These rules, of course, vary depending on the card room. In most cases, the winning and losing players in the hand must play both hole cards to qualify. Rules for triggering the jackpot differ from casino to casino, but the standard is aces full of jacks losing to quads or better. It all depends on the card room, and the pots range anywhere from $5,000 to what was witnessed at Rivers Casino earlier this week. Most bad beat jackpots don't come close to reaching seven figures before hitting. This past June, at the very same casino, a record-setting $2.2 million jackpot hit, with the winner, who lost with quad 10's, received approximately $845,000. Delarosbil was paid $460,149, while Galle took home $230,088. In August 2017, across the border in Canada, a $1,210,989 bad beat jackpot at hit Playground Poker Club when Shane Galle rivered a straight flush against the quad jacks of Elphege Delarosbil at a $1/2 no-limit hold'em table. The total jackpot pool was at $1,068,590, more than $200,000 less than was paid out at Rivers Casino this week. In 2018, a player won $427,452 at Motor City Casino in Detroit when his quad threes lost to quad kings.
The $1.22 million awarded at Rivers was far and away the largest in United States live poker history. Biggest But Not the Only Massive Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Poker bad beat jackpot at Motor City Casino in Detroit, MI (2018).
