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Carbon Poker has just paid out on its Bad Beat Jackpot. A player going by the handle of baseball127 lost his straight flush to the royal flush of another player. That bad beat won baseball127 an incredible $211,758.31 and the winner of the hand took $105,000 as well as the comparatively tiny pot of $128. The seven other players got $15,000 just for being there. The jackpot has now been reseeded to more than $125,000.

Baseball127 must be very happy, as could you get a bad beat worse than that? Straight flush meet royal flush… I’d be screaming at the monitor if that happened to me without a jackpot to ease the pain. Scratch that – I’d stave in the monitor with the keyboard.

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PartyBets continues to duck for the cover, as a torrent of money continues to flow in for Phil Ivey to take down the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event title. Ivey has now moved into outright favouritism to capture the title, dropping from $5 to $4.50 in the last week. The public money continues to love Ivey despite the fact that he enters the final table seventh in chips and Darvin Moon has a monster stack that many believe should be big enough to roll over his opponents. Moon continues to offer what is seemingly fantastic value, now out to $s mortensen5 for the win.   PartyPoker.com ambassador and World Poker Tour commentator Mike Sexton is baffled by the support for Ivey. Read full