Payment of $100k Bad Beat Poker Jackpot Declined by Royal River Casino

Two years after in Flandreau Royal River Casino declined to pay of $96,000 ‘bad beat’ jackpot to ten players at their poker room, the group hasn’t given up on their struggle to have the casino pay the money. The event took place two years ago when ten players were enjoying a game of Texas Hold’em at a Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe casino.

The main characters in the hand were Mr. Williams holding pocket A’s and Mr. Brian with pocket Q’s. With the Ac-Qd-x being dealt on the flop, both players had successfully made a set, but Qs on the turn offered Mr. Brian four of a kind to his rival’s full house.

According to Royal River jackpot that their bad beat is paid in a situation when a full house of aces over 10s or better is beaten by a straight flush or four of a kind. At this point, the loser of the hand would have collected $48,000, the winner $24,000, and the remaining eight players have collected around $3,000 each; that is until one more players on the turn uttered the words ‘bad beat’, in infringement of rules of casino, and the dealer banned the hand from the bonus.

Telling more about his excitement turning into displeasure Mr. Williams said there was no doubt that he was thrilled and it was the best feeling which anybody can have. Then to have it deprived of is surely the worst feeling. The players chose to wait into the evening hoping that the casino might change their decision and at one stage the security guards had to be called in.

In spite of taking their case to Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s gaming commission, after that through tribal court and tribal appellate court, the group have found the decision of the casino upheld and as Ms. Sherry; the General Manager at Royal River at the time of the incident clarifies, everything was rightly in position and that is the reason they won the case. According to her the result would be surely different if the things were not rightly in position. They were totally acquainted with the rules.

Mr. Williams has promised to continue to fight to restore Royal River jackpot and he has also requested to American Civil Liberties Union to investigate the case.