The website Absolute Poker is pleased to announce that its Bad Beat Jackpot was won on Sunday evening. The jackpot bells rang just short $4,000 of hitting the $1 million mark. The $996,115.28 jackpot is the largest Bad Beat Jackpot ever won in online poker history.

An Absolute Poker spokesperson said, “We are achieving milestones, breaking records and making ordinary poker players very rich. The Bad Beat Jackpot continues to attract a large number of poker players to the site.”

The jackpot was won on Sunday exactly a year after the site launched the Texas Hold’em-based jackpot game. The winner of the latest jackpot, goes by the screen name RIVERMAN1969, and is a resident of Pasadena, Maryland.

RIVERMAN1969 lost a hand of Texas Hold’em with four tens to BFOXY’s four queens, securing $325,212.40 for his loss. BFOXY left the table $163,343.67 richer and 88 other players shared an additional $163,343.67.

The recent jackpot tops the previous industry record also held by Absolute Poker. On August 29th, 2007, the site broke the earlier record for the largest Bad Beat Jackpot ever won. With large numbers of players flocking to the site for a chance of winning thousands of dollars in cash just by losing a game of Texas Hold’em.

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