OK, so here I am playing a JOB machine in the B-Bar at the Borgata.
I am a decent player, trying for optimum strategy (barring errors-which I
know I make periodically). I modestly average about 500 hands per hour,
maybe a little less with major distractions-you know, the random player next
to you who wants to start a conversation, or waiting desperately to spot a
cocktail waitress; and more with complete concentration. At this point in
time, I was playing very quickly. It was a newly (less than 3 months)
installed bar top IGT.
This is what I believe happened, but now I am second guessing myself:
I threw away the whole hand and whoa and behold: zip-zip-zip-zip-zip
ca-ching! A Royal Flush!!
Wow this had never happened to me before! The credits showed up
immediately on the screen even though I never pressed the button to stop credits
from sounding off. But wait! I look down at the screen and I see all the cards
with the "hold" sign over them. I swear I gave up the hand and had a royal
on the redeal, but now I am beginning to second guess myself.
Only once did I have a dealt royal and that was at MSS several years ago,
and the "Do you want to Double Up?" question appeared, which, btw, NEVER
came up during any play of mine unless I specifically pressed that button
after a winning hand, (which I hardly ever did.) So after pressing, "NO", the
machine locked up and rang waiting for a hand-pay. It was exciting but that
double-up screen took a lot of the spontaneity out of it.
Has anyone had this experience with a royal on the redraw? Is it a
possibility, or did I just imagine it was the redraw and it was actually a dealt
royal? Again, these are new machines and the ones that have the "double-up"
option automatic unless you press "No, and don't ask me again" after a
winning hand. (Which, btw, you can turn back on by going to the menu and back
again to the game. No need to change denominations or games as was discussed
earlier.)
Christy
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