I took a break from BJ and got my first royal flush!!
Quote: BigJerCouldn't believe it! Had a J through A of clubs. Held on to those and waited for a 3 of diamonds or the like. Got the 10 of clubs! I was shocked not because of the money but the chances of pulling it off.
I know it is exciting to hit your first royal (and congrats on that btw). Until you hit your first, you begin to think a royal is actually a mythical thing like a unicorn. Lol. BUT, holding the Jack through Ace and only needing the 10, means you have a 1 in 47 chance, no? That's 2%.....that's pretty decent odds. What is really shocking is when you hold 1 or 2 cards and draw the royal. That's the longshot. But any royal is a pleasant surprise.
Quote: kewljI know it is exciting to hit your first royal (and congrats on that btw). Until you hit your first, you begin to think a royal is actually a mythical thing like a unicorn. Lol. BUT, holding the Jack through Ace and only needing the 10, means you have a 1 in 47 chance, no? That's 2%.....that's pretty decent odds. What is really shocking is when you hold 1 or 2 cards and draw the royal. That's the longshot. But any royal is a pleasant surprise.
Actually I meant getting the Royal Flush.
Quote: kewljI know it is exciting to hit your first royal (and congrats on that btw). Until you hit your first, you begin to think a royal is actually a mythical thing like a unicorn. Lol. BUT, holding the Jack through Ace and only needing the 10, means you have a 1 in 47 chance, no? That's 2%.....that's pretty decent odds. What is really shocking is when you hold 1 or 2 cards and draw the royal. That's the longshot. But any royal is a pleasant surprise.
That makes me laugh, I don't play a ton of VP, admittedly not nearly how much some others do here, but still a fair amount and am still looking for my first. Unicorn indeed!
Quote: djatcA royal is starting to be an unicorn bigfoot dice influencer when you go cycles without it. Luckily I only went 2.5 cycles. Congrats BigJer, welcome to the ever elusive chase for a royal on a video poker machine now :)
This is why I play 9/7 TDB. Much shorter cycles. Of course I still don't hit any top-line pays so the end result is just that I lose faster. But it's a good idea in theory.
Quote: kewljI know it is exciting to hit your first royal (and congrats on that btw). Until you hit your first, you begin to think a royal is actually a mythical thing like a unicorn. Lol. BUT, holding the Jack through Ace and only needing the 10, means you have a 1 in 47 chance, no? That's 2%.....that's pretty decent odds. What is really shocking is when you hold 1 or 2 cards and draw the royal. That's the longshot. But any royal is a pleasant surprise.
When I first started playing VP it took me nearly 200k hands before I hit one. I swore that people lied that they actually existed. After I hit my first I hit 2 more within 90 days.
Quote: GWAEWhen I first started playing VP it took me nearly 200k hands before I hit one. I swore that people lied that they actually existed. After I hit my first I hit 2 more within 90 days.
Clearly the universe is rigged
I do encourage guys like DJ to count them, I don't know why.
Quote: AxelWolfI used to count Royal scares but once 4 play showed up, I said F it. It wont help me to count hands or scares in between Royals, it's just an extra task I have to mess with. I don't even bother counting Royals anymore(unless I want to know for a particular play) I know it will all work out in the end, if not, counting wont help anyways.
I do encourage guys like DJ to count them, I don't know why.
I have no clue how many I have hit lifetime, but I did manage 7 of them on Saturday while playing 100 play. I had 4 to the royal dealt once and got only one royal out of those 100 hands.
Quote: AxelWolfI used to count Royal scares but once 4 play showed up, I said F it. It wont help me to count hands or scares in between Royals, it's just an extra task I have to mess with. I don't even bother counting Royals anymore(unless I want to know for a particular play) I know it will all work out in the end, if not, counting wont help anyways.
I do encourage guys like DJ to count them, I don't know why.
I don't count them, but I do remember a couple of my close calls.
Once I was playing $25 single-hand -- just "taking a shot" at a higher denom than I usually play. Got dealt 4 to a royal -- drew a flush. Not quite the same as $100k. That was on my birthday too.
Once I was playing $5 spin poker. I think I was playing 5 lines, but maybe only 3 (I don't remember). Got dealt 10cJsKsQsAs (right color, wrong suit...) So I drew and got 3 small red cards. Not a flush, not a straight, not even a pair -- total brick.
Quote: AxiomOfChoiceI don't count them, but I do remember a couple of my close calls.
Once I was playing $25 single-hand -- just "taking a shot" at a higher denom than I usually play. Got dealt 4 to a royal -- drew a flush. Not quite the same as $100k. That was on my birthday too.
Once I was playing $5 spin poker. I think I was playing 5 lines, but maybe only 3 (I don't remember). Got dealt 10cJsKsQsAs (right color, wrong suit...) So I drew and got 3 small red cards. Not a flush, not a straight, not even a pair -- total brick.
I was playing that game ($1, 9 lines), got 3 to a royal, and drew to a "royal". Unfortunately the royal cards were not all on the same line. :( :( Initially excited, then got pissed off when the machine didn't start singing to me!!! >:(
Royals are very unicorny. Go a year without hitting one, then hit two in one night.
Quote: AlanMendelsonMost frustrating sight in the world: elderly couple at 100 line machine playing one-cent on one line and they were dealt a royal.
I don't play 100-line. What's that figure out to be? $2.50? Less?
Quote: AlanMendelsonMost frustrating sight in the world: elderly couple at 100 line machine playing one-cent on one line and they were dealt a royal.
Meh. I don't always play all the available hands/lines. Often, the 50- or 100-hand game will have better paytables than the single-hand game at the same denom.
I do, however, hate when, in spin poker, you get a premium hand on an unplayed line.
Quote: DeucekiesI don't play 100-line. What's that figure out to be? $2.50? Less?
Yes. $2.50 and they were whooping it up like they just hit the lottery.
Years ago I played a 50-line game at Mandalay Bay with nickels, $12.50 bet, and was dealt a royal for $10,000.
they were on a 100-line game.
at 1-cent per line, all 100 lines, it would have been more than their Medicare Part B deductible. A lot more.
This was at Rincon, by the way, where you will often find the 100-line machines tied up with players playing one line for a penny.
