HitTheBadBeat.com is a service provided by SyTech Solutions LLC. This service was created to solve an ongoing challenge faced by both poker players, and poker rooms which offer progressive jackpots. The problem at the moment is that there is no way to have truly real time jackpot information for these progressive jackpots. This is because most of these jackpots are funded by taking a portion of each pot, or a portion of each rake, and adding it to the jackpot. Because of this, the closest most poker rooms can get to publishing real time jackpots is to count the money collected for the jackpot once a day, and then add it to the existing jackpot amount and post it somewhere in the poker room or online. This is typically done once a day, and because of that many players must either call a poker room to ask what the current jackpot is, or they must be physically present at the poker room to either see the posted jackpot or ask a poker room employee about it.

Although poker rooms are typically physically capable of posting the jackpot information online, it requires internal resources that are not always available, and sometimes the process to get this information online or to the players can be very inefficient. In addition to this, a poker room will only be able to provide their own jackpot information at the best. To solve this problem, HitTheBadBeat.com is a service provided to these poker rooms to let them focus on their core functions, while HitTheBadBeat.com facilitates the management and distribution of their jackpot information to the people who want it most.

This means no more calls to the poker room to find out what the jackpot value is. This means no surprises when the rules of a particular jackpot change. No more waiting on the phone just to check what the jackpot value is, with callers ahead of you doing the same. No more tying up poker room staff answering calls just to tell players what the jackpot is. No more players physically coming to the poker rooms for the jackpot information. Instead, there are empowered players with jackpot information coming to them in the way they prefer to receive it.

All of this leads to a more efficient poker room, and better chances for players to win bigger jackpots. HitTheBadBeat.com puts the power in the hands of the player by allowing poker players to find and track poker room jackpots based on their individual preferences.

Public visitors to the site have the ability to view the top jackpots that are being tracked and they can also search for a jackpot by the name of the poker room or the location. Registered users can do this as well, and they can also configure subscriptions and alerts which allow the information to come to them just as they want it, instead of them coming to the information.

Any jackpot can be tracked by a registered user in three ways; via instant alerts, weekly emails, or both.

An instant alert allows a player to configure specific events or criteria to trigger an instant email notifying the player of the jackpot status. An instant alert allows a player to configure alerts for when a jackpot exceeds or falls below a specified amount, or when the rules of a particular jackpot change. The user has the ability to configure weekly alerts as well, which will provide them with a weekly email with the status of all of the jackpots they are tracking. This includes the jackpot value, and rules associated with it. If a player is tracking multiple jackpots with weekly alerts, the information for all of them will be combined into a single email with a summary of all of them. Users can also choose to enable both of weekly and instant alerts for any jackpot.

Unfortunately, as the information required to make this service possible is only available from the poker rooms themselves it requires a subscription from the poker rooms who wish to have their jackpot information displayed and distributed with HitTheBadBeat.com. This is why you may not find a specific poker room jackpot here. If this is the case, we strongly urge you to contact the poker room manager and tell them about HitTheBadBeat.com, or tell us about it so we can contact the poker room and let them know what they are missing out on.