Rivers Poker Room's Record-Setting $1.2M Bad Beat Jackpot Triggered

poker bad beat jackpotBenjamin Flanagan of West Virginia lost a hand with quad aces to a royal flush in a $1/$3 no-limit hold'em game at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, but walked away a six-figure winner thanks to the poker room's $1.2 million bad beat jackpot.

Flanagan flopped quads on a board and had a hand that he couldn't possibly lose money on no matter what at that point. Even though Raymond Broderson, a local player, had a one-outer with and wasn't drawing dead, there was no way Flanagan could possibly go broke.

The turn was a meaningless , but the on the river created the largest bad beat jackpot in US live poker history. Everyone at the table was ecstatic with the outcome of the hand…