How do you run a bad beat jackpot in a home game?

[Hedge Henderson]

I tried it once, but I doubt I'll do it again. When you've only got one table going, setting the qualifications can be tricky. One week, you'll have boat (or better) over boat three times, and the next week, you get nothing better than flush over straight.

To complicate matters, we sometimes play several different games over the course of the evening. Who gets the jackpot for the night? The trip tens losing to trip aces in five-stud, the deuces full losing to tens full in 5-draw, the eights full losing to jacks full in hold 'em, or the quad deuces falling to the baby straight flush in Omaha/8?