Dealt Royals to Nowhere
Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 10:44 am
Dealt Royals are always a nice surprise. And one would never toss one back, particularly in a casino.
In contests on this website, my experience with them has been bittersweet. I have had at least four dealt royals that have not even sniffed the lead in contests on this site, with the latest being today's after maybe a 4-year drought. Today's Daily Contest is 25-play Super Times Pay and the dealt royal I received today was the highest number of hands on which I have received a dealt royal: JATQK in diamonds. It is good for only 46th at the time of my writing this and may likely fall out of the top 100 before the day is out. As you have surmised, there obviously was no multiplier. What was a little worse was that this dealt royal was not AUTOHELD, since I was playing the Atlantic City version of Joker Wild**. So instead of scoring 25 x 4000, my take was "only" 25 x 500. I scored 8870 on the other 49 hands, and the current leader has 105,855; so my score with a 100,000 hit instead of 12,500 would have been a current leading 108,870. I'm guessing that neither of those scores will hold/would have held before the day is through.
In reminiscing about the other dealt royals that I've had in contests, I am not counting the ones in Dream Poker and Magic Deal as the bonus cards allow relatively frequent chances at those.
Not counting those games the other dealt royals that I have had in contests were:
(1) First hand at 10-play Ultimate X*. What "first hand" means is that there were no chances at multipliers, so this was never close to the lead;
(2) Single Hand in a Monthly Contest. Of course these count no more than any other run-of-the-mill drawn royals, which are lots more frequent;
(3) Five Play in a Wheel with Quick Quads contest where dealt royals are less valuable than dealt Quad Aces with Kickers, which get 5 bonus wheel spins.
*Today's dealt royal was on the 2nd hand of the contest, following directly after a first hand dealt flush. In Ultimate X, a dealt flush would yield some nice multipliers for the NEXT HAND.
**I think I recall faygo posting at least one dealt royal on this game, maybe in a casino. I know he won a couple of contests, probably playing this game, which was his favorite, so I'll dedicate this thread to his memory. Hope you are enjoying a beer or a nice soft drink somewhere today.
In contests on this website, my experience with them has been bittersweet. I have had at least four dealt royals that have not even sniffed the lead in contests on this site, with the latest being today's after maybe a 4-year drought. Today's Daily Contest is 25-play Super Times Pay and the dealt royal I received today was the highest number of hands on which I have received a dealt royal: JATQK in diamonds. It is good for only 46th at the time of my writing this and may likely fall out of the top 100 before the day is out. As you have surmised, there obviously was no multiplier. What was a little worse was that this dealt royal was not AUTOHELD, since I was playing the Atlantic City version of Joker Wild**. So instead of scoring 25 x 4000, my take was "only" 25 x 500. I scored 8870 on the other 49 hands, and the current leader has 105,855; so my score with a 100,000 hit instead of 12,500 would have been a current leading 108,870. I'm guessing that neither of those scores will hold/would have held before the day is through.
In reminiscing about the other dealt royals that I've had in contests, I am not counting the ones in Dream Poker and Magic Deal as the bonus cards allow relatively frequent chances at those.
Not counting those games the other dealt royals that I have had in contests were:
(1) First hand at 10-play Ultimate X*. What "first hand" means is that there were no chances at multipliers, so this was never close to the lead;
(2) Single Hand in a Monthly Contest. Of course these count no more than any other run-of-the-mill drawn royals, which are lots more frequent;
(3) Five Play in a Wheel with Quick Quads contest where dealt royals are less valuable than dealt Quad Aces with Kickers, which get 5 bonus wheel spins.
*Today's dealt royal was on the 2nd hand of the contest, following directly after a first hand dealt flush. In Ultimate X, a dealt flush would yield some nice multipliers for the NEXT HAND.
**I think I recall faygo posting at least one dealt royal on this game, maybe in a casino. I know he won a couple of contests, probably playing this game, which was his favorite, so I'll dedicate this thread to his memory. Hope you are enjoying a beer or a nice soft drink somewhere today.