It's like any game of chance, I once hit a hard-18 in blackjack & received a 3 for 21. Dealer had a 20. Odds say stand on 18. But a psychic might make very different plays (like double exposure blackjack).
Imagine if you had a hand in VP where you would have gotten a royal if you threw everything away. I saw someone throw everything away, and get a natural straight flush.
I've held one card and gotten four cards to a different-suited royal. Maybe I missed a royal that way.
My best payout has been a 4AWK holding only one ace.
In Blackjack I often see two kinds of people
1) The ones that hate you whenever you don't play the mathematical optimal way - even if you do something crazy, win, and help other people at the table win
2) People who like to follow hunches, and appreciate plays that help them (even if it's Double hard 15 vs. 4).
I play sub-100% games often. Why? It's sometimes fun! If I catch a good run early, and I'm making a profit, I'll play as long as I can keep a profit running (e.g. use a 10-20-30% stop-loss).
If you like, keep holding A-10 suited in VP. My suggestion would be to keep track in a notebook of your results. If it seems like it's helping you, keep going. It it's hurting your long-term results, stop.
Mathematically optimal assumes the same strategy for millions & billions of hands. BUT the mathematics behind streaks and trends is whole different ballgame. For example, in a 100% game, in the long-run you will be even. But over 100,000 hands how many times will you cross from + to -, and vice versa? Probably only 4-6 times.
You can also measure the likely "abnormal" win or loss. A $5 blackjack player with a 1% edge's worst loss will probably be -$600 to -$800 before eventually winning. A $5 blackjack player with a losing game (but playing "by the book") will probably have a mac win of +$600 to +$800 before eventually losing.
I have no idea what the cycles & peaks/troughs are like in VP because I haven't ever analyzed it. Bob Dancer gives some variance information about "likely to lose $X dollars" 90% of the time playing game $Y. But what I'm interested in is sequence-info. It's like 2nd, 3rd, etc... order info after variance.
So I don't know how long I would suggested holding A-10 suited (or trying another non-standard move) before shifting back to the long-term mathematically optimal strategy.
Have fun! And hope you hit some more royals...