A number of years ago I got 3 royals on same machine at the Palms, single line, over a period of about 8 hrs of play.
I'm still waiting for a royal on a redraw or back to back royals.
Royals on same machine
I learned about video poker in 1996. Bought Len Fromm's book and Gary Catlins
VPtutor program.(Truly works of art for the day.) Ran VPtutor on a 286. To keep
multiple games I had to create multiple copies of the program, change the pay
table, and wait 5 or 6 hours for it to re-analyze the game. Practised at home
for a few months.
First played for real at the old Flamingo Hilton in Reno. Started playing 1 coin
on a nickel 58 bonus progressive. Hit the royal on my first night for the
princely sum of $12,50.
OK I said to myself - royals do happen in the real world. Went back to the same
machine the next day, bet 5 nickels and hit the progressive for $236.
Two royals on the same machine in 20 hours.
The following June I was in vegas for a convention. By now I've graduated to
quarter machines.
Hit a royal at MGM Grand on June 22 for $1,000. Not bad since I came to town
with $500 to cover all expenses.
June 23 was my last day in town. 3 hours to flight departure. What the hey I
thought, let's take a flyer on dollars. Never played them before. Found a bank
of 16 slant-tops with 58 bonus. 4 or 5 players down at the far end. I took the
end machine furthest from them.
I had decided to put $100 in the machine, play it through once, and see what
happens.
- lost the first 11 hands - not even a push - 0% return on $55.
- 12 hand I got a push - the ROI is improving.
- the 13th hand I drew 2 for a $4,000 hand pay. HOORAY
The relevant point to this discussion is that the attendant told me he'd just
paid a royal on that machine no more than 10 minutes prior. The player took the
winnings and left. That explained why everbody was down at the far end of the
bank.
I learned real early in my VP career that "machines have no memory". Indeed this
sucker paid 2 royals in 15 hands (assumes the attendant had him play off the
previous winner).
Brian
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From: Misscraps <misscraps@aol.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, April 29, 2011 12:18:17 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] Royals on same machine
A number of years ago I got 3 royals on same machine at the Palms, single line,
over a period of about 8 hrs of play.
I'm still waiting for a royal on a redraw or back to back royals.
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I, like several other members of this board have hit royals on the same machine with little time in betweem during one session.
I hit the $.25 DB progressive at Four Queens in January, 2011, two times within five minutes on the same machine (#11). The first time was for about $1,100 and the second time was for $1,005.
I hit three royals in 30 minutes on the now gone $.25 JOB 9/6 triple play machine in New Orleans. Each one was on the same line.
I hit two royals at the NYNY on the 8/6 $.25 JOB progressives (also now long gone) on the same line. The second progressive payout was $1,003.
So, I agree the machines have no memory!
Larry Robinson.
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Subject: [vpFREE] Royals on same machine
A number of years ago I got 3 royals on same machine at the Palms, single line,
ver a period of about 8 hrs of play.
I'm still waiting for a royal on a redraw or back to back royals.
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Just to add another point of view to the discussion. I too have had multiple Royals on the same machine. My best are 8 Royals in 24 hours on the same 10 play machine, and 4 Royals within 1 hour on the same 10 play machine.
This proves only one thing, and that is, that it is foolish to quit a machine just because it has hit a Royal. No argument from me. I have had other machines that have kept hitting for many hours as well.
Now let's look at the other side of the coin, being on the machine that seems to be stuck on Hoover mode. The question is should you quit this machine after losing a specific amount of money.
The negative side of this argument states that it is a waste of precious playing time and because almost all machines are random and therefore honest, nothing will be accomplished in doing so. In my mind I believe this.
The positive side of this argument states that if the machine is on a bad run of hands, the switching of machines may put you onto a machine that will go onto a good run of hands.
We know that in true randomness you will hit runs of both good and bad. Sometimes these runs can be quite long. Unfortunately we only know the results after the fact.
The benefits and problems with switching are all in our poor little minds. If you switch machines and some Bozo sits down at the machine you were playing and uses it as an ATM for a few hours, you will not usually be pleased with your choice of moving. If on the other hand you sit down at another machine and it acts like an ATM you will be pleased with the move.
Sometimes I stick with one machine when it is losing, sometimes I will switch. I believe that if switching makes you feel better than it is the proper thing to do. The time lost is inconsequential, and if switching makes you feel better you will be less prone to making mistakes.
Only the true pros can play machines in Hoover mode hour after hour without being affected emotionally. The rest of us need to switch machines on occasion.
Regards
A.P.
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Two $2 Royals at Reno Harrah's 9/6 JB within 100 hands. Two years ago.
Proceeded to lose half of that at Atlantis on evil Multistrike Super Times Pay before we had to catch plane.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Misscraps <misscraps@...> wrote:
A number of years ago I got 3 royals on same machine at the Palms, single line, over a period of about 8 hrs of play.
I'm still waiting for a royal on a redraw or back to back royals.