Not Again???!?!?!?

[AcesFull]

Hi Jim,

you're right it USED to always take about a Royal Flush to take down the UB high hand jackpot. That's before the recent complete change to the UB high hand jackpot reward.

Before the change, all of the micro-limits and play money players would get 5% of the jackpot amount based on the same qualifying hand as everyone. And other bigger limits would get a corresponding percentage of the jackpot amount. But all of the players in the games would share the same qualifying hand.

Now the micro-limits and play money players have their own jackpot qualifying hand and smaller pool. Not only do the real money players have their own larger pool and qualifying hand, but it's also split into two pools for holdem games and non-holdem games.

I was surprized a few days ago when I hit the ub high hand for Stud 3/6 with "only" a Queen high straight flush. In fact, when I checked the history of the jackpot in the UB lobby for the non holdem games, it lists that 2 out of the last 10 high hands as "only" high Quads (Jacks and Aces).

So, now they pay out four jackpots per 90 minutes instead of one like before. Two for real money (holdem and nonholdem games) and similiar for play/micro. But instead of paying the money all in cash, they give out half in cash and the other half as bonus dollars that you have play raked hands to release just like the bonus dollars you get when you deposit during promos.

Overall, I think it's a great promotional tool to bring in fish. There's no extra jackpot drop and it's not super hard like a bad beat jackpot.