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IPN Bad Beat Jackpot breaks world record

22 June 2011


(PRESS RELEASE) -- Since Saturday’s announcement of the Bad Beat Jackpot breaking the World Record, it has continued to grow and is now nearly $ 1.3 million -smashing all world records and making it possibly the luckiest Monday of a poker player’s life if it hits.

It’s not just the jackpot that is at record levels - being unlucky could prove to be the best decision a player makes. Win big on the Bad Beat Jackpot tables when a player loses with a hand of Four of a Kind Tens, or better and take homes over €301,000! Suddenly Mondays don’t seem so bad.

The IPN, operated by GTECH G2, is Europe’s largest independent poker network. It has more than 4,000,000 players and has dealt more than two billion hands. It includes such popular poker sites as Virgin Poker, Yahoo Poker, Poker Heaven, Mermaid Poker and the Sportingbet.com poker room Paradise Poker.