BEATING THE BAD BEAT

29 June 2007

Absolute Poker has a quad 2 plan to turn misfortune around

The online poker site Absolute Poker.com has introduced a new Bad Beat Jackpot that allows player suffering from bad beat blues to turn their situation around, adding a new spin to its Texas Hold'em poker games.

"We're taking away the pain delivered by bad beats by throwing money at the victims," stated David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker.

In poker, the term 'bad beat' refers to losing a hand that is clearly favoured to win. But at the Bad Beat Jackpot tables, losing a seemingly unbeatable hand is not necessarily the end of the world. Now, when seated at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, if a player loses a hand holding four twos (2222) or anything better, they'll win a piece of the Bad Beat Jackpot.

To kick off the new online poker game, Absolute Poker is putting $100 000 into the jackpot. To help it build, $0.50 will be collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables. The jackpot will keep growing until someone hits a qualifying bad beat, at which time a large percentage of it will be distributed among the bad beat victim and the players at the online poker table where the bad beat occurred (a small fraction of the jackpot will remain in the pot and another unspecified percentage of it will be dedicated to administration costs).

Bad Beat Jackpot tables will be noted with the word "jackpot" written in brackets after the table name and will be categorized in red text.

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