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Table 32 of the Kennel Club poker room in Palm Beach was the venue for Thursday evening, Feb. 11.

Nine excited players took a piece of the $348,582 Bad Beat jackpot, and the lucky "lost" poker hand paid a whopping $174,293 to Philip Lee Clements.

PBKC's rules say that if a player with at least four teenagers loses, the loser gets half of the Bad Beat jackpot. The winner of the hand gets 25 percent, and the people sitting at the table share the other 25 percent. The "lost" hand received $174,293, the actual winning hand received $87,146, and the remaining seven players received $12,449 each.

Son winner Joseph Santoro of Orlando, Florida, was in town to compete at WSOP Circuit Events at PBKC (Feb. 4-15).

Santoro said, "Earlier, I was eliminated from the WSOP competition, and it was the best competition I was eliminated from."

This was Santoro's first Bad Beat jackpot.

"I was just lucky to be in the right place at the right time, so the cards played themselves," he added.

In NL Texas Hold'em, Sergio Chang played a poker game in which each player held two of his cards and shared five community cards.

The Palm Beach Kennel Club's $504,833 Bad Beat Jackpot