November 4

In Arizona, at the Pima-Maricopa Indian reservation, a record breaking poker pot was won. Online poker players are astounded at how easy it was to win, too.

Online gambling players are learning that the $250,000 October 31 jackpot was won on a low hand as well. Poker player Tim Armstrong, won the biggest bad beat poker jackpot in Arizona history at Casino Arizona at Talking Stick.

Armstrong walked away with an extra Halloween treat if you will. He won it playing the casino's Stud and Holdem Super Bad Beat tourney. The other 8 poker players at the table shared the remaining $256,000, making this $506,000 jackpot the largest poker jackpot during a promotion ever awarded in Arizona, and possibly the largest in the world paid by a Native American casino.

A regular poker player at Casino Arizona Armstrong, 45, moved from California two years ago when he was laid off from a hi-tech job. With a $100 buy-in and strategic play, he won the jackpot; actually he lost the hand, which meant that he would walk home with the top award of $250,000. The woman with the better hand walked away with $125,000, while the remaining seven players shared the rest of the jackpot.

Both poker players had a straight flush. The better hand was a royal flush in diamonds. Armstrong, the winner of the jackpot, held the eight and nine of diamonds. Online gambling fans are impressed with this.