Poker Jackpots

Poker Jackpots are becoming increasingly popular amongst online players looking for a big win, and unlike the conventional brick and mortar poker site offering nothing more than a "bad beat jackpot" online poker players have the oppurtunity to win big jackpots in poker in a variety of ways. Of course, you can find many online poker rooms with bad beat jackpots, but poker players can also win other types of poker jackpots at literally dozens of online poker sites.

Players gambling for poker jackpots online have serious advantages over land based poker rooms, low limits and less strict jackpot qualifications help, as does the fact that players can get rakeback and play multiple tables. Bad Beat Jackpots run up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a few have even accumulated up to a one million dollar payday.

Types Of Poker Jackpots

There is a few basic types of poker jackpots, with the most well known type of poker jackpot being "bad beat poker jackpots" which are offered both at online poker sites and live casinos.  There is also jackpot tournaments, usually in the form of Jackpot SNG tournaments.  These are just single table tournaments as normal, but a progressive poker jackpot is offered to anyone who wins multiple Jackpot SNG's in a row. That's not all the poker jackpot offers offered online either, some sites have special "bonuses" that are simliar to a jackpot. For example, Merge Poker Network will pay you 40x the BB of the limit you are playing just for making a royal flush, it does not have to be a beat.

Last but surely not least is the progressive poker jackpots found in table games, such as CyberStud or Caribbean Stud and Let It Ride, as well as other three card poker variations.

Bad Beat Poker Jackpots

Bad beat jackpots in poker are the most well known and recognized of all poker jackpots, with jackpots ranging anywhere from the size of the pot to over a million dollars. Most bad beat poker jackpots are progressive, using an extra portion of the rake to fund the prize pool. Some bad beat jackpots have fixed payouts, or pay in multiples of the big blinds. These types of bad beat jackpots tend to have the easiest qualifying hands, which is why they pay less. Poker sites offering poker bad beat jackpots see a lot of action, because players can literally win hundreds of thousands of dollars on a .25 stakes poker table. It's been done, and with more and more poker sites and poker networks offering bad beat jackpot tables, they are hitting more and more.

More about Bad Beat Poker Jackpots here.

It is widely believed that bad beat no limit holdem tables are the most action packed games found in lower limit online poker.

Poker Sites Offering Bad Beat Jackpots:

• Aced Poker
• Absolute Poker
• Ultimate Bet
• Party Poker
• BetOnBet
• Pacific Poker
• Lucky Ace Poker

Sit And Go Jackpots

Jackpot SNG tournaments have become increasingly popular amongst players on the Ipoker network, and some online poker rooms like Full Tilt Poker even offer up a few variations of "daily double jackpot tournaments" in which players compete in two multi-table jackpot tournaments for various prizes including best finish and making double final tables, if you happen to win both tournaments you take down the whole jackpot. 

Standard Jackpot SNGs are normal single table sng tournaments, in either 9 or 10 man versions and offered at stakes anywhere from $2 buy-ins to $200 jackpot sng entry fees.  Payouts are the same as normal, but the entry fee or "rake" charged at poker sites with Jackpot sngs is bumped up to cover the progressive payout, which can be anywhere from $2,000 to $200,000 in jackpot sng payouts.  These are extremely popular jackpot tournaments on most skins of the iPoker Network.

Other Poker Jackpots

And for poker rooms offering online poker jackpots in the form of sit and go tournaments:

• Mansion Poker
• Bet365 Poker
• Titan Poker