Are you sick of bad beat stories? Along with the rest of the world, of course. Party Poker, however, has one bad beat story that even the most jaded poker player would want to hear. Particularly, since it involved the biggest bad beat jackpot in history.

Judith75 was playing in a $0.50/$1 Limit table. Yes, those tables where a $20 pot is considered monstrous. Anyway, Judith 75 found herself with two black nines and joined the flop with Shoulderguy (who had two red Kings) and Hiyall who had Ac-Qc. The flop hit Kc-9h-10c. Shoulderguy and Judith75 now had sets while Hiyall had a straight, a nut flush draw and a royal flush draw.

They say anything can happen in poker. And true enough, ANYTHING just happened.

The turn card brought a Jack of clubs giving Hiyall his royal flush. The river card was a nine of diamonds giving Judith75 quads. Shoulderguy had a King full house but who cares at this point, right? Naturally, the three players started betting like crazy and when the dust settled, the pot stood at a paltry $24 and everyone in the table got richer by thousands of dollars.

When the table was informed that they won the site’s bad beat jackpot (Party Poker’s bad beat jackpot rules states that four eights or higher needed to be beat by a straight flush), the celebrations started. Judith75 lost a $25 pot but she ended up with $354,000, a third of the record $1,013,381.63 pot. Hiyall got a sixth of the prize ($177,000) to add to his memorable $24 pot; and everyone else in the table got a little over $22,000 each.

Well, one thing is for sure, this is one bad beat Judith75 is not going to complain about.

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