Most Royals in 24 Hours?

[gumshoe]

Last year, at the Orleans, I had 3 in 24 hours, plus AWAK on Triple Double.  It seemed I couldn't do anything wrong that visit.  Haven't come close since.

[ICURN]

I have had 3 in 24 hours a couple times in the past. They were all on different single line machines.My most memorable was getting two royals on the SAME single line machine within 2 hours.

[Frank Kneeland]

You say this expecting that someone will believe you? I'm sure you just lost credibility with more than just me.
 So let me see if I get this straight.Tons of people post about their huge unlikely hits nearly every day on this forum and you are having trouble believing that someone that has been playing daily for a living for over 20 years has had a really good run twice in two decades?I'm not sure it's my credibility that has been compromised.The Deuces were at the Reno Circus Circus on a quarter progressive about 15 years ago. All totaled the Jackpots added up to $1,000.The Royals were at a market across from the Hard Rock hotel about 6 years ago on a progressive that was resetting to $1,500. The total JP amount that day was close to $10,000. Good, but far less than most have done on a single RF.Neither of these results were anything special from a monetary profit POV, but they were rather unlikely events I thought worth sharing, since everyone else was sharing their "most jackpots in a day" stories.I hope you believe me when I tell you this; I had no idea anyone would have trouble believing me. In the circles I travel, stories like this are common place, and I have far fewer of them to tell than most of the pros I know.Anyway, I do sincerely appreciate you bringing it to my attention that such stories could be questioned for their veracity. It really hadn't occurred to me. I now have a long mental list of other pro stories that I'll keep to myself, because they are likely even less believable. Sadly, most of them happened to other people.Compliments are always nice, but oddly, criticism often teaches us more.Oh, you asked, "Were those 6 royals in one hour on the machine your left hand was working, or right?"I'm afraid my brain doesn't work like that, so I can't answer the question.  When I play two machines I think of it as one.  The results are blurred together in my mind.There's a lot I don't remember. Since I only do yearly records, I have very few memories of "bad days" and "good days". A guy in a casino asked me once how I was doing that day, and I couldn't answer because I didn't know without going through a bunch a records and calling my 3 partners.Later, I realized his question had only been, "how are you personally doing on this particular machine since you sat down?" You can't imagine how differently pros think from recreational players. It's not close.Also, I don't remember suit at all. If you asked me what the suit was for a RF I had on-screen while you were asking, I'd have to look to see for myself.Take care, I hope you have some super stories of your own to share.~FK

[backsider]

Frank please remember, you're talking to mostly regular Joe's here, and as someone who wouldn't know what to think of my life if I spent 6+ hours at a gaming machine every day, all i can do is read about the feats of others for most of my kicks. I wasn't kidding when I said I get one royal per 6 months at very best. This statement identifies the jist of what I'm trying to say: Tons of people post about their huge unlikely hits nearly every day on this forum and you are having trouble believing that someone that has been playing daily for a living for over 20 years has had a really good run twice in two decades? That's just it. i've been reading these things for years as have many. Those tons of people who post about their good fortune here alone represent a healthy chunk of play and they're fun reading about. if you add in vpfree and others you see lifetimes worth of big hits. They do go back in time as you have. Cumulatively far far far more than what you've played.  In comes Frank, with two stories so far beyond that of any other player who's ever felt like sharing. A little overwhelming don't you think? If and when i hit my next royal it'll now feel like nothing special happened. I've read so many times for so many years of how good players are stopped, how machines that are paying too much are stopped and so on, and i can't guess why but it hasn't happened to you in your most incredible moments of rapture at these machines. Add in that you sell a $30 book and it does try to turn a fan into a skeptic.    

[onemoretry]

Last October, I had a session where I hit 7 royals in about an hour and a half.
 
Granted, that result was not on single line, and includes a dealt royal on a 5 line machine, but 7 royals is 7 royals.
 
The first, playing 5 line, was on a two card draw to three high hearts.
 
The next 5, still playing 5 line,  was a dealt royal in diamonds.
 
I switched to 10 line, then, and hit a royal on a three card draw to two high spades.
 
After all that, still playing 10 line, I could hardly believe it when I was dealt four to the royal in clubs.  However, I whiffed on that one.
 
Unfortunately, that tendency to whiff on a one card draw for a royal has dogged me ever since ( I am a measly one for about 150 attempts since then). 

