November 4
In Arizona, at the Pima-Maricopa
Indian reservation, a record breaking poker pot was won.
Online poker players are astounded at how easy it was to
win, too.
Online poker players are
learning that the $250,000 October 31 jackpot was won on
a low hand as well. Poker player Tim Armstrong, won the
biggest bad beat poker jackpot in Arizona
history at Casino Arizona at Talking Stick.
Armstrong walked away with an
extra Halloween treat if you will. He won it playing the
casino's Stud and Holdem Super Bad Beat tourney. The
other 8 poker players at the table shared the remaining
$256,000, making this $506,000 jackpot the largest poker
jackpot during a promotion ever awarded in Arizona, and
possibly the largest in the world paid by a Native
American casino.
A regular poker player at Casino
Arizona Armstrong, 45, moved from California two years
ago when he was laid off from a hi-tech job. With a $100
buy-in and strategic play, he won the jackpot; actually
he lost the hand, which meant that he would walk home
with the top award of $250,000. The woman with the
better hand walked away with $125,000, while the
remaining seven players shared the rest of the jackpot.
Both players had a straight
flush. The better hand was a royal flush in diamonds.
Armstrong, the winner of the jackpot, held the eight and
nine of diamonds.
