Aces full means a bad beat (and jackpot) at Dania
The Dania Jai-Alai Card Room gave away the Bad Beat Jackpot last week, a total of $52,652. Jason Carruth was the lucky loser of the hand and took home half of the Bad Beat, $26,326. The winner of the hand, Philip Liss, won not only the pot on the table, but an additional $13,163 Bad Beat bonus. The remaining players at the table split the remainder, also $13,163.
A bad beat jackpot is won when a player has a usually unbeatable hand, but is still beaten. Carruth finished the hand with a full house, three aces and two tens. He lost to Liss, who took the table pot with four tens. (Two in his hand and two on the flop-turn-river.)
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
