hand.
The jackpot contribution is collected from the pot as soon as the first rake is collected in the hand.
The jackpot contribution of 50 cents is collected only once during the hand.
The bad beat jackpot is only available on specific tables only.
Four or more players must be dealt into the hand before it is deemed a qualifying hand.
Players sitting out do not qualify for the jackpot.
The hand must go to a showdown and rake taken for the hand to be a qualifying hand.
The losing hand must contain four of a kind sixes or better to qualify
The best hand for both the winner and the loser must include their two hole cards. In the case of four of a kind, both the hole cards must be a pocket pair and if the
hand is a straight or royal flush both hole cards has to be part of the hand to qualify.
The two highest hands will be considered for the jackpot if there are two or more hands that qualify for the jackpot, with the highest hand being the winning hand (the winner) and the second highest hand winning the jackpot (the loser of the hand)
If there are two claims then the hand that started first according to the server clock (GMT) will be the Jackpot winner.
Coffee-housing, revealing cards or any discussion of the hands in play will disqualify the hand from any Jackpot payments.
Distribution of the Jackpot pool will be shared as follows:
Bad Beat Jackpot: 70%
Seed New Jackpot: 20%
Administration Fee: 10%
Jackpot Payout Bad Beat Jackpot will be shared as follows:
Losing Hand: 50% of the 70%= 35% of the jackpot amount.
Winning Hand: 25% of the 70%=17.5% of the jackpot amount.
All other players dealt cards on that table split: 25% of the 70%=17.5% of the jackpot amount.
If players have any questions regarding our poker Bad Beat Jackpot promotion please contact support.
