When it comes to hitting bad beat jackpots, Quebec’s Playground Poker Club has become the place to be.
On Saturday, the venue once against delivered a massive payout to its players when players hit a CAD $2.2 million (or $1.6 million) jackpot. It was the second-largest bad beat jackpot in history.
In many live poker games, poker rooms will take a fixed amount out of each pot and put it into the bad beat jackpot prize pool. Online poker rooms rarely run this promotion.
The jackpot is triggered when a premium hand is beaten by an even better hand. The casino usually pays the “loser” of the hand largest share with the next-biggest payout going to the winner. Operators typically divides the remaining percentage between the other players at the table.
Straight Flush Loses To A Bigger Straight Flush
The hand came in a $1-$2 no-limit hold’em game and saw one player dealt a royal flush to beat another player’s straight flush. One player held [pc]8c9c[/pcn] while the other held [pc]AcKc[/pcn] on a flop of [pc]Qc10c7c[/pcn]. The turn brought the [pc]5h[/pcn] and the [pc]Jc[/pcn] fell on the river to bring about the jackpot.
💥 $2.2 MILLION BAD BEAT JACKPOT HIT! 💥
A Royal Flush beat a Queen-high Straight Flush at 1/2 NLHE — total payout: $2,205,509 😲
🔥 The BBJ is already back at $530,181 and growing.
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— Playground Poker (@PlaygroundPoker) July 12, 2025
Playground Poker Club gives 40% of the bad beat jackpot to the loser of the hand. In this instance, Playground gave the loser about CAD $882,200 ($665,000). The winner received 20% of the pool, or in this case about CAD $441,000 ($322,000).
Another 20% is then divided among the other seven players at the table for CAD $63,000 each ($46,000). Playground does something rare with the last 20%. They divide the remaining 20% to everyone else playing at other tables in the room.
The property requires quad deuces or better to lose to trigger the jackpot in no-limit hold’em games. Both hole cards must also play and the pot must be at least $20 with five players at the table.
Over the last few years, the Canadian poker club has been the home of several massive jackpots.
The property set the bad beat jackpot record in August 2023 for CAD $2.6 million. Then in October 2023, the property paid out CAD $1.3 million followed by another CAD $1.8 million in March. Last September, Playground saw a CAD $1.7 million payout triggered.
Photo courtesy of Playground Poker Club
