I have gotten a Dealt Royal twice.
Once when I first started out in May of 08, then once a few months ago.
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> Coach V after any hand including a royal your chance of getting a royal the very next hand is one in 40000,
> or thereabouts depending on game played. Only about 1% of video poker players will ever get back to back
> royals in their lifetimes. I have never redrawn a royal, throwing away all cards and getting ba royal. That is a very
> rare event also and you are indeed lucky if you have redrawn a royal. On the other hand I have not been dealt a
> royal since Jan. 2003. The chance of being dealt a royal on an HONEST machine is greater than one in 650000.
> I estimate that I have gone at least 9 cycles since my last dealt royal. The chance of this occuring on HONEST
> machines is less than one in 8000. Think about that!
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> From: coachvee <coachvee@...>
> To: acvpp <acvpp@yahoogroups.com>
> Cc: vpFREE <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>; vpmail2 <vpmail2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wed, Mar 9, 2011 8:40 am
> Subject: [vpFREE] Back-to-back royals
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> Hi Gang:
> We have a friend who is a comedian who works on cruise ships. He's also a
> video poker player and right now he's on the Allure of the Seas, one of
> Royal Caribbean's two new mega-ships (the Oasis is the other).
> He sent us an email the other day about an unbelievable occurrence that
> happened to him onboard. He was playing 50-cent DDB when he held three cards
> to a clubs royal and hit it for $2,000. After getting his hand pay, on the
> VERY NEXT hand, he held a queen of spades and got another royal!!
> He posted pictures of the royals on his Facebook Page and it was amazing to
> see.
> He asked us if we had ever heard of anyone doing this before and we wrote
> back that we have friends who live in California who also had this happen to
> them.
> My questions are:
> 1) Is it possible to compute the odds of this once-in-a-lifetime happening?
> 2) Does anyone else on these boards have any other stories of back-to-back
> royals?
> Regards,
> CoachVee & Hedy
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> PS: Hedy and I will be staying/playing at Showboat in AC this weekend
> because I will be playing poker in the AtLarge Tournament events next door at
> the Taj. I know Siona and Llew of the AC group will be playing as well but
> was wondering if any other members of these boards will be taking part.
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