Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Besides the payoff schedule each casino
Besides the payoff schedule each casino or cardroom has rules on qualifying for the jackpot. In Texas Hold’em a common rule is “both cards in a hand must play” in order to qualify for a Bad Beat Jackpot. As an example, the board shows Three Aces and Two Kings and you hold pocket Kings. You have Four Kings and qualify for the Jackpot. Another player is holding an Ace and a Queen, he has Four Aces but his Queen does not play in the hand, therefore his hand does not qualify. No one wins the jackpot. Both cards in a player’s hand must play to qualify for the Bad Beat Jackpot.
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons My sad story started when I was playing in a structured $4/$8 Texas Hold’em ring game with 9 other players. The Bad Beat Jackpot was more than $38,000. In this rather tight structured $4/$8 ring game a large pot would be about $200. Much less than a players share of the Bad Beat Jackpot (each player’s share being over $1,000 per player with $19,000 going to the bad beat hand and $9,500 going to the winner of the hand).