Next time you get a bad beat at Americas Cardroom you can still walk away from the table a winner, with the site’s Bad Beat Jackpot. At Americas Cardroom a Bad Beat is when you lose with a hand of four 8s or better. In order to qualify as a Bad Beat, both of the player’s hole cards must be part of the bad beat hand.
When the Bad Beat Jackpot is hit, Americas Cardroom awards 30% of the jackpot to the player with the Bad Beat hand, 20% to the hand’s winner, 10% split among the rest of the players in the hand, 10% to the house, and 30% to reseed the next Bad Beat Jackpot.
In order to be eligible to receive a share of the Bad Beat Jackpot should it be hit at a table where you’re sitting is to have played in at least one hand at that table where you made a contribution to the Bad Beat Jackpot. Contributions are made through a Jackpot fee taken from every Jackpot table with at least 4 players dealt in, the amount of the fee dependent on the stakes of the hand. The jackpot fee for stakes of $0.05/$0.10 is $0.10 per hand. The jackpot fee for stakes of $0.10/$0.25 to $1/$2 is $0.08 per hand. And the jackpot fee for stakes of $2/$4 and higher is $0.33 per hand.
The Bad Beat Jackpot is only awarded in its entirety when it is hit at tables with stakes of $2/$4 and higher. When it is hit at tables with stakes of $0.10/$0.25 to $1/$2, only 50% of the jackpot is awarded, and when it is hit at tables with stakes of $0.05/$0.10 only 20% of the jackpot is awarded.