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Bad beats are a part of poker. Just because you hold one of the strongest hands in poker is no guarantee you'll win by the end of the hand. In poker, even the most unlikely things will happen, and that means, once in awhile, you may be left staring at the table wondering how your flopped quad aces ended up as the losing hand.

Enter the Bad Beat Jackpot (BBJ) as a way to smooth out those brutal moments when your opponent rolls over ace-king of spades to your eight-nine of spades on the ten-jack-queen spade flop. The bad beat action recently in Quebec has been more extreme than usual, as two record-setting jackpots were hit in the month of April.

The first happened at Casino de Montréal on April 19, and the total jackpot of $1,669,442 set a new record for brick-and-mortar casinos in North America. The hand in question was as brutal as the jackpot was large.

Some poker players complain that too much money gets taken out of pots to be diverted into a poker room's bad beat jackpot promotional fund. With that said, overall the existence of bad beat jackpots is very much a good thing. Here are three reasons why you should embrace the idea of bad beat jackpots. In this scenario there is a poker room with a bad beat jackpot, and only one table. Casinos take $1 from every pot to go toward the bad beat jackpot (this is on top of any rake). This translates into a couple of things. If your table is dealt exactly 42,391 hands, your table will have collectively paid a total of $42,391 to the bad beat jackpot.

Guymet St-Lot was in the hand with pocket tens, and he flopped the world when the flop came . His opponent, Guillaume Leduc-Frenette, was in the hand with , looking at a gutshot to the straight flush. The turn was a shot in the gut to St-Lot, crushing his quads and handing the pot to Leduc-Frenette.

That was plenty to qualify for the BBJ and it was a big one at $1,669,442. As the person most directly affected by the horrendously unlikely hand, St-Lot won half the pot for $834,711. Since poker is an inherently cruel game, a quarter of the BBJ always goes to the winner of the hand. In this case, $417,356 went to Leduc-Frenette, while the rest of the record prize was divided among the other players at the table at the time. Seven other players each won $59,622 from the jackpot.

Then, just a few miles away, and just a few days later, it happened again. Across the Mercier Bridge, in the early morning hours of April 27, another incredible hand unfolded at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake when their BBJ was at the highest they'd ever seen it. Kwane R opened the pot with a pair of queens, and got five callers, including Daniel F in the small blind.

Kwane flopped a set on the board, and after the blinds checked to him, he shoved for around $100. Action folded to Daniel in small blind, but he made the call with . When the hit the turn, giving Kwane quads, the only card that could save Daniel was the . That card dutifully came on the river, giving him the royal flush.

Kwane's consolation for losing the ~$300 pot was a share in the $1,375,000 BBJ, coming to $522,622. Daniel's one-outter netted him $261,311, plus the ~$300 pot, of course. All their table mates received $37,328, and every single poker player seated at a table in the poker room at the time pocketed $5,938 each.

Bad beats can be a devastating part of poker. In Quebec, at least for a few players in April, it translated into showers of extra money. It always hurts when your flopped quads lose the hand, but it hurt quite a bit less for these players in Quebec last month.

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Four live poker rooms are now open in Pennsylvania. The rooms where you can find live poker right now are:

The Meadows
Mount Airy Casino
Mohegan Sun Pocono
Rivers Casino Pittsburgh

These five live poker rooms are currently closed:

Parx (opening Dec. 15)
Hollywood Casino
Presque Isle Downs
Wind Creek Casino
Rivers Casino Philadelphia (reopened but closed again on Nov. 20)

In the New Year, players will also have another live poker option in Philadelphia. Live! Casino and Hotel in Philly will open in early 2021, and a 29-table poker room should open with it, pending COVID-19 restrictions.

We will continue to update casino and poker room closings and reopening plans in this second wave at our live updates page here.

Parx poker room reopening in mid-December

Pennsylvania’s largest poker room announced a date for its long-awaited return. Parx Poker Room will reopen on Dec. 15 at 9.m. with all of its usual games and be open 24 hours. The news came via Parx’s website.

What’s up at Wind Creek’s poker room?

With 26 tables, Wind Creek Casino has one of the larger poker rooms in PA. A representative from Wind Creek told PlayPennsylvania they had no update on when the poker room would open.

A Wind Creek employee provided an update on some of the happenings at Wind Creek including the poker room. Read the full story here.

PA poker rooms opening one by one

Other poker rooms in Pennsylvania could be reopening any day. According to a spokesperson for the PGCB, casinos submit plans and safety protocols for review. Once they receive final approval from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB), they can reopen.

