Party Poopers: No More Bad Beat Jackpots at PartyPoker

PartyPoker this past week abandoned its Bad Beat Jackpots, citing the desire to “ensure a healthier poker room, offering you better cash games and more players to play against”.

The last PartyPoker Bad Beat Jackpot hit this past Friday.  Party offered little, if any, notice regarding the removal.

A bad beat jackpot is a prize that is paid when a sufficiently strong hand is shown down and loses to an even stronger hand held by another player.

Some poker rooms, like Merge Gaming’s Carbon Poker, have heavily promoted their own Bad Beat Poker Jackpots over the past year with absolutely no sign of discontinuing the program.  The Merge Gaming jackpot has hit above a half million dollars in recent months.

In other news on the PartyPoker front, that site is once again fending off rival iPoker Network in an effort to hold onto its coveted number two position among most trafficked online poker sites in the world.  iPoker is now within a 50 player weekly average of Party with its peak 24 hour number frequently surpassing Party in recent days.  iPoker had briefly taken control of the number two spot last fall. 

- Ace King, Gambling911.com