[royal flush]

nice 7 royals

[New2vp]

You say this expecting that someone will believe you?In comes Frank, with two stories so far beyond that of any other player who's ever felt like sharing. A little overwhelming don't you think? If and when i hit my next royal it'll now feel like nothing special happened. I've read so many times for so many years of how good players are stopped, how machines that are paying too much are stopped and so on, and i can't guess why but it hasn't happened to you in your most incredible moments of rapture at these machines. Add in that you sell a $30 book and it does try to turn a fan into a skeptic.Hey, when comparing a whole list of unlikely outcomes, someone has to have the best story, don't they?  Most all of these stories are more about incredible luck than incredible skill, so it's unclear to me if there is any harm if any of the stories are untrue.I certainly would be more likely to buy a book from someone who I surmised to be incredibly skillful than incredibly lucky, since I might be able to learn to be more skillful but I doubt if I could learn to be luckier.I've got no great video poker story, but perhaps I can relate an anecdote in another game. I'm a little better than a bogey golfer, a relatively short hitter for my handicap level and I've had perhaps three dozen eagles in my lifetime play.  However, I once had two eagles in four holes in league play...and on that golf course over a 15-year period, I have eagled four of out of the first six holes even though I have never eagled more than two holes on any other golf course.  Only one of the four holes was a par 5 (for non-golfers, these holes are relatively easier to eagle), so the other eagles were incredibly lucky shots which included holing a 9-iron, a full wedge, and a 7-iron (nice shots, but an unbelievable amount of luck for the shot to go in).  Of course, you don't know me or my propensity for exaggeration, so you don't know whether or not this story is true...but it is.I don't know whether the math says that my luck on this course was better than Frank's was on vp machines or not.  But I'm guessing that you wouldn't buy a book on golf from me on the strength of me telling a story (true or not) about my runs of luck on either 4 or 6 holes.And I can't imagine that Frank thinks people will buy more of his books simply because he had a great hour (or a great 6-hand run) once in his life.Heck, even if it's not true, it's more interesting reading posts like those, than having people not post because they are afraid that others will post that they may be fibbing now and then.

[backsider]

Last October, I had a session where I hit 7 royals in about an hour and a half.
 
Granted, that result was not on single line, and includes a dealt royal on a 5 line machine, but 7 royals is 7 royals.
 
The first, playing 5 line, was on a two card draw to three high hearts.
 
The next 5, still playing 5 line,  was a dealt royal in diamonds.
 
I switched to 10 line, then, and hit a royal on a three card draw to two high spades.
 
After all that, still playing 10 line, I could hardly believe it when I was dealt four to the royal in clubs.  However, I whiffed on that one.
 
Unfortunately, that tendency to whiff on a one card draw for a royal has dogged me ever since ( I am a measly one for about 150 attempts since then). 
 Now THAT'S an experience i can believe, and what a day it must have been!   New2vp, that's a great golf story, i have a few myself.  Six RF's in an hour on a single line game gets me twitching, but quad 2's in five out of six hands? I'd like to see the odds on either one of those.

[Frank Kneeland]

To backsider. I completely agree with everything you said in your last post and you now have me feeling very guilty for chiming in at all.I'll avoid threads like this in the future, thanks entirely to your good advice and counsel.All I can say to apologize, is my stories were not stories of exceptional luck.They were stories bread from the unavoidable consequence of  a life spent button pushing. Do anything enough (too much) and odd things become common.If you don't have similar stories, it only means you are a better man than I.Therefore "Envy" would not be the appropriate emotion, "pity" is a better fit.They say if you left a bunch of chimps in a room with a typewriter long enough, they would by accident write the works of Shakespeare eventually. Well I'm one of the chimps and I think I just finished Hamlet's Soliloquy.I'm off to oppose a sea of troubles.Tell PRO stories only to other PROS. (Check! lesson learned) Cheers,~FK

[Frank Kneeland]

And I can't imagine that Frank thinks people will buy more of his books
simply because he had a great hour (or a great 6-hand run) once in his
life.You are correct. It would never occur to me that a tale of stupid luck would increase sales.For the record: I believe less than 1% of my sales have come from forum posting.The fact that I have a book for sale has nothing to do with my posting. I do it for the exact same reasons you all do and one of my own.Pro gambling is a very lonely profession. It's nice to talk to other people every now and then. I gamble for a living. I post purely for recreation!~FK