your favorite video poker memory?

Did you hit any jackpots? Did you get a great comp? We all want to know!
olds442jetaway
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Re: your favorite video poker memory?

Post by olds442jetaway »

Maybe a quick trip just for dinner Friday with the Mrs and some free play use or lose.

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Post by mightwin »

Valentines Day while living in Las Vegas. I had just eaten my comp dinner at Mandalay Bay and had started playing $1 poker on my freeplay. Won $800, don't remember the hand. Scooted down to the end seat. Put money into the machine, hit max bet and was trying to light a ciggarette when I hear the jackpot song. Was wondering where it was coming from. I saw an attendant running towards where I was sitting - and before she got there looked at my screen. DEALT ROYAL. I had never seen one in real life before and it happened to me. Amazing.

A few months later on a quarter machine got another dealt royal at Green Valley Ranch. They really do exist.

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Post by FAA »

Tell me about it. I was dealt the RF after throwing away my hand seven months ago. The day was not going too well. Unfortunately, I was not max betting.

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Post by SaraTG »

Well since you wanted good or bad I'll share one that's both.

So there I was at the old Charlestown Races and Slots (Before Hollywood Casino took it over) playing my favorite Triple Ace Poker game.. I had just arrived and put in my usual $200 to start. I always put $200 in right off the bat to save putting in $20 after $20 or whatever. Anyway before they changed the software on these machines the max bet was 20 credits at 25 cents a credit. At the time it paid 4500 credits for a straight flush on a 20 bet. $1125 which kept you under the taxable limit.So I was there only 10-15 minutes and hit a straight flush. Now I'm like $1200 up after just 15 minutes! Cool I figure, I drove 90 minutes to get here I can't leave now and I'm way up I'll keep playing. So to make a loooong story shorter...Now here it is 9 hours later. I had lost back the $1200 I won PLUS another $1000 of my own money! By this point I'm in a daze after playing non-stop for 9 hours with only time off to wander from one bank of machines with that game to the other on the opposite side of the casino. My head is buzzing from the non-stop machine sounds all around me and my vision is blurring from staring at video poker screens for 9 hours. I wander across the casino to the one row of machines nearest the garage and put in a $100 bill and start up again. I'm in a state of shock and cursing myself for being stupid and greedy after being up $1200 and now I'm $1100 in the hole. So in effect I have $2300 less than I could have had. I keep pushing the buttons and finally get dealt the 4-5-6-8 of spades and a queen or something. I beg the poker Gods to have pity on me and press the "draw" button and there it was..... 7 of spades!!! I hit the straight flush! I've never done a powerful drug but I assume the feeling must be something like what I felt at that moment. I went from $1100 down to $50 up in a split second. OMG I was so happy! I cashed out and staggered out of there with my head ringing and my $50 profit which would pay for my gas,tolls and breakfast (Never had lunch or dinner). When I left the casino it was now dark out. I had been there 10 hours total.

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Post by Quisper »

Dealt aces with a kicker on DDB playing $5 for a $10,000 jackpot.

Was totally out of money and needed to leave but instead I withdrew $100 from the ATM to give it a "final shot." Very first hand after sitting back down was the dealt $10K. Got a check for $9K, tipped nicely, pocketed some cash, and fled the casino!

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Post by MORRDT »

I'm fairly new to playing video poker, and I have not been playing for high stakes (most $1.25 a hand), so hitting four 2s with a kicker at Paris Casino Las Vegas has to be the highlight of my brief video poker career. I'm headed to Biloxi this weekend, maybe I can make some new memories.

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Post by Tedlark »

MORRDT wrote:
Thu Nov 04, 2021 12:33 pm
I'm fairly new to playing video poker, and I have not been playing for high stakes (most $1.25 a hand), so hitting four 2s with a kicker at Paris Casino Las Vegas has to be the highlight of my brief video poker career. I'm headed to Biloxi this weekend, maybe I can make some new memories.
Best of luck to you in Biloxi.

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Post by RDOlivaw »

Tedlark wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 4:19 pm
Not mine, but someone got a nice memory over this past Labor Day weekend at Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.cosmo. jackpot-1.jpg
I didn't believe it was real at first, but it is: https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/ ... t-2434818/

That's a great hit, but that's an expensive and possibly annoying game to play - $1250 a deal is a bit too much for me, and any dealt made hand - even just a pair of jacks - is an automatic hand pay!

As for my favourite video poker memory, it's a toss up - either the dealt royal at a $.50 triple play machine for a $6k hit, or ....

I was playing 1$ Triple Action Poker, where the paytable is tripled up for 9 hands after you hit 3 or 4 threes. I hit a regular royal in spades for $4k, and was playing off the remaining money in the machine after getting paid out when I got 3 threes to start the tripled up paytable. On the last hand of the triple pay, I got dealt 4 to the royal in spades again - it would have been $12k if it paid out, but alas I didn't catch the card I needed.

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Post by New2vp »

RDOlivaw wrote:
Fri Nov 12, 2021 11:40 pm
Tedlark wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 4:19 pm
Not mine, but someone got a nice memory over this past Labor Day weekend at Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.cosmo. jackpot-1.jpg
I didn't believe it was real at first, but it is: https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/ ... t-2434818/

That's a great hit, but that's an expensive and possibly annoying game to play - $1250 a deal is a bit too much for me, and any dealt made hand - even just a pair of jacks - is an automatic hand pay!

As for my favourite video poker memory, it's a toss up - either the dealt royal at a $.50 triple play machine for a $6k hit, or ....

I was playing 1$ Triple Action Poker, where the paytable is tripled up for 9 hands after you hit 3 or 4 threes. I hit a regular royal in spades for $4k, and was playing off the remaining money in the machine after getting paid out when I got 3 threes to start the tripled up paytable. On the last hand of the triple pay, I got dealt 4 to the royal in spades again - it would have been $12k if it paid out, but alas I didn't catch the card I needed.
Just curious. When you play that game, if you are already in triple mode and hit trip or quad 3s again, would you get 9 more hands at triple the pay schedule? Is there any limit to the number of hands that you can get consecutively?

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