In April 2018, a $1.375 million bad-beat jackpot was paid out at Montreal, Quebec’s Playground Poker Room. The big hit at Rivers Casino is also, in real terms, the largest ever paid live in North America. The $1.23 million jackpot cracked the former US casino record of $1,068,590.80, which was set in January 2018 at Detroit’s Motor City Casino. Five of the six remaining players were from Pittsburgh or elsewhere in western Pennsylvania, while the sixth was from Morgantown, West Virginia. Six other players at the table split another $368,029, or $61,338 each. The biggest share of the jackpot went to Huttonsville, West Virginia’s Benjamin Flanagan, who collected $490,708 when his flopped quad aces were bested on the river by Wexford, Pennsylvania’s Raymond Brodersen, who filled a royal flush.īrodersen collected $368,029 as the winner of the actual hand that produced the jackpot, in addition to whatever the actual pot was in the $1/$3 no-limit hold’em game, which Rivers Casino did not mention in its presser.
A new record for a bad-beat jackpot at a United States-based casino was set this week at Rivers Casino Pittsburgh, where eight lucky players divvied up a $1,226,765.80 payout.
