A 60 year old Ferris, Texas woman is the latest person to capture the UB.com Bad Beat Jackpot, taking down a sizeable six-figure payday.
Early Tuesday evening, “KAPPIT” took to the felt of the $0.25/$0.50 UB.com Bad Beat Jackpot tables, not knowing that this would be a “good news, bad news” night for her. After making a seemingly unbeatable four of a kind in nines, “KAPPIT” continued on to attempt to take the hand down. It wasn’t until an opponent stuck with her to the river that the hand would take a seemingly unfortunate turn.
After tabling her four nines, “KAPPIT” was looked up by “CIBV,” who trumped her holding by tabling quad queens. On the UB.com tables at that level, the payout per hand averages between $4 and $11, but it was about to get much richer for all players involved.
At the time, the UB.com Bad Beat Jackpot was at $670,575.38, with several hundred people eligible to share in the bounty. For being defeated with her quad nines, “KAPPIT” was awarded a payday of $218,115.71 and – in addition to what was won for holding the quad queens – “CIBV” took down a healthy $109,057.85 for his winning hand. Seven players at the table were gifted with $1,000 for just being there and an additional 610 players received $89.36 for playing at the same stakes as “KAPPIT” and “CIBV.”
“I’ve been playing poker for 45 years now, mostly live poker, and I hit a jackpot once in a land-based casino,” “KAPPIT” said to UB.com after being awarded the Bad Beat Jackpot. “This is the biggest prize I’ve ever gotten, though. Hats off to UB Poker. It was ‘SO’ my lucky day to capture the Bad Beat Jackpot. It looks like our dream of trading off our 1995 truck will finally happen. Keep those jackpots coming UB… dreams do come true.”
UB.com, a part of the CEREUS Poker Network with sister site Absolute Poker, is one of the stalwarts in the online poker industry when it comes to offering such Bad Beat Jackpots. Since the program was launched on the network, thousands of players have shared in a total of $58,114,636.59 in jackpot money. The Bad Beat Jackpot can only be won by players on the specially designated tables, of which there are hundreds that stretch from the $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold’em level up to $5/$10.
This year alone, 63 players have won a Bad Beat Jackpot, with “KAPPIT’s” win shooting the grand total of this year’s Bad Beat Jackpot prize money to a massive total of $9,328,292.80. Along with the players who have won the main Jackpot, the CEREUS Poker Network has passed out other smaller Bad Beat Jackpot prizes to another 11,082 players.
Even though “KAPPIT’s” big payday occurred on Tuesday, the CEREUS Network Bad Beat Jackpot is on the move once again. Of the $670,575.38 that was hit on Tuesday, 25% was rolled over to start the next jackpot, meaning that $167,643.85 was in the pot. The CEREUS Bad Beat Jackpot currently is sitting at $237,355.84 as of early Thursday afternoon.
Poker News Daily would like to congratulate “KAPPIT,” “CIBV,” and the hundreds of players who were fortunate to take down their piece of the CEREUS Network Bad Beat Jackpot.
