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Bad Beat Progressive Jackpot And Magic Hand Bonus At Golden Riviera Poker.

Check out for the recent promotions at Golden Riviera Poker Room. You can claim huge sign-up bonus and win big progressive jackpot even if you lose the hand.

Bad Beat Progressive Jackpot

If Four of a Kind or better is beaten, the loser of the hand receives 50% of the progressive bad beat jackpot, the winner gets 25%, and the remaining 25% is split among the other players in the hand. You can't lose!

Progressive Bad Beat rules:

Starts at $500, with $50 added each day.
Real money tables only.
Standard non-tournament tables only.
4 or more people must have received cards.
Hold'em games only.
4 of a Kind, 8's or better must be beaten.
Both hole cards must be used in the winner and loser's hands.
Players sitting out do not qualify.
No special rake is taken to fund the bad beat jackpot.
In the even of 2 or more bad beats in the same hand, the jackpot will be split equally. 50% to the bad beat, 25% to the winner of the hand and 25% split equally between the other players.

Magic Hand Promotion

Each hand dealt at Golden Riviera Poker is assigned a number. From time to time Golden Riviera Poker management picks a hand number at random in advance and declares it a Magic Hand and establishes what the prizes will be. When that magic hand is dealt, the winner of the hand wins the main prize and all other players in the game each get a second bonus amount. (If you sit out, you don't qualify!).

Every 500 000 hand is a Magic Hand
Three people must receive cards in the hand
Must be a real money table
Must be a ring game table (hold'em, Omaha, 5 card stud, 7 card stud)
Winner of the hand will get $250.00
All other players that received cards will have $250 divided equally amongst them.

New 100% Match Welcome Bonus

Receive attractive 100% match up to incredible $1,000 in free chips. To claim the bonus players need to download the free Golden Riviera Poker software and register a Real money account for the first time. Players will be awarded the 100% deposit bonus (up to a maximum of a $1,000 bonus) if the following terms are met:

The Player earns 10 Golden points for every $1 claimed (Golden Points can only be earned at cash tables with minimum stakes of $0.25/$0.50 or higher).
The player will receive their bonus in $10 increments every time he/she reaches 100 Golden points.
A maximum bonus is $1,000.
Players have 21 days to accumulate their purchases up to $1,000.
Only Raked hands must be played at online poker tables with limits no lower than $0.25/$0.50.
Players have 60 days to clear their bonus from the time of their initial deposit.
The bonus will be credited to the player's poker account automatically within 12 hours once the player has reached the necessary number of points.

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