He was dealt pocket aces, and two more aces hit the board as community cards, including the ace of spades. The player with the “losing” hand of aces, Benjamin Flanagan of Huttonsville, West Virginia, won $490,708. Pocket aces lost the hand but won bigĪ press release from the casino, which is owned by Rush Street Gaming, stated that the bad beat hit at about 4:15 p.m. The growth of the jackpot in Pittsburgh had attracted considerable interest in the poker community and drawn players to the 30-table poker room from well beyond western Pennsylvania in recent months, despite the long odds involved in being part of a bad beat table. The amount awarded at various casinos thus varies greatly but almost never reaches $1 million. Many poker rooms in Pennsylvania and elsewhere offer bad beat promotions to help build interest, but each uses its own criteria for the necessary hands. Rivers Casino Pittsburgh August 25, 2022 Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler /qzu89GnH2p 🤑 THE $1,226,765.80 RECORD-BREAKING BAD BEAT JUST HIT! 🤑 #RiversCasinoPittsburgh #BadBeat The $1,226,765.80 split among eight players was considerably higher than the last time the Rivers bad beat hit, for $149,417 on April 14, 2021. The poker room’s jackpot had been building daily for more than 16 months due to an unusually high requirement that the bad beat could be triggered only if two hands at the table consisted of four 10s or better. The player with four aces won nearly $500,000 while seven others in a cash game at the $1-$3 Texas hold ’em table shared the rest. All it took was a poker player with a royal flush beating another with quad aces Thursday for Rivers Casino Pittsburgh to award a $1.2 million “bad beat” jackpot that is the largest ever won in a U.S.
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