Djatc ' s big hands, big...whatever
Quote: GreasyjohnIt looks like the $4,000 was credited to your machine. Wasn't there a W2G involved?
I believe the "jackpot/call attendant" message flashes on & off, so presumably he captured the photo during an "off."
Quote: GreasyjohnIt looks like the $4,000 was credited to your machine. Wasn't there a W2G involved?
There is about a 3 second delay between the two things that appear on the screen ("CALL ATTENDANT" and "JACKPOT! $4,000"). The photo was taken during the 3-second period where the screen looks normal. The proof of this is that none of the buttons (Help, More Games, Deal) are available; the machine was locked up waiting for an attendant to reset it.
Edit: I see someone else beat me to the punch.
Quote: GWAEMission, what are your initial thoughts on Vegas. You had mentioned that you didn't think you would be impressed.
Indeed, if I may, I'm getting ready to leave at the moment, so I'm going to defer that question to my trip report. I'm going to post my trip report tomorrow (Tuesday) night at some point, or early a.m. Wednesday, certainly while it is fresh in my mind.
Quote: djatcJust hit a $47xx royal. Biggest one to date. It was a progressive which was pretty decent, and decided to take a shot. Still looking for the elusive $2 royal.
Congrats. It's always exciting to hit your biggest jackpot. Hopefully the $2 and $5 both come this year for you.
Nice revenge royal. Now you're both over and under royaled.Quote: supermaxhdGot first Royal Flush at HorseShoe Southern Indiana Friday night for $40,000 after about 120,000 tries. I decided to put in $500 to play $10 credits and hit it in the first 10 minutes. I had never played $10 credits before, usually I play $2 or $5 credits.
Quote: supermaxhdGot first Royal Flush at HorseShoe Southern Indiana Friday night for $40,000 after about 120,000 tries. I decided to put in $500 to play $10 credits and hit it in the first 10 minutes. I had never played $10 credits before, usually I play $2 or $5 credits.
NICE!!!
Quote: supermaxhdGot first Royal Flush at HorseShoe Southern Indiana Friday night for $40,000 after about 120,000 tries. I decided to put in $500 to play $10 credits and hit it in the first 10 minutes. I had never played $10 credits before, usually I play $2 or $5 credits.
That's the way to do it...hit royals for as high of denomination as possible. Congrats!
Unfortunately I do the opposite. :-\
#sourgrapes.
Seriously, congrats!
Quote: supermaxhdI can finally relax. Oh, and I just realized what a 'dealt royal' meant. It was not a dealt royal. I had 4 to a flush and held the three to make a Royal possible.
That makes it even more exciting! Obviously you hope you'll get it but you almost never do when holding just 3 cards to the royal.
Congrats!
Quote: djatcGot a redraw royal AQKTJ of diamonds. Life is good.
How much? Pic? And You've got two of these redraw royals while I haven't got any royal in 20 months? And missed 9 penny 4 to a royal draws on Thursday. Ugh, I hate life.
Quote: supermaxhdGot first Royal Flush at HorseShoe Southern Indiana Friday night for $40,000 after about 120,000 tries. I decided to put in $500 to play $10 credits and hit it in the first 10 minutes. I had never played $10 credits before, usually I play $2 or $5 credits.
That's great, supermax! Must've been quite a rush.
Your private messages from curmudgeons relishing your bad luck should cease for a little while.Quote: djatcGot a redraw royal AQKTJ of diamonds. Life is good.
Quote: tringlomaneHow much? Pic? And You've got two of these redraw royals while I haven't got any royal in 20 months? And missed 9 penny 4 to a royal draws on Thursday. Ugh, I hate life.
Sorry forgot to take a pic but it was totally unexpected. Turns out some lady that was sitting in front of me on another bank hit a progressive for $11xx as well. I don't know how much you play tring, but I've coined in at least $300k this year, just on quarters. I don't even keep track of the other types of games I play, all I know is everything is +EV and I prefer my actual win and EV to be very close to the same, so I don't get too crazy betting over my head.
