Teen Hits Big Bucks with UltimateBet’s Bad Beat Jackpot

An Internet poker player who recently signed up for a free account at UltimateBet hoping to win big found out that losing a tough hand can really pay off. UltimateBet announced a few days ago that a 19-year-old Net player from Canada won a huge amount of $173,693.20 playing Texas Holdem at one of the Bad Beat Jackpot tables at UltimateBet.

The teen’s screen name is QUANTOM47 and he lost a hand, with a bad beat of epic proportions, when the 4 Queens he had was beat by a Royal Flush, which was had by the player RUSTY_1. This is exactly the reason why bad beat jackpots are in place these days at many casinos, as these kind of bad beats can make poker players go nuts.

At typical Texas Holdem tables a loss like this would make even the coolest poker professional heated. However, that is completely different at UltimateBet’s Bad Beat Jackpot tables. For his loss QUANTOM47 won $173,693.20 for losing and RUSTY_1 won $86,796.60 as the dealer of the bad beat hand. There were 373 other poker players that either were playing in the hand or were sitting at a Bad Beat Jackpot table and they all will share another $86,796.60.