Had a strange trip to Vegas and need some insight into how strange it really was. I do not normally play deuces game very often, maybe 10% of the time for a break.
Day 1
Some Ultimate X at GVR, others - no wins of note. switch to deuces and hit four on a hold 2 draw for $1,000.
Day 2
Off to Laughlin for two days staying at River Palms. Up and down, nothing of note with much DDB. Start to notice that I have been deal 2 dueces about 40 times (guess) and I never got even a third duece. Just seemed odd. Switch to dueces and hit four on hold one draw for another $1,000.
Day 3
Stop at Aquarious, drop about $900 playing DDB and SDDB. Switch to dueces and hit 4 when holding 3, another $1,000. In all these cases, I only played 30 hands or so before hitting, and did not play much after, so although I don't know total hands, it was not many. Still never even three deuces at DDB!
Day 4
Stop at Red Rock (back to Vegas). Stop at entrance machines and loose $200 playing full pay DDB. Swith to Loose Dueces with third $100 and on the fifth hand am dealt 4 dueces after throwing out a nothing first 5, for $2,500.
Play other games and win nothing else that day.
Day 5
At bar at Bellagio, not winning at anything, switch to deuces and hit 4 dueces on a five card discard, another $1,000.
Take a walk to Planet Hollywood. Playing 3 play Bonus 8-5 and nothing. Switch to one play and try Bonus deuces, about 30 hands in, hold one 2 and draw 3 and an ace, for $2,000. Starting to wonder why I just don't play dueces all the time but know something weird is going on here so I only play a little at a time and continue with my normal plays (loosing at that though).
Day 6
New Years eve at the Paris. Will stay there but will not play here as it is BAD VP. About 6PM, stop back at Planet Hollywood. Play triple $1 for for about half hour and bonus poker just is giving me nothing. Switch to deuces and hit 4 on about the tenth hand for one win, for $1,000. Can't remember what I draw to? Decide to try for a little longer on this machine. Dealt four to the royal, and hit one, for $4,000. Cash out and go to get ready for new years eve.
Watch fireworks from in front of Paris and then I am ready for goodnight, as early morning flight out. As I am walking back through I see a Ultimate X machine open and can't resist a little play before bed. Play DDB and whatever for half hour $.50 triple play. Watching person next to me play same game but playing deuces. Seems to hit and get multipliers alot of the time so I decide to try it as I have never played deuces on Ultimate X. Like this could not get more bizzare, I am dealt 2 dueces on about my tenth hand, and of course I hit four on one of them, and the one with the 7 times multiplier, for a $3,505 payout. Cash out, went to bed, went home AM.
Not being dueces player on a regular basis (yes I practice and know plays) I knew this was weird, but not sure how weird. What is the frequency of dueces?
And as a footnote, 2009 was not a good year, and my Royals were about 3 short when I hit the one here, but it was nice to give a positive hit to the year that generally sucked.
One more thing, noticed that final W-2 at Paris (only play there and win, thank you) was dated 12/31/2009 even though I won at about 1Am 1/1/2010. Was looking for that positive start to 2010, but I guess I'll just have to try again.
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