How does the cash game bad beat fund work?

Mr. Flibble · 01-11-2004 2:47pm #1

Would anyone mind explaining how the bad beat prize thing for the cash games works?

DapperGent · 01-11-2004 2:56pm

When they rake cash game hands most goes to the house and a bit of it goes into the bad best fund. It builds up over time and is awarded when a monstrously good hand is beaten by an even better one.

Quads better by better quads. Quads beaten by straight flush. I think a really good house counts too. Maybe Aces full beaten by quads or summat.

Most of the fund is awarded to the player who had the slightly worse hand, a good chunk of it goes to the winner of the hand and the rest is spread among the people playing at the table.

Evil_Bilbo · 01-11-2004 3:20pm

Presumably you have to be playing a cash game to win this bad beat money? I'd doubt they'd pay out money to some fellas at a freeroll table nomatter how bad the beat was.

???

DapperGent · 01-11-2004 3:22pm

Yeah only in cash games that are raked for the bad beat.

Davey Devil · 01-11-2004 3:27pm

In Hold'em it's Aces Full in Omaha it's quads beaten. The player who loses the pot gets 50% of the bad beat, the player who wins the hand get 30/35% and the remaining players at the table split the rest.

bohsman · 01-11-2004 3:33pm

Omaha its quads, holdem its a lot more complicated its a house of aces full of jacks but you must use two cards from your hand and if the board is AAA and youve got QQ and the other person KK its not a bad beat.

Its 50% to the losing hand 25% plus the pot to the winning hand and the rest is split among anyone dealt into the hand

Davey Devil · 01-11-2004 3:35pm

Good lad Oscar, your the pro. Have you ever been at the table when it's been won?

bohsman · 01-11-2004 3:43pm

No it was won on the feeder game about a month ago 20 minutes after id been moved to the main game and someone who had been in the main game had come back into the feeder game, i think thats part of the reason you now have to wait an hour after leaving the main game to get into the feeder

Mr. Flibble · 01-11-2004 4:15pm

Do you always have to use your two hole cards in holdem, say if 7d 8d 9d td was on the board and people had 6d and jd? Or say you had 5d 6d and someone else had jd qd, you'd have a str8flush with your two cards but you wouldn't be using them after the river if the td card was the river.

And is the fund the same for the 250 omaha game as for the smaller game even tough they're playing for larger money?

bohsman · 01-11-2004 5:01pm

Its the same fund as the 100 game, there is no 250 game most people sit in with a few grand so it soesnt make a difference

In omaha it would be a bad beat because you are using both your cards so i pressume you would be allowed to use your two to give you the low straight flush, if theres AAA on the board and youve got AK its not going to be a bad beat if the other person has quads, think that goes for holdem and omaha

How does the cash game bad beat fund work?

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