Look Honey!

I'm with a bunch of friends over at Circus Circus, where some of us are
playing table games, some of us are upstairs at the midway, and Garrett
is playing $1-3 poker.  We have reservations for the steakhouse in the
casino, which was recommended by some dealers at the Tropicana as one
of the best steak places in Las Vegas.  Reservation time rolls around
and we congregate at the restaurant, but Garrett is nowhere to be found.
We get our table, and he zooms in to tell us his table hit the bad beat
jackpot and zooms out.  Later, he tells us this story.

First a brief explanation of bad beat jackpots.  Some casinos offer a
special jackpot if you get a very strong hand and lose.  The details
vary from casino to casino, but typically for Texas hold'em, it happens
if someone has aces full or better beaten by four of a kind or better.  
Usually the person who loses with an eligible hand gets half the jackpot,
the person who wins the pot gets a quarter of the jackpot, and the remaining
quarter is divided among the other players at the table.  The jackpot
grows over time and can get quite large, many thousands of dollars.

Garrett is playing in this dinky game (dime ante), when they hit the
jackpot.  Instant party.  The jackpot is over $8000, so the guy that
got beat will collect over $4000, the winner gets over $2000, and every
other person makes over $300 just for being there.  It takes some time
to gather the money and handle the paperwork, so the table continues
to play (and that's why Garrett was late to dinner).

You've never played at a happy poker table until you've played at one
where the bad beat jackpot has just been hit.  The jackpot payouts are
so much more than the stakes of the game, that everyone is throwing
money around.  Garrett picks up some extra money in this now really
loose game.

The money arrives, and is carefully counted out by the floorman on the
table for the cameras.  That's forty $100 bills (and change) for the
big winner, which about covers the table.  The $4000 jackpot winner takes
ten of the bills, and puts them in his shoe.  What was that for?

His female companion shows up about then.  He scoops up the cash, runs
over, and gives her a big hug, saying, "Look, honey!  I won THREE THOUSAND
DOLLARS!"  She must have wondered what the rest of the table thought
was so funny.