It’s positive news for poker players who have been waiting a long time to get back to live games. Casinos in Pennsylvania started shutting down to slow the spread of coronavirus in mid-March. They did not begin to welcome back guests until June, and poker rooms were not open due to the social nature of the game.

PlayPennsylvania has contacted poker room reps for Hollywood Casino, Wind Creek Casino, and Presque Isle Downs Casino but they had no concrete plans to share.

We will continue to update you here as more rooms open or set a date for reopening.

Live Poker returned to Rivers Philadelphia but closed again

Rivers Casino Philadelphia reopened its poker room on Oct. 23. It did so with approval for up to 14 tables with a capacity of 100 guests. Under normal circumstances, the room has 28 tables and offers a variety of poker games but now the action returned with primarily No Limit Texas Hold’em cash games.

According to a recent press release, in addition to the existing casino-wide safety measures, the following precautions are in effect for the poker room (when it is open):

Masks must be worn at all times
Poker dealers will wear both a mask and a face shield
Each poker table in play will have plexiglass dividers, separating players and the dealer
A maximum of seven players allowed per table
Frequent and thorough cleaning of all cards, chips and surfaces
Only sanitized chips bought from the poker room cage will be used in play
No food, beverage or smoking is permitted in the poker room or anywhere on the Rivers Casino gaming floor

Peter Longi, assistant general manager at Rivers Casino Philadelphia, commented:

“Poker players are excited to be back at the tables, enjoying the game they love. Our reopening was carefully planned with the safety of our team and guests being the primary concern. We’re eager to welcome back our poker team.”

To assist with social distancing, players are encouraged to call the poker room at 215-717-3883 to put their name on the waiting list when the room reopens. Guests can also check the Bravo Poker Live online or the website’s mobile app for the Rivers Casino poker room up-to-the-minute game status. In addition, players will have a chance to win their share of the $100,000 Bad Beat Jackpot. The minimum qualifying hand is quad 2s.

Rivers had to close its poker room once again along with the rest of the casino until at least Jan. 1, 2021.

Here’s a look at a poker table at Rivers Philadelphia:

Players pine for poker

When the PGCB released its casino reopening protocols in late May, part of them stated that poker rooms were not authorized to operate due to players’ handling of cards and chips. They also said poker room operations would be re-examined based on changes in the CDC’s and PA Department of Health’s guidance.

On June 9, Rivers Casino Pittsburgh was the first to welcome back visitors. When asked when poker rooms would return, PGCB Director of Communication Doug Harbach said poker rooms present a different type of challenge since people are sitting close together in a room. He said at the time:

“The casinos want to walk before they run and make sure they are getting the venue open and then move on to opening up other areas once they know the protocols are working well.”

PokerStars, the state’s lone online poker site, has posted healthy numbers in PA, but players are still pining for in-person play.

Harbach gave this update to PlayPennsylvania in late August about poker rooms in Pennsylvania:

“There has been no alteration to the casino reopening protocols released by the Gaming Control Board in May in which poker rooms were not authorized to operate. At the same time, this guideline can be reexamined based on health experts’ guidance. Should casinos wish to explore reopening a casino room, it would need to provide plans to do so safely, which would be reviewed by the board on a case-by-case basis.”

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Poker is back in New Jersey, too

New Jersey also had a long poker pause. The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa reopened its poker room, the largest in the state, on Oct. 21. The room is operating with 30 socially distanced tables. It’s about a third of the room’s 85 tables when operating at full capacity.

The Bellagio in Las Vegas opened its poker room in June. Nevada state guidelines mandated five-handed play in rooms without dividers or plexiglass partitions. However, the Bellagio’s request for six-handed poker games with partitions was approved by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

Other poker rooms in Nevada have also reopened with virus protocols in place.

When will poker rooms in Pennsylvania reopen?

Play Pennsylvania will continue to provide updates here as more casinos announce plans and reopen live poker.

Hollywood Casino live poker update

Currently closed.

Information about Hollywood Casino Poker Room:

17 tables
Monday nights, $200 high hand, every 30 minutes; Wednesdays and Thursdays, $200 high hand, every 30 minutes; Fridays, $500 high hand, every 30 minutes; Sundays, hourly high hand prizes.
Bad Beat Jackpot
Weekly Rack Back Bonus

The Meadows live poker update

The Meadows poker room opened on Oct. 23 with daily hours of 11 a.m. – 1 a.m.

