Bad beat crosses $100,000 at PB Kennel Club
Look for more small pocket pairs and suited connectors being played: The Bad Beat has crossed the $100,000 mark again at the Palm Beach Kennel Club poker room.
It's at $107,324, according to the track's Jeff Prince. And it hasn't hit since April 22. PB Kennel had the state record earlier this year, blowing past $200,000 before it hit.
To win a bad beat, a really great hand has to outdo a great hand. (Often it's quads over quads.) When the bad beat jackpot rises, players tend to stay in more with hands that can make four of a kind or a straight flush, hoping to either be the winner or the loser of the big hand, poker room managers say.
Gulfstream and the Isle recently had their jackpots cross $100,000 as well. (I try to blog whenever it crosses $100,000.)
So, do you play more often or more hands if there's a bad beat out there? Or do you take advantage of suckers drawing to it, and eke out more of their cash?
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.