Quote: onenickelmiracleYour private messages from curmudgeons relishing your bad luck should cease for a little while.
Hey I take the good with the bad. If people wanna enjoy my bad fortune then so be it, it'll get me down for a minute and I'm back out there in the field.
Quote: djatcI don't know how much you play tring, but I've coined in at least $300k this year, just on quarters. I don't even keep track of the other types of games I play, all I know is everything is +EV and I prefer my actual win and EV to be very close to the same, so I don't get too crazy betting over my head.
Not nearly that much of course. But the average coin-in for a quarter player with 2 redraw royals is closer to $37.5 million, so yeah, I'm pretty jealous. I have got redraw deuces on deuces wild back in 2012, but it was only nickels for $50...meh. I have never even got deuces for quarters on deuces wild. I doubt I've played more than 2 cycles of that game for quarters lifetime though. It's not the best game around here usually. In St. Louis the best deuces game is 99.45% Bonus Deuces and both places that offer it also offer 9/6 JoB.
As for the royalless streak, I'm not sure, because I'm too drunk/hop around too much to keep strict hand count, but at least I am one cycle in, and some chance of 2 cycles. I have 128 photographed quads since my last royal in Sep. 2012 for a whopping $80, so if I would be lucky enough to hit one every 400 hands on average, that 51,200 hands. And I don't photo all of them, especially in the first few months of my drought... :-\ I probably have hit at least 150 quads since my royal, maybe more. My count list is definitely biased toward aces and deuces. It could be worse, but from a time perspective it definitely seems to have dragged on forever. And since I got my new phone on Sept. 14, 2013, about 66 of the last 282 days I have some portion of the day in a casino. :-\ I wouldn't be shocked the year before that was about 20% as well. But I never play VP all day on any of those days...nor terribly fast, but I assume with my quad count, it's added up a bit. :-\
Definitely not had bad enough luck to claim anything ridiculous like it's rigged (see videopoker.com), just getting a bit frustrated. Hell, took me 10 years just to get my first VP royal for pennies and a whopping $40, fml. I probably hit it between 1 or 2 royal cycles again the first time. But I played a decent chunk of single line quarters from 2001-2006, so $40 was just a drop in the bucket. :-\ Never hit a Royal in my home state either where a gigantic chunk of those quarter hands were...lol They were hit at Blue Chip (Indiana at pennies), Flamingo (Vegas at pennies 6X dealt), Tunica Roadhouse (Tunica, MS at 2 cents). I hope to God my next royal is at least nickels (preferably quarters or more with Ult X vulturing). I missed 9 4 to a Royals on pennies on Thursday. Part of me thought I might hit it for a $56 wacky royal, so I couldn't complain about my "luck" anymore.
Quote: GWAEHere is a bovada win.
Very nice!
Now, truthfully, how long did you ponder whether to try double or nothing?
Quote: NareedVery nice!
Now, truthfully, how long did you ponder whether to try double or nothing?
haha funny. This is how the conversation went with myself.
inner me: do you have the balls to double.
me: F no
inner me: come on... do it.
me: F no
then I took about 15 seconds to make sure the mouse didn't have lag and when I click take it wouldn't actually be on double.
Quote: tringlomane
As for the royalless streak, I'm not sure, because I'm too drunk/hop around too much to keep strict hand count, but at least I am one cycle in, and some chance of 2 cycles. I have 128 photographed quads since my last royal in Sep. 2012 for a whopping $80, so if I would be lucky enough to hit one every 400 hands on average, that 51,200 hands. And I don't photo all of them, especially in the first few months of my drought... :-\ I probably have hit at least 150 quads since my royal, maybe more. My count list is definitely biased toward aces and deuces.
Although it may feel like a long bad streak, it does sound like you are between one and two cycles. I base my estimate on averaging about 110 quads for every royal.
Hopefully today will be the end of this streak and the start of a royal a day streak.
Quote: GWAEhaha funny. This is how the conversation went with myself.
I get nervous doubling on trips playing nickels JoB.
