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Want to know the bad beats? Man's site now tells you

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Itzhack Feldman admits his passion is an odd one.

"I live for the bad beat," says Feldman, of Hollywood.

And he has the web site to prove it: www.BadBeatNow.com.

A bad beat jackpot is when one player with a great hand loses to someone with an even better hand. In many cases, the loser has to have at least a full house of aces over jacks. Commonly, it's one player's four of a kind beats another's.

Casinos offer "bad beat jackpots" to draw people to the tables, and they often go over $100,000.

That's what catches Feldman's eye. He plays $1-$2 limit poker (the lowest-limit game, where you often win or lose only $20 a night) in hopes of hitting the bad beat.

His site, accessible via YouTube, contains the current bad beat jackpots of South Florida casinos. Feldman (pictured winning a Royal Flush, not a bad beat at Seminole Hollywood) calls the poker rooms daily, asking what the bad beat is.

Hey, I've heard of worse ways to make the world better.


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