2 royals back to back

[richardrick7]

Methinks we should start collecting these urban legends and get HP to publish
them!!!

In a message dated 12/13/2003 12:01:18 AM Pacific Standard Time,
brumar_lv@yahoo.com writes:

Today I got 2 royals back to back--does anybody know what the odds
on that are?

That's amazing! Those odds are very very high. I think the 1 in
40,000 odds are the one to use.

It reminds me of a story I heard 4-5 years ago from a slot person in
the Station Casino. She said she paid off a big slot jackpot, which
was an odd amount like $5005. So the guy takes the odd amount ($5)
and sticks it into a $1 VP machine ... and gets a Reversable Royal
Flush ... a $50,000 jackpot. Is that story true? Who knows, but she
said she actually witnessed it.

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[Bill_Velek1]

richardrick7@aol.com wrote:

Methinks we should start collecting these urban legends and get HP to publish
them!!!

In a message dated 12/13/2003 12:01:18 AM Pacific Standard Time,
brumar_lv@yahoo.com writes:

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It reminds me of a story I heard 4-5 years ago from a slot person in
the Station Casino. She said she paid off a big slot jackpot, which
was an odd amount like $5005. So the guy takes the odd amount ($5)
and sticks it into a $1 VP machine ... and gets a Reversable Royal
Flush ... a $50,000 jackpot.

Might be just an urban legend ... but maybe not. As infrequently as I go to the casinos, I can vividly remember a lady who hit a Jack-Pot of some sort on one machine, and while she was waiting to be paid, she hit another Jack-Pot (same magnitude) on the machine right next to her.

I was absolutely _GREEN_ with envy. I just couldn't help it; please forgive me.

Bill

[brucem]

Methinks we should start collecting these urban legends and get HP

to publish

them!!!

It could make for interesting reading. A book like that is a great
idea because most of us love hearing these kinds of stories.

One urban legend I know was not true ... last year when the Megabucks
Jackpot was around $40 million a story circulated it was won at the
Palms by an underage person playing next to his mother. They shifted
positions, but the video cameras caught it and the big jackpot was
denied. I was also told it happened at Texas Station. Anyway, I
sent an email to IGT asking if it did, in fact, happen. I got a
reply in a day a two, saying it DID NOT happen. However, they
admitted it did happen a couple of years earlier in a California
Indian Casino ... so there was some basis to the story circulating in
LV. A few days later someone told me this story again as we were
watchin people play the Megabucks at the SunCoast (still not won). I
said that IGT told me personally that it didn't happen. He didn't
believe me and said IGT must have lied to me! I shouldn't have said
anything to him I guess.

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[jaxrbetter2002]

Here's an interesting story that I wouldn't have beleived if I hadn't
seen it with my own eyes...

I was at Mohegan Sun (CT) playing .25 PE in the Hall of the Lost
Tribes. The woman sitting next to me asked me to watch her machine
while she went to the bathroom. When she came back she was all
excited saying that someone had hit a Royal on a dollar machine with
45 coins in. From where I was sitting, I could see a couple suits
walking toward the area where the woman indicated so I got up and
walked by to see for myself. Sure enough, the man had hit a Royal for
$36,000. I talked briefly with the woman next to him who was his wife
and she was very excited. I congratulated her and went back to my PE
trying to justify how I could play $45/hand; certainly not with my
bankroll. I played there for probably another hour. On my way out, I
was walking near that machine and saw a lot of activity around that
same man so I got closer to see what was happening. I asked the wife
if he was still waiting to be paid for the royal? She said, no. She
said he had played a couple hands and then hit the Royal again (with
45 coins in). She said it was the same club Royal and he held the
same 3 cards. I didn't think to ask her if she knew whether the card
positions were the same. She said that the casino people wanted to
check out the machine to make sure that it wasn't a malfunction. I
wished her luck and hoped that they would validate the royal.

I was back in CT the following week and wanted to check out the
machine again to find out the pay table and saw that the machine was
turned off. I don't know whether there was something wrong with the
machine or what but, I don't think they wanted to find out if it was
going to give out any more royals. I hope that man and his wife got
the money for the second royal.