Saw a Royal at Let it Ride tonight!

Nice guy, friendly, pulling for everyone else all night (LiR is that kind of game), playing dimes in seat 1. He was just getting rolled by the cards, not playing good strategy, not getting anything worth playing either, but having fun. He was down about $700, and we were just talking about straight flushes, and I had just said that I had 4 to a sf once, and called it "deep breath territory". A couple hands later, he gives the "hold" signal; I pull back my first bet, and the next card is the Qh, pairing my Qc. And I look over, and he's white... and he flashes 10h/Jh/Kh... and gives the hold sign.... and me, and the dealer, and two kibitzers start chanting ACE! ACE! ACE...! And the dealer rolled the Ah!

$25k on the button, they paid him the $30 on the 3 Card dime, and instead of $10k/$10k/$10k on the bets they invoked the (clearly displayed) "$50,000 maximum payout" rule. He wasn't arguing, I might have but it was pretty clearly right there.

The only nicer guy it could have happened to was me. I sat there a while, gave him some high 5s, told him to make sure he got security to escort him to his car, etc. Of course the table was turned off for the next hour while they reviewed the hand, counted the cards, some dealers came over and congratulated him (he'd gone to high school with the one dealer's parents, knew a couple of the others). I hung around a while, curious to see how they were going to settle; in AC I'd seen them settle a straight flush with hundred dollar bills. But here they were going to give him a check and take taxes out, which I think is mandatory over $12k.

I was genuinely happy for him. I got up to take my leave, and he offered me a hundred, which I tried to refuse; but he insisted, saying that if I hadn't been at the seat between him and the roll cards he wouldn't have hit. I decided not to argue the point, it would have been rude and after all, $100 is $100. SO I took it, thanked him, and went down to the $5 Wheel of Fortune, my favorite vice in the whole casino, and I hit a spin for $400 and me & the Mrs went home and I sat down and typed this up.

Pretty awesome.

How does it feel knowing you'll almost certainly never see that again?

How does it feel knowing you are a total downer on a great story.

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Pretty awesome.

How does it feel knowing you'll almost certainly never see that again?

Quote: FinsRule

Pretty awesome.

How does it feel knowing you'll almost certainly never see that again?

Well, since one has already happened, the odds of seeing the next one are the same as seeing the first one, so.... no different, I guess!

My friend got a straight flush at a casino in Brighton (one of the few places in the UK that actually has let it ride), the guy next to him had the card he needed to make the other end of the straight flush, so he only had one card to hit his 4 to a straight flush. I said 'fucking hell!' and the dealer told me to calm down, and that it was nothing special. I asked if he know what the odds were, and he said about 100-1 !

I just laughed and told him he should be embarrassed he doesn't understand the game that he is dealing. He didn't understand my point at all.

This is just as awesome as seeing a royal at a Caribbean Stud, which my wife saw about 6 months ago at Casino Niagara (worth about 110K). She was two seats away. My biggest view was a SF at Caribbean for 5.8K at Ballys about a year ago.

What's all this about seeing a royal again?

I'd be satisfied if I ever saw only one, in my hand.

That's kind of lame that he didn't get the full payout. I wonder how much it increases the HA to be betting too much to get a full payout.
Probably not too bad in this particular case, I guess he was supposed to get $55030? But playing $15 under that rule would probably be ill-advised.

The button bet pay table is the one that has a 24.07% house advantage, and he was betting the table minimum, $10. I think once you've accepted the 23%, the other $5k doesn't matter when you win.

No one plays Let it Ride because of the odds; it gets played because you don't have to think much. It was a real blast to watch someone cash in... not the same type of blast as if it were me, but it was a blast.

EDIT: I just rememberd, he only originally had a flush in his hand; I was about to argue the point of him only getting $30 (3:1 payout) but I was thinking he had a straight flush in the 3-card..Nevermind..
Still, I'd of totally shit. the closest I've came is having the AKQ of spades in LiR and the dealer flipped over the Jack of spades for the first card, THAT was a "deep breath" moment, LOL. (5th street was a total blank though)