The place: MGM Grand, Las Vegas
The date: June, 1997
Background: I had been playing video poker for about a year, practising with VPTUTOR on my 286 MS-Dos home computer. I had 3 royals under my belt in the first year (2 for nickels, one for quarters).
June 22 I had hit a quarter royal (number 4) at the Grand.
We were flying home the 23rd. Since I had several hundred dollars of winnings in my jeans, I made the momentous decision, for me, to try $1 poker for the first time.
My plan was to insert $100, play it through once, and see what happened.
I found a bank of 16 slant-tops offering $1 5-8 Bonus poker.. There were 3 or 4 others at that bank, all down at the far end. I took the last machine at the other end.
- Put my benjie in the machine.
- proceeded to LOSE every one of the first 11 hands. I was horrified. That $55 would have lasted me all day at nickel 7-10 double bonus (which was widely available in the day).
- I pushed the 12th hand. Things are looking up.
- I then drew 2 to the royal on the 13th hand. QJA - kt
The 13th hand of dollars in my life! $4,000.
Here's why this story is relevant to the thread. When the attendant came to do the hand-pay, his first words were "I just paid a royal on that machine 10 minutes ago. The player took the money and left."
Very early in my V.P. career, I learned an important lesson - ie - the machines have no memory. This machine paid 2 royals in 14 hands (maybe 15 hands if they made him play off the first royal).
Many superstitious players seem to feel that they must leave a machine after a good win, believing that it's programmed not to pay out again for a long while. It just ain't so.
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