Massive £140K Bad Beat Jackpot Claimed at Grosvenor’s London Victoria Casino

There are not many poker players who enjoy being on the receiving end of a bad beat, but Renato Rossi may be one of those rare creatures. On the evening of May 24, Rossi was playing a No-Limit Texas Hold’em cash game at the luxurious Grosvenor London Victoria Casino when he endured a serious bad beat.

Rossi tabled quad sixes, which would ordinarily win the pot. However, Leon Scoon flipped over Four of a Kind aces in a rare hand where Rossi was destined to go broke with one of the strongest poker hands. Instead of ruing his bad luck, Rossi was delighted to see his powerful hand crushed because it meant he had won Grosvenor Casinos’ National Bad Beat Jackpot.

The jackpot, the largest in United Kingdom circles, weighed in at £140,000 when this epic hand triggered it. Under the jackpot’s rules, Rossi received a cool £42,000 for being the bad beat victim, while Scoon reeled in £21,000 for having the winning hand.

It wasn’t only Rossi and Scoon who banked jackpot prizes because everyone else at their table shared £7,000, while anyone playing Texas Hold’em at a Grosvenor Casinos venue at 7:57 p.m. BST on May 24 shared £70,000! The current estimate puts that at almost £400 per player, with 176 players grinding away at various Grosvenor Casinos.

Amazingly, this is the third consecutive Bad Beat Jackpot won at The London Victoria!

The jackpot has now reset to £75,000 and will continue growing at 6:00 p.m. BST every Thursday until it is hit again. Currently, quad aces need to be beaten to trigger the jackpot, but the hand requirement will reduce in strength the longer the jackpot goes unwon; Four of a Kind deuces is the lowest jackpot-triggering hand that pays out.

While £140,000 is an incredible sum, it is not the largest Bad Beat Jackpot that Grosvenor Casinos has paid out. That honor goes to the colossal £380,000 won in Sunderland in December 2021. On that occasion, Michael Wharton‘s quad tens lost to the straight flush of Adam Smith. Wharton banked £114,000 of the jackpot, while Smith walked away with £57,000.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.