Jackpots hit at Dania
While I wrote about the cheap games today at Dania Jai-Alai, there's also news of their jackpots hitting:
On Tuesday afternoon, Andrew Sknur took home the Royal Flush jackpot in diamonds after an unnamed player hit a $3,000 royal flush. Then Wednesday, David Cruz of Fort Lauderdale became the third winner at Dania Jai-Alai in less than a week. Cruz’s spade Royal Flush hit Wednesday night in a no-limit Texas Hold’em game paying him $9,047 in cash, the highest Royal jackpot paid out so far at Dania Jai-Alai.
Card room personnel say rather than have one big "bad beat" jackpot, they'd rather spread it around. Hence the royal flushes. They also have high hand bonuses regularly.
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.
