Oops They Did It Again, sigh...

[Tedlark]

  I played for a bit today at Empress in Joliet, IL and the woman playing right next to me was platying 5 play DDB. She got DEALT Aces and then I looked and saw she was only playing 1 coin per line. The sad part is she had the credits to play max coins. If that were me I would have needed an aspirin.

[faygo]

Aspirin? I'm thinking something stronger, like a gun.
 
Thought being if I wasn't going to use the brain, I might as well blow it away.

[bigboy]

  I played for a bit today at Empress in Joliet, IL and the woman playing right next to me was platying 5 play DDB. She got DEALT Aces and then I looked and saw she was only playing 1 coin per line. The sad part is she had the credits to play max coins. If that were me I would have needed an aspirin.
 
I don't play short coin, but in the case above, the payout is still linear for each coin. If it had been a dealt Royal, yeah that would be ugly.

[MikeA]

I saw it happen at Texas Station (north of Las Vegas) this past Wednesday (Aug 29).  There is a bank of Optimum Play machines close to the Wall of Fame in that casino.  I had sat down and a couple of machines away from me, a young lady was playing $1 Denom DDB on the full-pay machines, 5-credits per hand.  I wasn't paying a lot of attention after noting her game and denom.  After about a half hour, I hear her "scream!".  I looked over and she had hit a Royal.  BUT, she had decreased the denom to a Quarter and was playing only one credit.  Her bankroll had rapidly dwindled at the $1 level and she was trying to milk the machine.  I don't really know if she was playing above her head in denom.  Whether she was addicted to the game or what!  None of my business.  I just felt really bad for her.

[shadowman]

I seen lots of short pay royals. Especially on higher denom machines. The one I remember the most was a friend of mine visiting us in LV. He had been playing standard 5 coin quarter. A little while later I heard him gasp and he was dealt a RF playing a single dime. A whopping $25 jackpot.  He commented that he wasn't getting anything. It was his first RF ever playing VP off and on for 20 years (he's mainly a table player). Two days later playing triple play he hit two more on one hand (I've never done this). At least these were full coin.
 
 

[royal flush]

atleast your friend learned the lesson to play full coins and hit 2 royals

[7come11]

I'm guilty of that just today. The Harrah's by me has a non-smoking section with only a few VP machines, all the .25 machines were taken so I played a $1 machine at 3 credits each...didn't have a lot allocated to play with and while I was happy to win $750, kind of bittersweet knowing 5 credits would have been 4 grand.
 
Thing is, if I'd have been playing 5 credits all along, I'd have been out of cash before I hit the royal.
 
Can't complain at that win though. Went to Blackjack and craps after that and made another $700, so all in all was a very good day. 
 
Best of luck at your favorite casino

[shadowman]

I did the same thing about 7-8 years ago. It was a July 4th weekend and the casino was packed. I played quarters at the time and every one of the full pay machines was busy. So, I decided to sit and play 2 coins on a dollar machine hoping that I could find an open quarter machine a little later. I was dealt AKQJ of clubs and as I pressed draw there was absolutely no doubt in my find that the 10 would make an appearence. It did. I was both angry and happy at the same time (can that really happen?).
 
I should note that playing short coin on this machine was the best payback available (99%). All other quarter machines had paybacks significantly lower (~97%). Also, I realize that had I been hitting max bet it is almost certain that I would never had pressed max bet at the same time as hitting bet once twice followed by deal. So, I never would have gotten the RF. Still, I grumbled for quite a while. 

[MikeA]

I've got 20 days left before I celebrate my 1-year anniversary of my last Royal <sigh>.  Long dry spell.  Last year, I had one on Sept 4 and followed it with another on Sept 23.  Here lately, I haven't been getting many 4-to-a-Royal draws even.

[shadowman]

Do you know how many hands you've played? My longest royalless streak was around 200K hands a couple of times.