Quote: NareedI get nervous doubling on trips playing nickels JoB.
DAMN almost had another one. Dealt TJQK2 of clubs. threw away the 2 and got a 9 of clubs for straight flush.
Quote: DRichAlthough it may feel like a long bad streak, it does sound like you are between one and two cycles. I base my estimate on averaging about 110 quads for every royal.
Hopefully today will be the end of this streak and the start of a royal a day streak.
Yeah, I knew it's likely between one and two cycles (which obv happens a decent amount), but I play so sporadically in casinos that it seems like forever that I've hit it and it just drags on. I definitely have been more cognizant of it since my last trip to Vegas. Bad habit of focusing on the time frame, which is wrong to do.
Quote: GWAEHere is a bovada win.
Sick that they offer you the double on things like that! Nice hit!
Quote: progrockerI got a dealt royal a couple of weeks ago as well, nearly fell out of my chair:
I'm still jealous the first time I saw this. :P Nice hit!
tring: I measure my royal streak by scares. Usually it is very simple to put into my phone as I'm playing to keep track. My shortest was 3 scares, and longest was 120 or so. I try to count multi-play if feasible such as 3 or 5 play but on 50 or 100 play I just don't even add it unless it's on the base hand.
Quote: djatc
tring: I measure my royal streak by scares. Usually it is very simple to put into my phone as I'm playing to keep track. My shortest was 3 scares, and longest was 120 or so. I try to count multi-play if feasible such as 3 or 5 play but on 50 or 100 play I just don't even add it unless it's on the base hand.
By "scare" you mean finishing with a four to a royal finish? For as many royals you've definitely hit by now, I would love my worst streak to be less than 1.5 "scare" cycles. The "scare" cycle for 9/6 JoB is 88.33.
Lately I have been taking pics of these too, on my new phone anyway, but I don't always take it, especially since some of the holds never make the royal. Since Sept. 2013, I've snapped 37 of them on my phone.
Also got a royal after I dumped all 5 cards at the ParisLV last month. I really fell out of my chair then.
Quote: rsactuaryNot sure how to post pics.. new to the forum.... can anyone offer some help on how I post a pic that's on my C:\ drive? (tried looking in formatting codes and that didn't seem to help me)
You need to upload the pics somewhere - for example, imgur.com - and then use the URL for where you uploaded them. (If you use imgur, the site will tell you what URL to use.)
I finally hit a royal, and it was dealt! I know, I know, what was I doing playing that $#!+ty paytable?
Quote: CrystalMath
I finally hit a royal, and it was dealt! I know, I know, what was I doing playing that $#!+ty paytable?
Ah, yes. Good old 7/5 Jacks. 96%'er.
On the flop, wow.
Looks like Monte Carlo.
Lucky you. I am so determined to hit a Royal in Vegas.
I have never ever hit one in Vegas ever and I play lot of VP.
Hit it once in my life, Biloxi.
Will be Vegas in 2 weeks, plan on playing a lot of VP downtown, I'm due dammit.
Quote: terapined
Looks like Monte Carlo.
Helps explain the paytable. Lol. That casino has no good gambling left. Nice hit though Crystal!
6/5 (or 7/5) Bonus is my general suggestion vs. 7/5 JoB there and nearly everywhere on the Vegas strip. 6/5 Bonus (w/STP) is the variant I hit my Vegas dealt royal at Flamingo, too bad it was only for 6 lines of pennies. Meh.
I'm still waiting on a spade royal too.
Quote: OmahaNever understood the value of playing video poker in casinos. The illegal ones that they have in local bars allow you to raise up to double your bet before the discard/draw. I seem to win about half the time or more on these machines. I havent seen anything like that in casinos.
Probably they don't use a randomly dealt deck.
Quote: bwProbably they don't use a randomly dealt deck.
More like an "equally probable deck". But Vegas casinos typically don't offer games like that because rules/payouts would have to be adjusted so much with a random, equally probable deck. In the end VP machines need to still be below 100% return (most of the time) for casino to want to offer them.
