GTECH G2’s IPN Poker Network Pays Out €507,144 Bad Beat Jackpot

GTECH G2’s IPN Poker Network Pays Out €507,144 Bad Beat Jackpot
Bad Beat Jackpot at Europe’s Largest Independent Poker Network Easier to Win than Most

30-12-2009 (Stockholm, Sweden) – A player on GTECH G2’s International Poker Network (IPN) hit the network’s massive Bad Beat Jackpot this week when his Quad Kings lost to a Royal Flush.

A player known as 72osROCKS!, the loser of the hand but winner of the Bad Beat Jackpot, received €177,500. Hand winner Nogis22 got €88,750 and the other three players at the table each won €29,583.

“I was pretty EXCITED when I found myself holding four Kings,” said the winner, “My heart sank when I saw my opponent’s Royal Flush – but that changed quickly when I realized I was playing at a Bad Beat table!”

The Bad Beat Jackpot was created to help ease the frustration of losing even when you’re dealt great cards. With a jackpot requirement starting at Quad 6s, the IPN’s Bad Beat Jackpot is easier to win than most.

To qualify for the Bad Beat at IPN poker rooms, players must be at a designated Bad Beat table and use both pocket cards in their winning or losing hand. The losing hand must be four-of-a-kind sixes or better. Four or more players must be dealt into the hand.

The IPN is Europe’s largest independent Poker Network. It recently celebrated its 3,000,000th player and dealt its billionth hand last year. The IPN includes such popular poker sites as VirginPoker.com, PokerHeaven.com and the Casino-Club.com poker room. There is a list of International Poker Network poker sites at Poker rooms – Multi-language poker sites.

GTECH G2 is the igaming division of lottery industry giant, GTECH. It combines the software development and customer management expertise of Boss Media, Finsoft, Dynamite Idea and St Minver and operates the International Poker Network and International Bingo Network.

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For further information:
Larry Colcy, Lyceum Media
+44 (0)207 976 6469 [email protected]

About GTECH G2 (G2 – GTECH Digital Gaming & Sports Betting)
GTECH G2 brings together — under one brand — the combined expertise of GTECH and its extensive lottery insight with leaders in the interactive gaming world providing a complete gaming portfolio of poker, bingo, casino, sportsbetting, fully managed services and instant games. The group includes Boss Media (Boss Media), a leading innovator in software and systems for Poker, Casino and Bingo entertainment; Finsoft (Finsoft Ltd), a leading provider of enterprise-wide real time trading solutions for the commercial sports betting industry – both interactive and retail; St Minver (White label gaming solutions: Gaming network operators), a fully managed service provider of Internet games to media, lifestyle, and other brands; and Dynamite Idea (Dynamite Idea), a developer of unique, innovative digital instant and side games. Consolidating combined talent and expertise into one premiere brand means that GTECH G2 can provide a flexible digital solution to all customers, large or small, wherever they may be.