Delarosbil was paid $460,149, while Galle took home $230,088. In August 2017, across the border in Canada, a $1,210,989 bad beat jackpot at hit Playground Poker Club when Shane Galle rivered a straight flush against the quad jacks of Elphege Delarosbil at a $1/2 no-limit hold'em table. The total jackpot pool was at $1,068,590, more than $200,000 less than was paid out at Rivers Casino this week. In 2018, a player won $427,452 at Motor City Casino in Detroit when his quad threes lost to quad kings.
The $1.22 million awarded at Rivers was far and away the largest in United States live poker history. Biggest But Not the Only Massive Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Poker bad beat jackpot at Motor City Casino in Detroit, MI (2018).
