Most Mathematically improbable event in casino you have been involved with

Quote: ChampagneFireball

Playing 3-card at Harrah's and almost out of money. Bet remainder and have an extra $5 (if I play) so I put it on on the 6-card $1 million shot. Look at first two cards: four and another four. I play and don't bother looking at next card. Pair is good enough. This is the only time I've bet the 6-card or and only time I've looked at less than my whole hand. I have no chips left.

Dealer has a straight with a 4 in it. I'm bummed, but I win with trips on the 6-card. Dealer turns over my cards, knowing I don't know the last card, and slowly spreads it out. The remaining card is the case 4. I win! 6-card wins!

While getting 3 fours isn't that unlikely, doing it when you need it to beat a straight is, and even more unlikely that you bet the 6-card that hand and get the four fours.

Quote: beachbumbabs

That's a very sweet win. I bet it stands out for you for a long time. The most fun on 3CP is to squeeze, and stop as soon as you have a playable hand. I've gotten some nice jolts off of that, but never one QUITE that good.

Quote: AxiomOfChoice

I like doing that in UTH. Once you see that Ace there's no need to look at the 2nd card; just bet 4x.

Quote: beachbumbabs

That's a very sweet win. I bet it stands out for you for a long time. The most fun on 3CP is to squeeze, and stop as soon as you have a playable hand. I've gotten some nice jolts off of that, but never one QUITE that good.

Quote: beachbumbabs

Yeah, I do that too. Much fun.

Quote: Buzzard

I remember a thread here about somebody not really seeing something because it was so improbable. Well, stuff happens. I remember back when AP was the main source of new about a woman during the Korean war who had a baby on the same exact day he husband was killed in Korea. But that's just the start. She remarried, another military man, she had another baby and on that day her 2nd husband was killed in Vietnam.

But this is my most improbable story. A lumberjack ( really ) in the Northwest bought a $1 ticket and won $100,000 in a Canadaian lottery. A bit of money in the 1970's. He bought a farm and decided to buy a race horse. Put aside $15,000 and then had to go partners to buy a horse for $17,500. Didn't get much of a race horse for that price, even then.

But the horse had a front leg that bent slightly outwards. Could not afford a fancy trainer, so he got a guy who was training steeple chase horses mostly. Damn horse was so clumsy the trainer nicknamed him Baby Huey. Now just getting a horse to the race track is a long shot, let alone winning a race. This horse won first time out. I will skip ahead to the Kentucky Derby.

Very few horses get to that race. Well, Baby Huey, lived up to his name. Banged his head against the starting gate hard enough to start bleeding from the mouth. Still bleeding when he crossed the finish line 1st. Of course he goes on to win the Triple Crown. Something only 11 horses have ever done.

But add a few more zero's to the odds of this happening as he is the only horse to have done it undefeated.

Yes, it's SEATTLE SLEW

But not all fairy tales have a happy ending. His son SWALE won the Belmont and died before the year was out.

He had a daughter named Landaluce. She was voted American Champion Filly in 1982 POSTHUMOUSLY.

Quote: ChampagneFireball

Playing 3-card at Harrah's and almost out of money. Bet remainder and have an extra $5 (if I play) so I put it on on the 6-card $1 million shot. Look at first two cards: four and another four. I play and don't bother looking at next card. Pair is good enough. This is the only time I've bet the 6-card or and only time I've looked at less than my whole hand. I have no chips left.

Dealer has a straight with a 4 in it. I'm bummed, but I win with trips on the 6-card. Dealer turns over my cards, knowing I don't know the last card, and slowly spreads it out. The remaining card is the case 4. I win! 6-card wins!

While getting 3 fours isn't that unlikely, doing it when you need it to beat a straight is, and even more unlikely that you bet the 6-card that hand and get the four fours.

Quote: AcesAndEights

Not that I don't believe you Buzz (I know nothing about horse racing), but I find it odd that Seattle Slew's Wikipedia page doesn't mention anything about the clumsiness or Baby Huey nickname.

Quote: djatc

I got a back to back 4oak on video poker, but this probably happens a lot.