A room filled with cash game players at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal split a $1,210,989 bad beat jackpot on Thursday. The jackpot hit at 5:20 p.m. ET when Shane Galle rivered a straight flush against the quad jacks of Elphege Delarosbil at a $1/2 no-limit hold'em table.
As the loser of the hand, Delarosbil scooped the biggest share of the jackpot ($460,149). Galle collected $230,088 as the winner of the hand, while the other seven players at the table each received $32,870. And that wasn't all — everyone seated at a table in the poker room when the jackpot hit was paid $1,224 as part of the promotion.