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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. Luckily, a hand as low as quad 7s getting beat will trigger the jackpot on Bad Beat tables at Carbon Poker, so players there probably save quite a bit on computer repair costs.

Carbon Poker are making the most of this case of bad/good luck by offering some bonuses in celebration. A 10% bonus on deposits of up to $500 valid from 22 September to 28 September is the first promotion. The second is a $50 bonus plus a $109 coupon into Sunday’s $50,000 guaranteed tourney for players who make a deposit of at least $500 at once from 22 September to 27 September.

Hmmm. If I had to lose anywhere, I think Carbon Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot tables would be a pretty good place to do so. For losing, I’d get a big jackpot prize and would trigger promotions to make me popular with everyone else playing poker at Carbon? Come on, beat my four Aces, I beg you!

How would you react to a bad beat if it let you win a few hundred thou? Please comment below and tell us all about your worst bad beats.

-Shad