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This is to clarify a few things about winning prizes and the Bad Beat pot.

You don't have to enter the drawing every week. But if not entered you are not eligible for the drawing, any prizes, the bad beat pot or any cumulative weekly scores for prizes.

Winning on the river means you had at least one caller or check down after the river card was dealt and the river card made your hand the winner. Betting after the river with no callers does not count as winning on the river. If you had the winning hand after the turn and improved your hand on the river, this also is not winning on the river.

The Drawing Winner can gamble what they won against the Gambling Pool of Prizes.

Most gambling pool prizes have a small cash value if you want instead of the prize.

Winning the Bad Beat Pot #2 starts with the qualifying hand of 'losing with AAAJJ or better' on the river. The qualifying hand will start decreasing by 1 hand per week when the pot reaches $200. By decreasing the qualifying hand, someone should win before some of us are to old to play. As the pot gets larger the easier it will be to win.

The following 4 examples are for the qualifying hand of 'losing with AAAJJ or better'.

Example 1: Moe has 6♠7♠ - Curly has A♠Q♠ - flop is 8♠9♠10♠ - turn is J♠ - river is K♠
This is NOT a bad beat for Moe because Curly had Moe beat on the turn.
The river card improved Curly's hand but was not needed to win.

Example 2: Moe has 6♠7♠ - Curly has A♠Q♠ - flop is 8♠9♠10♠ - turn is K♠ - river is J♠
This is a bad beat for Moe because the river card gave Curly the winning hand.

Example 3: Moe has A♥K♥ - Curly has Q♣J♣ - flop is A♣K♣10♦ - turn is 10♣ - river is A♠
Again this is NOT a bad beat for Moe because Curly had Moe beat on the turn.
The river card gave Moe the minimum qualifying hand but Curly already won on the turn.

Example 4: Moe has A♥K♥ - Curly has Q♣J♣ - flop is A♣K♣10♦ - turn is A♠ - river is 10♣
This again is a bad beat for Moe because Moe had the minimum qualifying hand on the turn.
And the river card gave Curly the winning hand. Moe loses the hand but wins the Bad Beat Pot.

The 'minimum qualifying hand' has to be made on the flop or turn.

But four things have to happen to win the Bad Beat Pot:
1. You must have entered the drawing.
2. Both winning and losing hands have to use at least one hole card.
3. It must be the river card that makes your 'minimum qualifying hand' lose.
4. The hand has to go to a showdown. Your hand didn't lose without a caller after the river.

The amount you win is the percentage of drawings entered divided by the total drawings starting in 2011.