Straight from the why-can't-this-ever-happen-to-me files, comes this story about the biggest bad beat jackpot in live poker history. Playing at Caesar's Atlantic City, a player named Steven Gedney won $276,979 in the casino's progressive bad beat jackpot. The total prize for all player's at the table was a record-setting $553,958.
In the fateful hand, Gedney flipped over quad 4 fours. His opponent, Chris Dobrzanski, rivered a fourth Ace to complete his own higher four of a kind. According to the rules at Caesar's poker room, any losing four of a kind hand automatically triggers the progressive prize.
For beating Gedney's hand, Dobrzankski took home $138,489 (plus whatever he won in the hand), while the other lucky players at the table each got $19,784 just for being in the right place at the right time.
While the jackpot was huge, and the biggest at a live game ever, it's not the largest in poker history. That honor goes to a bad beat in online play, which awarded a $1.2 million jackpot. You can watch a video of that hand here. And pay attention to the poor sucker Pokerbunny who sat out the hand and cost himself a whole lot of cake.
