The Lodge Card Club delivered a $289,376 jackpot to a group of fortunate players in a $1-$2-$5 pot-limit Omaha game on Tuesday. The hand saw two players flop straight flushes and both got all their chips in, leading to the largest bad beat jackpot awarded in Texas poker room history.
On a flop of 5
4 3, one player held A 2 K
6 for a five-high straight flush and another held 7 6 A
K for a seven-high straight flush.
“In 99.9% of the pot-limit Omaha games in the world, this would be the end of the (sad) story for the five-high straight flush,” the poker room noted on Twitter. “But thanks to the Lodge bad beat – a prize that started 190 days ago at $100,000 and increased by $1,000 per day – that player walked away with the biggest share of a $290,000 prize.”
High Fives And Fist Pumps
A video of the hand shows plenty of celebrating after players realized just how strong each player’s hand was and the nice payouts awaiting them. In addition to the table shares, The Lodge in Round Rock, which is co-owned by poker pro Doug Polk and poker vloggers Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme, also paid out a $200 room share to every cash game player at the Austin and San Antonio locations.
A bad beat jackpot is a promotion held at many poker rooms that collects a small amount from each cash game pot to seed the prize pool. The jackpot is triggered when a premium hand loses to an even better hand. At the Lodge, that equates to losing with quad 10s or better in no-limit hold’em while using two cards, and losing with a straight flush in PLO on the flop only.
The Lodge bad beat jackpot pays out 50% to the player with the losing hand, 25% to the winner, and the remaining to other cash game players in the rooms at the time. That meant the “losing” player with the five-high straight flush scored $144,688 and the winner grabbed $72,344.
Watch the reaction of the players below.
$290,000 BAD BEAT HITS @LodgePokerATX pic.twitter.com/3Ilo6azbIN
— Lodge Card Club (@LodgePokerClub) February 5, 2025
The Lodge came close to awarding a $115,000 bad beat jackpot in August. Two players both flopped straight flushes and appeared to be in line to cash in on the jackpot of almost $115,000. However, per the card room’s rules, a one-outer ace on the river gave one player a royal flush and nixed any bad beat payouts.
In September, quads over quads triggered a $1.6 million jackpot at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal. The property has become a hotspot for huge bad beat payouts including a record CAD $2.6 million jackpot in August 2023.
