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November 4, 2005
HEADLINE:
Casino Arizona Awards the Largest Super Bad Beat Poker
Jackpot in Arizona History
BODY:
Did you ever think you could win a $250,000 jackpot with a low
hand? Neither did Tim Armstrong, but he did win the largest bad
beat poker jackpot in Arizona history at Casino Arizona at Talking
Stick on Monday, October 31. Armstrong of Chandler walked away
with a Halloween treat of $250,000 while playing in the Casino's
Stud and Hold'em Super Bad Beat Poker promotion. The other eight
players at the table shared the remaining $256,000, making this
$506,000 jackpot the largest poker jackpot during a promotion
ever awarded in Arizona, and possibly the largest in the world
paid by a Native American casino.
"I couldn't believe I had won," said Tim Armstrong.
"I was hoping the woman I was playing against had the ace
and king of diamonds, because if so, I knew I had won a quarter
of a million dollars." Armstrong added, "This is the
only time playing poker that I kept raising in hopes of having
the losing hand."
A regular poker player at Casino Arizona Armstrong, 45, moved
from California two years ago when he was laid off from a hi-tech
job. With a $100 buy-in and strategic play, he won the jackpot;
actually he lost the hand, which meant that he would walk home
with the top award of $250,000. The woman with the better hand
walked away with $125,000, while the remaining seven players shared
the rest of the jackpot.
"The excitement in the Talking Stick poker room when the
jackpot hit was like nothing I had ever seen before, and I would
like to congratulate our jackpot winners on behalf of Casino Arizona,"
said Kent Odekirk, poker manager for Casino Arizona. "With
more than 37 bad beat poker jackpots, plus $1.7 million paid to
poker players in October alone, why wouldn't they play here?"
Both players had a straight flush. The better hand was a royal
flush in diamonds. Armstrong, the winner of the jackpot, held
the eight and nine of diamonds.
Visit Casino Arizona's Web site at www.casinoaz.com for more
information.
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