For those of us that play poker often enough, we all catch a bad beat from time to time and walk away with nothing more than a story to tell, that nobody truly believes anyway. Last week at Playground, club member Sam Mashtoub found himself in a most unusual hand with a loaded board in front of him. Playground Poker Club offers a Bad Beat Jackpot in hold’em where any player that has Aces full of Kings or better beaten by a higher-ranking hand is awarded the cumulative Bad Beat Jackpot. Playground officially opened its doors on December 17th, which is when the first ever Bad Beat Jackpot was born and climbed to over $57,000 in just under eight weeks. Sam’s good friend was headed to the club on Tuesday, February 15th and invited him to come along for a firsthand look at the place. It was Sam’s first night […]