On Friday afternoon the first Bad Beat Jackpot was hit with ‘KiwiiGreg’ taking home a whopping $137,545.83 after his quad 8’s were beaten by quad 10’s held by ‘Occasio84′. ‘Occasio84′ was smiling too after picking up close to $69,000. The remaining players at the table also took home close to $10, 000 each just for being part of the action.

On Sunday our second Bad Beat Jackpot went off when ‘cougarsofcal’ found himself holding quad 7’s which, fortunately for him, were trumped by ‘lsp123′ quad 9’s. Despite the Bad Beat Jackpot going off just a couple of days before, ‘cougarsofcal’ still walked away from the table with a cool $32,475.67 while ‘lsp123′ won just over $16,000. It was still a sweet deal for the other players at the table who each took home their share of just over $4,000 just for being dealt into the hand.

Check out our specially marked Bad Beat tables today and be the next player to walk away smiling after the worst of the Bad Beats!

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The tournament will feature 27 players and will be held at the Rio in Las Vegas. The event is being called the $1 Million 2010 WSOP Tournament of Champions Freeroll and will be shown on ESPN on August 3rd.

There will be five automatic entries to the All Star Game these will be the last three WSOP Tournament of Champions winners and the reigning WSOP and WSOP Europe Main Event champion from 2009, Joe Cada and Barry Shulman, and two seats will be sponsor exemptions awarded by WSOP officials.  A fan vote by the general public will determine the remaining 20 seats. The balloting has already opened on WSOP.com and ends at midnight on June 15^th. The only rule is that the public must vote for a WSOP bracelet holder.

The Tournament of Champions Freeroll prize money of $1 million will be split between the top nine players, tournament winner receiving $500,000. It is expected to become an annual event at the World Series of Poker in Vegas.

The final six players out of the 745 participants were: Andras Koroknai, Michael Kamran, Raymond Dolan, Tri Huynh, Gevork Kasabyan and Jean-Claude Moussa. Surprisingly none of the usual suspects such as Duke, Chan or Mortensen were in the running.

Dolan was heads up against Koroknai in the end but Andras had a 13 to 1 chip advantage making the outcome a quick affair. In fact it lasted for just one hand, as Dolan called off his remaining chips with Q-4 and found himself up against Koroknai’s Q-8 of hearts. The action flop came 10-9-4 with two hearts, giving Dolan bottom pair and Koroknai a flush draw. The turn was a seven, giving Koroknai even more outs and raising the tension. The king of hearts hit as the jackpot card on the river and Koroknai took the money and a seat at the WPT World Championship in April.

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