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Largest Online Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Of $821,670.69 Was Hit By Absolute Poker Player.

Player KADI made online poker history by hitting $821,670.69 Bad Beat Jackpot at Absolute Poker today and winning a record-breaking $267,042.97 amount in cash. On Monday August 27 Absolute Poker room reported that their current Bad Beat Jackpot is quickly approaching $700,000 mark - by 9am ET the Bad Beat Jackpot of Texas Hold'em game had reached $667,000. With $0.50 collected from each qualifying poker hand at designated Bad Beat Jackpot tables of Absolute Poker, that number has been growing by an average of $2,000 per hour.

The larger-than-life jackpot eclipses Absolute Poker room's own record of $464,652.03 has been broken! The Absolute jackpot is nearly twice as big as Party Poker's (this online poker site not open to US players anymore).

To qualify for the Bad Beat progressive jackpot a player need to lose with a hand of at least 4 eights (8888) or better. Players have a chance to fill their Absolute Poker accounts with hundreds of thousands in cash by losing a Texas Hold 'em hand.

At the beginning of August Absolute poker announced that up to date $1,297,394.94 in jackpot money has been won since the popular online poker site launched its Bad Beat Jackpot on June 22, 2007. The biggest ever win at that time was just about $320,000 jackpot, the winner (with loosing hand) KALVINHOBBES took home personally $162,628.21 on July 11th, 2007. The rest of the prize money were distributed to other players at the BB table and new jackpot seed.

"In less than 7 weeks, our players have won an unfathomable amount of cash at our Bad Beat Jackpot tables," told David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker card room. "The numbers we released today amount to an average of $185,000 being paid out every week for losing hands."

Absolute Poker is the only online poker site open to U.S. players to feature Bad Beat Jackpot tables. Absolute Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot - turning the tables on bad beats! Take a seat now to be the next BIG winner. New players can claim 100% initial deposit bonus up to $500. Enter this code AP500. Existing players enjoy 25% reload bonus up to $150 and $200 for VIPs this Tuesday to Thursday! Use codes: 3x25 or 3x25VIP. The bonus codes are updated, so you can find the "fresh" ones when you log on to your Absolute Poker software.


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