Bad beat mania broke out big time this week in Atlantic City with early returns showing that somewhere near $900,000 in monies were paid out in three days, including today. We haven’t been able to sure up all the details from this bevy of hits, but here’s what we know.

The Tropicana bad beat jackpot, the biggest in the city, has finally hit for about $543,000, more than one month after topping $500K. The hit came Thursday, Oct. 13, at a $2, $4, $6 limit game.

Exact details haven’t been released, but the jackpot winner, Alan H. Silvani

Trop bad beat jackpot winner Silvani

from Toms River, won more than $217,000. The hand winner won $108,500 and $27,100 went to eight other players.

Like we said, this ends several months of a high level of play at the about 40-table Tropicana room since the jackpot first hit $300,000 in the summer and is by far a record payout for the Trop.

“Actually, I’m kind of sorry to see it hit,” says Bruce Pearlman, poker room manager for the Trop. “I mean I’m happy for the winners and sure, we were working hard, but that’s what we do. The room was full, the players were happy, the dealers were happy. That’s the point of the jackpot, to build some excitement.”

One strategy that seems to have worked was the low rake for the jackpot since it hit about $300K. That’s allowed the casino to reset its jackpot at $241,554, already the second highest in the city behind The Borgata.

“By Christmas, I’d like to see it back up there again,” says Pearlman.

The Taj Mahal’s bad beat jackpot hit Wednesday for $200,276.56.

Quad fives lost to quad eights (remember, the Taj has the old-fashioned minimum of quad deuces) and a guy named Tom Miller won $100,138.50. The hand winner won $50,069.25 and seven other players at the table won $7,152.75.

At the moment, the Taj bad beat is at $52K which makes you think there may have been yet another hit in between Wednesday and today (these things usually reset at about $100K). We’re checking.

Finally, the Caesars Entertainment combined bad beat jackpot hit today (Oct. 14). It’s the seventh hit of the combined since early August and the second hit since Oct. 3.  The Jackpot was $143,593. It’s now at $103,912.

The minimum hand was set at quad 10s. The winning hand was four  queens beating four jacks, The bad beat winner got $43,409 and the winning hand was paid $29,150 20. There were 111 players in the four Harrah’s rooms and each was paid $631.

So whew. That’s $885,000 in bad beat money for sure, and possibly another about $100,000 if The Taj did see a second hit.

And that’s since Wednesday. Today’s Friday.

There’s a reason the bad beat jackpots are worth following.

Meanwhile the only untouched bad beat jackpot is at The Borgata, which is now at $285,000 and had a hit on its small bad beat ($50K) last week,

You gotta figure its due.

It’s been awhile since there was a crowded weekend schedule in A.C. poker, but that’s mostly because the Borgata is the only poker room currently scheduling tournament events. And so, with The Borgata Open underway, we have stuff on the schedule.

The WPT's Layla Kayleigh

But the biggest attraction in town may still be the Tropicana’s bad beat jackpot, which is now at about $506,000 going into Friday’s play. Again, we’ve told you why the jackpot won’t rise quickly over the weekend, but really, $506K is already pretty sweet.

Meanwhile, the Caesars Combined bad beat jackpot is back down to $100,000 as it hit again on Thursday for $132,000 at 7pm at Harrah’s Resort.

That’s the second hit in a week as it hit Sunday (Sept. 4) for $207,000, and the fourth time the combined jackpot has hit since early August.

This time it was a straight up quad queens losing to quad aces, which covered the high minimum hand for the jackpot, which was at quad jacks.

The players were unidentified again (they’re shy), but the bad beat winner received $39,976, the hand winner got $26,770 and 96 players in Caesars Entertainment’s four rooms got $359 each. (more…)

News has come down of another big hit of a bad beat jackpot, this time at The Tropicana. The jackpot hit for $294,992.78 about 9:30pm Tuesday.

That means in a span of four days, Atlantic City’s bad beat jackpots have hit three times and paid out more than $1.2 million dollars to 25 players.

This hit was a classic quads losing to quads and made the Trop’s quad eights minimum.

Michael Gendal of Coram NY hit quad nines at a $1/$2 No Limit table. A player wishing to remain anonymous (try that with the IRS, pal) hit quad jacks.

Gendal wins $117,997.78 while anonymous boy wins $58,998.58. Six remaining players won $16,856 each.

The about $295K bad beat was pretty high for the 35-table room at the Trop. With hits at The Borgata, The Taj and now the Trop, the Caesars combined bad beat could be next. It’s at $327,633 with four eights as the minimum.

Gendal and another big check