How the wrong hold pays off nicely

[roveer]

This is a story about holding the wrong cards and getting rewarded with a Royal. On Sunday I was finishing up a visit to Harrah's AC and having played a LOT of video poker in a monster 16 hour marathon, was presented with QJA suited, another Q and another low card.  I looked at it for a second, held the pair of queens, then looked at it again.  This play is fuzzy in my muscle memory.  I don't see it often.  I decided, what the hell, it's 60 bucks.  I've been donking off 60 dollar hands for the past 16 hours.  I held the suited 3 to a royal and whamo got it to hit.  when I got home on Sunday I ran it though my trainer and it in fact said I should have held the queens.  I also ran it about 10 times through the trainer and didn't see a single royals.  That's 100 hands on 10 play.  Guess it was just my time. So, when you hear me pontificating in other posts (like I did recently) about not following hunches, remember that sometimes we all break the rules.  This time is gained me 4 grand. Roveer 

[Tedlark]

I too would have played that hunch roveer, nice hit.
 
Ted

[roveer]

I too would have played that hunch roveer, nice hit.
 
Ted
 Funny, the minute I figured out what I was looking at, I knew it would be something that I'd be posting here. Roveer 

[Tedlark]

  I just played the exact hand on Ultimate X that you did and I was gifted with a 40,000 credit royal.

[Lucky Larry]

roveer,
When a hunch is strong go with it!

While memory is selective many of our strongest hunches have led to our biggest hits. Sometimes it is a feeling to play a specific machine other times the hunch may urge to move to another game. My last Royal was off a hunch to play Dbl Dbl as my first game instead of NSUD. I only play Dbl Dbl about 5-10% of the time and never first instead of NSUD (85% of the time). Another time the 3/5 machine I usually play was set to Super Aces and a feeling came across me to start with SA. The first hand was dealt Aces on 3 hands.

[Vman96]

I play the queens every time (obviously). Nice hit though!