Happened to me at Trump Castle in Atlantic City years ago.
25 cent Royal. When I played it off, I got the same suited Royal again!
I was 86ed from the place a while later. They said "why is a Las Vegas" player playing in Atlantic City?" LOL
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, coachvee@... wrote:
>
> 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
>
> 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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