More info on poker II – more on bad beats
It is evident that in a poker game, a bad beat is an immense piece of bad luck and can hit a player, all set to win but losing out in the end, very badly. Many professional players are known not to take bad beats calmly and react to the unexpected loss strongly. However, there are veteran poker players who take bad beats on their stride and acknowledge the reversal only as an exception and not as a blow to their tactical play which works most of the time. In online poker games, players who suffer bad beats are more ungracious to accept the loss than in offline games and accusation of rigging of the random number generator is heard. This has led to online casinos offering online poker games to publish data to prove the genuine randomness of the number generator.
Some poker games offer a consolation prize for the player facing bad beat and reward his strong hand which eventually got beaten. This dough is the bad beat jackpot and is not common in all poker games. Anyone wanting to cash in bad beat jackpot must apply to the rules that state how strong the losing hand of the player must be to be applicable for the dough. A case in point is a game of Texas hold ‘em that may set the rule that if both the winning and losing hand played all their hole cards and the bad beat had a hand of four of a kind or better, then he qualifies for the bad beat jackpot. While rules, percentage of payout and amount of jackpot varies from one casino house to another, usually a rake, separate from the standard rake, is collected from the pot to constitute the bad beat jackpot which is shared among all players at the table during a bad beat with the losing hand receiving the biggest portion.