Welcome back Poker Players! pic.twitter.com/9X66QuZqXp

— Meadows Casino (@MeadowsCasino) October 23, 2020

Information about The Meadows Poker Room:

14 tables
Live games such as Texas hold’em and Omaha every day
Progressive bad beat

Mount Airy Casino live poker update

Mount Airy’s poker room reopened on Oct. 16 and is open 24 hours.

Information about Mount Airy Casino Poker Room:

12 tables
Games such as Texas hold’em, Omaha and stud

Mohegan Sun Pocono live poker update

Mohegan Sun Pocono’s poker room reopened on Oct. 16.

Information about Mohegan Sun Pocono Poker Room:

Eight tables
Daily tournaments feature no-limit Texas hold’em and Bounty tournaments
Offering a Bad Beat Jackpot for BOTH cash and tournament play
Each day, $25 added to the Royal Flush Jackpot for each of the four suites

Parx live poker update

Parx sent out an email in mid-November saying they were finalizing plans but hoped to re-open poker “before the end of December.”

Information about the Parx Casino Poker Room:

80 tables — the most in PA
The room offers a variety of no-limit hold’em games (from $1-$2 up to $10-$25), limit hold’em ($3-6 up to $30-$60), pot-limit Omaha, Omaha eight or better and a variety of mixed and draw games
Weekly tournaments. Major tournament: Parx Big Stax

Presque Isle Downs live poker update

The poker room is currently closed.

Information about Presque Isle Downs Poker Room:

Seven tables
Games like hold’em and Omaha. Also offering multitable and single-table tournaments (sit and go’s)

Rivers Casino Philadelphia live poker update

Rivers Philadelphia reopened poker on Oct. 23. But it is closed once again as of Nov. 20 along with the casino to comply with city orders. It could reopen as soon as Jan. 1.

Cards are in the air! Welcome back players! $200 high hands are on every hour 24/7 all of October! Call 215-717-3883 to reserve your seat. pic.twitter.com/MwcxTABsNM

— Rivers Philadelphia Poker Room (@riverspokerphl) October 23, 2020

Information about Rivers Casino Philadelphia Poker Room:

28 tables
Rivers offers a wide variety of poker games, including, but not limited, to Texas hold’em, Omaha-high, Omaha-hi/lo split eight or better, seven-card stud high, seven-card stud low, seven-card stud hi/lo split and seven-card stud hi/lo split eight or better.
Poker promotions and tournaments listed on site when available.

Rivers Casino Pittsburgh live poker update

Rivers Casino Pittsburgh opened on Nov. 11. And beginning Nov. 16, Rivers Pittsburgh will operate 24/7, according to their twitter.

We are excited to announce that the Poker Room will be opening on Wednesday, November 11th at 4PM. We can’t wait to welcome you back!

Learn more about what you can expect and current hours: https://t.co/heQ3qJyQbV

Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-Gambler pic.twitter.com/FjgJY2cC7v

— Rivers Casino Pittsburgh (@WinBigRivers) November 10, 2020

Information about Rivers Casino Pittsburgh Poker Room:

30 tables
Poker promotions and tournaments listed on site when available

Wind Creek Bethlehem live poker update

Wind Creek poker room remains closed.

Information about Wind Creek Bethlehem Poker Room:

26 tables
Variety of games such as limit and no-limit Texas hold ’em, stud and Omaha. Limits starting at $3 and $6
Automated shufflers on every poker game
Bad Beat Jackpot available daily
Massage service

Lady Luck Nemacolin and Valley Forge do not have poker rooms. PlayPennsylvania exclusively reported that Harrah’s Philadelphia closed its WSOP-branded room in August.

More online poker operators coming to PA

PokerStars arrived in Pennsylvania in November 2019 and has been the state’s only operator for 11 months. Partypoker was rumored to be coming in the early fall, but like most party plans in 2020, it hasn’t happened.

Last week, the PGCB approved Caesars‘ online poker partner 888 Holdings for an interactive gaming manufacturer license. 888 Poker was the No. 1 poker website in the country last year. It has a self-branded poker platform, and its software powers World Series of Poker (WSOP) online and mobile sites.

It seems only a matter of time before both partypoker and WSOP.com make their way to PA.

Health and safety at PA casinos

Here are a few things you should know in case you have not been to a casino since they reopened. Per the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, all casinos in the state must follow the COVID-19 Casino Reopening Protocols, which detail the minimum safety and health-related requirements that are mandatory before reopening.

Casinos may also choose to have additional measures, such as temperature checks at the entrance.