As of November 25, 2007, the bad beat jackpot at Absolute Poker reached $100,000. This was less than 24 hours after an Absolute Poker player won a bad beat jackpot worth $300,000. Neelix40 won $308,379 when he lost a hand while holding a four of a kind with nines.

Oatsforxmas was holding four aces. He also won $50,111 for beating Neelix40's hand. The other four players at the table won $12.527 just for being at the table. Bad beat jackpot players at Absolute Poker contribute $0.50 per qualifying hand to fund the bad beat jackpot, which is a progressive jackpot available to anyone playing at the bad beat jackpot tables.

The rules for winning a bad beat jackpot vary from cardroom to cardroom, but at Absolute Poker, any time a Texas holdem player at a bad beat jackpot table loses when holding four of a kind with eights or better, they win the bad beat jackpot. And part of the money from each bad beat jackpot goes to the other people at that table.

The publicity for the bad beat jackpots at Absolute Poker must be a welcome sight for the online cardroom, which has been under fire recently for cheating allegations. But the cheating allegations were related to high stakes tournament play, not bad beat jackpot tables. So a player interested in bad beat jackpot poker could find a worse poker site at which to play than Absolute Poker.

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