Royal Flush

[pokeherguy]

That's true in a lot of cases but not in mine, I really played $2 DDB at max for 10 years there and never hit a single royal flush and I only saw one hit in all those years at the $2 denom. I hit all the quads like crazy and my W2G's stacked up pretty good each year anywhere from $69K-$86K per year, I never came out ahead but I really never lost a lot in any of those years. Ever since Harrah's opened back up after the flood it's been a crazy bad place to play and that includes the slots, the casino is deader than a doornail. I held out as long as I could trying to play thru what I thought was just a run of bad luck but it never ended so I pretty much divorced them.

[Lucky Larry]

first off, congrats on your RF win!! Secondly, all you people who have played at these "bone dry" casinos, where you go years and years from hitting a RF, dont you ever begin to suspect that maybe, jusssssst maybe, they have them set to almost (ALMOST) never give a RF?   By set I mean programmed or "rigged" (semantics, take your pick.)   You are apprently able to hit quads ok like someone said, but not RFs. See, this is the exact manner I would suspect a place of rigging its machines, by excluding a specific type of result, not a all results or a whole range of results.   We've all encountered such machines, ones that never seem to hit a quad but do deal everything else, even an occasional RF.   And vice versa, plenty of quads but no RF.....and it goes on for years! Come on, devils advocate here, whats the deal with these places down south?  Or elsewhere?

LUCK, Number of Hands Played and LUCK again are the variables in RF!

LUCK
* 2008 two 3 day trips to Vegas Red Rock - one RF each trip
* Jan. 2011 Lake Charles Sweet C and I both hit RF on same bank of Progressive within 30 minutes of each other
* June 2011 Downstream OK - Sweet C and I both RF within an hour in only 2 nights of play.
* 4 Cruises - I've hit 2 RF
* 2 Dealt RF within 24 days!

Frequency/Number of Hands Played
* 90/100 RF in Lake Charles - southern casinos but we play 2-3 times a month for hours and hours.

[Lucky Larry]

Ladycuffs,
Great hit and welcome to the forum.

[BillyJoe]

The Mrs hit an RF last night @ Hammond Horseshoe while showing her 83 year old mother how to play VP. Her mother still didn't understand. Maybe I should get her Bob Dancer's book for Christmas ?
Yes - they are out there... The RFs and the 83 year old mothers.

[jazzman12]

Also need to factor in if a person normally plays single line VP or high multiple line VP.You are 100X as likely to draw a RF every time you are dealt 3-to-a-royal if you playing 100 line VP as supposed to single line.Your odds are the same on each given hand, but you will end the year with a lot more total royals (not necessarily more winning sessions) by playing 50 line or 100 line VP regularly.

[BillyJoe]

Also need to factor in if a person normally plays single line VP or high multiple line VP.

You are 100X as likely to draw a RF every time you are dealt 3-to-a-royal if you playing 100 line VP as supposed to single line.

Your odds are the same on each given hand, but you will end the year with a lot more total royals (not necessarily more winning sessions) by playing 50 line or 100 line VP regularly.

Ain't no 50 or 100 line VP for the Mrs (better not be ) - she plays $1 denom, max bet.

[faygo]

[QUOTE=jazzman12]Also need to factor in if a person normally plays single line VP or high multiple line VP.You are 100X as likely to draw a RF every time you are dealt 3-to-a-royal if you playing 100 line VP as supposed to single line.Your odds are the same on each given hand, but you will end the year with a lot more total royals (not necessarily more winning sessions) by playing 50 line or 100 line VP regularly.
Ain't no 50 or 100 line VP for the Mrs (better not be ) - she plays $1 denom, max bet. [/QUOTE]
 TIGHTWAD! 

[Lucky Larry]

[QUOTE=jazzman12]Also need to factor in if a person normally plays single line VP or high multiple line VP.You are 100X as likely to draw a RF every time you are dealt 3-to-a-royal if you playing 100 line VP as supposed to single line.Your odds are the same on each given hand, but you will end the year with a lot more total royals (not necessarily more winning sessions) by playing 50 line or 100 line VP regularly.
Ain't no 50 or 100 line VP for the Mrs (better not be ) - she plays $1 denom, max bet. [/QUOTE]

billyjoe,
You're right - we don't even count RF on multi-hand. Many times playing 20-25 hands over a multi-hour session we may catch multiple RF-sometimes several in the same draw.   Our last trip I caught 5 over a six hour session - two on one draw and one holding only an Ace.   

[spxChrome]

Interesting about Tunica, when I was there they had a good crowd but like you said no Hand Pays.  But the .25 and .05 machines had no problem dealing out AWAK and RF.  It just wasn't happening on $1 or up.  I saw several at the .25 level and below. Even my brother in law who has never played went and signed up for a players card.  As I was showing him how to play his 5th hand of poker ever he held a single ace and it filled in AA2AA for $500.  After that he said fun game I quit.  But I played 10+ hours no HP all DDB and TDB.  Another lady played longer because I broke for dinner and she didn't have a HP.  And another guy playing $2 denom played just as long did not get a single HP.  Then early in the AM someone sat down on the .25 machine my brother in law hit the AWAK on and pulled a RF.  Funny stuff.

[anthonybaresi]

It always amazes me how Shadowman and others leap into action to defend the integrity of VP from coast to coast, riverboat to Vegas.  As if human beings in gaming, including Corp. couldn't possibly rob the Customer. Well, we know--not think--that it has indeed happened.  And with VP no less. Several years ago, the computer guy working for a few small but hopefully growing casinos in Vegas rigged their VP machine.  It was very simple and virtually undetectable.    He simply eliminated the possibility of drawing the 5th card for a royal on half of the opportunities that came up.    How did they get caught?  The computer brain himself, who had had enough, spilled the beans to the Justice Dept. in Vegas.  However, just before he was to testify at the criminal trial, he conveniently was found shot full of holes in the driveway of his Vegas home. So don't any of you believe that these casinos are not capable of such evil.  Especially, the every increasing independnt Indian/riverboat joints.  There all over the place these days and they want to increase their drop and dozens and dozens of them don't get regularly inspected by OUTSIDE agencies like Vegas (which didn't prevent the theft described above)