As you can see (from my expert screen cap + cropping skillzzzz), the Thanksgiving Jackpot is now over $13K! You guys are hitting the Special Turkey SitNGos hard right now.

We are almost halfway through the month, so there is still time to crack your way into the top 128 players on the Leaderboard and become eligible for a unique starting stack in our Thanksgiving Heads up Grand Slam Finale.

Interested? I thought so.

Track the Leaderboard here and look for the Turkey SnGs in the player admin.

Bring yourself some luck this Friday the 13th, and compete for this growing jackpots.

The Final Table was the longest in the event’s history – logging over 17.5 hours of play until only two remained.

Joe Cada was the eventual winner – beating out Darvin Moon in heads up action last night.

Here’s the breakdown of the Final Table Winners:

Joe Cada – $8.55Million

Darvin Moon – $5.18Million

Antoine Saout – $3.48Million

Eric Buchman – $2.5Million

Jeff Shulman – $1.95Million

Steven Begleiter – $1.59Million

Phil Ivey – $1.4Million

Kevin Schaffel – $1.3Million

James Akenhead – $1.2Million

Half of each Turkey SnG goes into the Jackpot for the top 128 players on the leaderboard – so there is still time to crack into a good spot on the leaderboard and be eligible for a piece of the ever-expanding prize pool.

As of this afternoon (pictured) the official count is $10,767.90. We’ll hit $11K soon, and then keep going. We seeded the Jackpot with $2,500, and now it’s all up to you guys.

Keep playing and watch it grow!

The CarbonPoker Thanksgiving jackpot has grown by over $1000 in the last 24 hours. You guys are rabid!

As of 13:06:24 Server Time on November 5, 2009 (that’s official!), the Jackpot is weighing in at $7,289.25. And that’s pre-cooked.

You guys still have 3.5 weeks to baste that into a pretty insane prizepool for the heads up leaderboard championship. Remember, you need to finish in the top 128 to get a spot and try for the payout.

Here’s the breakdown of how you get points:

1c of entry fee = 1 leaderboard point

Buy-in	Total LB Points	Points for 1st	Points for 2nd
$2 + 20c	40	28	12
$5 + 50c	100	70	30
$10 + $1	200	140	60
$25 + $2.50	500	350	150
$50 + $5	1000	700	300

And just so you know, you’re still not late to the party. There is plenty of time to crack the upper echelon of the leaderboard. Get grinding, turkeys.

The good people at CarbonPoker seeded the jackpot with $2,500 and you players have jacked it up to over $6K already. If that’s not enough motivation to work your way up the leader board, I’m not sure you should even keep reading this.

As I told you before, half of each Turkey Jackpot SnG gets thrown into the Final Tourney Jackpot. The top 128 players on the Thanksgiving leader board will face off in a unique starting stack heads up bracket tourney (say that 3 times fast) at the end of the promotion.

Track the Thanksgiving Leader Board here to see how far you need to go to increase your stack. If the first four days are any indication, there will be a lot to play for at the end of the month.

Current Leaders:

1. sliekas
2. mazokie
3. LTUFlawless
4. Edener2012
5. Smaggie
6. vader46
7. freeroller4
8. 27imod
9. mart1129
10. racer13

CarbonPoker’s Bad Beat Jackpot is one of my favorite promos. It’s just a nice bonus to keep in the back of your mind when you’re playing at one of our designated BBJ Tables.

As you’ve seen lately, we’ve been spitting out Bad Beat Jackpots like watermelon seeds at the hillbilly olympics, so I thought I’d let you know about how the payouts work.

Basically, you play Hold’em as usual until something amazing happens. Simple, no? If you’re on one of our BBJ tables and a Quad 7 or BETTER is beaten, then the jackpot goes off — this is the lowest qualifier online. As seen in the image above, here is the payout structure:

• 35% to the loser of the hand
• 17.5% to the winner of the hand
• 17.5% to other players in the hand (that means no sitting out and getting paid!)
• 20% to reseeding the jackpot
• 10% to Merge Gaming

If you’re playing at a non-BBJ table and your quad Kings gets pwnd by a Royal Flush, you’re out of luck, but stick to the BBJs for increased action.

We know with the lowest qualifier online (Quad 7s or better losing), our Jackpot would be more frequent, but lately the RNGs have been dealing up bad beats at a frantic pace.

Just this morning, starterkit’s Queen High Straigh Flush bested GLADIATOR8791’s Quad 8s in a hand with a $23 pot on one of our Bad Beat Jackpot Tables. You know the rest.

$42,633.32 was awarded to GLADIATOR8791 and starterkit’s bankroll was padded with an additional $21,316.66. A slice of $3,045.23 was handed out to the remaining 7 players at the table — proving once again that losing can be profitable. CarbonPoker is the home of Bad Beats lately.

Because the Jackpots have gone off so often lately, these guys weren’t close to our $1.2Million Bad Beat Jackpot payout, but I’m sure they’ll still take it.

As usual, the Jackpot has been reseeded and is already growing. Check it out on the Homepage to see it increase in real time.

We paid out over $167,000 to the Bad Beat Jackpot winners — oh yeah, that was on a > $75 pot. That’s some sweet action.

