I have no clue exactly how many multi-millions of hands of video poker I've played. But the best little royal run I ever had (where the royal odds were 40,000+) was at the Pioneer in Laughlin. I'm guessing it was about 1999 or 2000. There was a lucrative promotion going on. I was playing unlinked 101.8% flush attack.
I hit two royals on the same machine about an hour apart. I took a break then came back, sat down on another machine and promptly hit another royal. Flush Attack royal odds are about 45,000.
Incidentally, I was un-computerized in those days. I used the Paymar/Reul flush 50 strategy, then moved to the Tom Ski VPSM strategy.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
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Once again I wonder how many times Mickey and me have been within ten feet of each other, back in the olden' days. He strikes a nerve when he talks up Laughlin with explicit detail, say circa 1999-2002 (through the River Run).
I became a Cowpoke (slot card newbie) at the Pioneer August 1995. Did you all know the Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall had the first slot club in Nevada?
I was barely educated in VP/Gambling in 1999 myself, no computer yet for me until Spring, 2001. My VP knowledge consisted of what was found in the local library and the paperback called "Videopokermania" (Dwight & Louise Crevelt, 1991). Who has that one in their library?
Their "Optimum Strategy" (page 89) had 19 lines, which included Three Cards to a Royal> High Pair. It worked for me.
Don Laughlin taught me the room comp game at his Riverside casino. You got two comped nights for your next visit for playing 500 points ($2,500 coin-in). But in January 1999, I was offered 3 nights on a special mailer, my first birthday comp. So I invited my new gal for our first out-of-town trip.
We checked-in, and was given two tickets for the daily promo, one pink and one blue ticket. Back then, the Riverside did four country themed weeks that ran into Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday. It must have been German week, something about the Oompah band. They elected a King and Queen each night, winning $500 and dinner at their Prime Rib Room.
Back then drawing tickets were issued for a lot of gambling feats. They also were issued for eating, sleeping and maybe even breathing. Probably a couple thousand of daily tickets in the drawing drum. We were playing quarter Jacks 9/6, on skinny IGT uprights on a bank between the pit and the high limit room. Anyone have a snapshot in their mind from then?
I went over to the drawing to check it out, leaving Helen at the pair of machines. I think we had cocktails pending? Well I won the drawing to be King with just one ticket in the drum. Helen was oblivious and was pissed that I did not return for a half an hour.
She got over it. I am not sure if we did the Prime Rib Room before or after the 3RF>Hi Pr royal or not? The next day on the same bank the second 3RF>Hi Pr royal appeared. Helen thought I made a deal with the devil and was ready to bolt if I got another one.
That was my best four-way gambling trip parlay! Thanks Don.
BS
PS
Tonight is Saturday of the River Run. Anyone seeing Bachman & Turner in the new Events Center at the Edgewater? Eric Burden was going to christen this new "E" Center last night.