Last night, it was a Royal Flush (spades) beating out 4 Kings. Congrats to rangerjay1 for hitting the top prize of $58,456.93 (and losing with quad Kings), and callmeguys for his $29,228.46 take from the jackpot.

Oh yeah — and the players who were present (and wisely got out of the way of these hands) pulled in $4,175.49. As always, just sitting there and bringing in a few grand? That’s the easiest money in poker.

It’s just cool to see that the Jackpot can go off at any time. It keeps people on their toes and the Bad Beat tables busy. Remember – you can’t hit the Bad Beat Bonus without playing at a designated Bad Beat table.

Because the jackpot went off so recently, it wasn’t a massive Bad Beat Jackpot Payout, but as you can tell, these guys are all still pleased with it.

Here is a snippet of the chat, after the jackpot went off:

” Fullcasa44>sweet
allinMustbethemoney>YES !!!!!!!
Paymepal>awesome
callmeguys>gg
allinMustbethemoney>How sweet is that !
Paymepal>u guys are the best
Paymepal>lol
Fullcasa44>good job guys “

As always, the Jackpot has been reseeded and is ready for the next winner. I can only assume that it’ll go off tomorrow.

After the yump, check out the full money breakdown, pot size and hand breakdown.

Payout:

callmeguys Wins $74.58 from Pot 1 with : Royal Flush
DoctorOz Wins $4,175.49 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)
allinMustbethemoney Wins $4,175.49 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)
Fullcasa44 Wins $4,175.49 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)
rockker2 Wins $4,175.49 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)
epiderma Wins $4,175.49 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)
Paymepal Wins $4,175.49 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)
rangerjay1 Wins $58,456.93 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Loser)
vegaspkchamp Wins $4,175.49 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Other)
callmeguys Wins $29,228.46 from the Bad Beat Jackpot (Bad Beat Winner)

The Hand:

Starting Hand #20769030-51
DoctorOz is the Dealer
Shuffling Cards
allinMustbethemoney Posted Small Blind $0.50
Fullcasa44 Posted Big Blind $1.00
Dealing Cards
rockker2 Folds
epiderma Folds
Paymepal Folds
rangerjay1 Raised to $2.00
vegaspkchamp Folds
callmeguys Calls $3.00
DoctorOz Folds
allinMustbethemoney Folds
Fullcasa44 Calls $2.00
Dealing Flop (Qs,Ks,Kc)
Fullcasa44 Checks
rangerjay1 Checks
callmeguys Bets $4.00
Fullcasa44 Folds
rangerjay1 Calls $4.00
Dealing Turn (4h)
rangerjay1 Checks
callmeguys Checks
Dealing River (As)
rangerjay1 Bets $6.00
callmeguys Raised to $29.50
rangerjay1 All In for $24.29
callmeguys Shows (Js,Ts)
rangerjay1 Shows (Kd,Kh)
total pot amount is $83.29
total rake is $3.50
casino rake is $3.00
jackpot rake is $0.50
pot 1 is $74.58 (called, unsplit)
pot 2 is $5.21 (uncalled, unsplit)
$5.21 Returned to callmeguys from Pot 2
callmeguys Wins $74.58 from Pot 1 with : Royal Flush

In the wee hours of the morning, WhiteCSix’s Royal Flush beat baseball127’s straight flush on one of Carbon’s Bad Beat Tables.

As the loser of the hands, baseball127 cleaned up with a staggering $211,758.31. WhiteCSix’s Royal Flush was good for 6 figures as well, totaling $105,879.15. Decent, right?

As for the players that smartly got out of the way, they all earned $15,125.59. For just. sitting. there. /logs on to poker account… /plays hands… /hopes for $15K.

As you probably know, CarbonPoker has the lowest qualifier of any Bad Beat Jackpot online. Only Quad 7s or better need to be beaten for the bonus to payout. The guys playing last night, however, weren’t messing around and decided to show down with two of the biggest hands in poker.

If you missed out on the jackpot, don’t worry! The BBJ has been reseeded and currently sits at a sizable $125K. Sure, that’s less than baseball127 took down himself, but the Bad Beat Jackpot has a way of getting up there when you least expect it.

Earlier this year, we had a World Record payout of $1.2Million and another one of almost $750K. It seems that CarbonPoker just loves giving away cash.
Congrats on tbe big wins, guys. If you’re looking to make an investment… I know this really great blogger with a lot of big ideas… Just let me know.

We paid out $745K and $1.2Million earlier this year, and the jackpot has already reached $504K (at the time of writing). As soon as the total gets up to half a mill, we really see the action increase on Bad Beat Tables. You’ve gotta be playing on a Bad Beat table for the jackpot to be eligible.

As I’ve explained before, CarbonPoker’s Bad Beat Jackpot has THE LOWEST qualifier online (kind of like your sister). If you have a hand of Quad 7s or better beaten, the jackpot goes off. Everybody sitting at the table gets paid out, the hand’s “winner” gets paid out, and the “loser” gets the bulk of it.

So, losers, when your sure thing hand gets beaten at CarbonPoker, there is definitely a silver lining.

Just being around for it is good enough. The last time it paid out, guys that were sitting at the table received $18K — not to mention the $500K+ that went to the big winner. Life-changing cash, folks.

Hit the tables. Each played hand on the Bad Beat tables puts more cash into the Jackpot. Build it up and cash it out!