On a progressive would you hold just a "10" to draw the remaining cards?

Not mine but I came across this weird play. Someone held just a "10" on a .25 cent progressive and drew the remaining cards for a nice progressive royal flush. Would you do the same? And how high would the progressive have to be for you to make that play? Even if the progressive was let's say $5000, I would have dumped the lonely "10" and missed out on the royal. This person held "10" and got lucky with the royal so he or she got the last laugh.

I can't imagine that's the right play

The only circumstance I'd consider it would be in a Vp tournament ...it's definitely not optimum play strategy

Not under any circumstance.

My software tells me that holding the ten is a smart play - if the progressive is over about $14,000. Otherwise no. But if enough people made that incredibly bad play, the rest of us would probably be enjoying much better pay tables.

On two occasions I have held one card to a royal and had the other cards fill in. If the ten was the best card available on a given dealt hand, I would hold the ten. After all, a ten is part of a royal. To each their own.

Absolutely MAYBE.

It all depends on conditions and circumstances.

How many machines linked to the progressive, how many credits the progressive is, which game I'm playing, the pay table, and more, much more.

Holding only the 10 is, most likely, part and parcel of a "Maximum Royal" strategy. I would never suggest it was the "wrong" play. Nor would I state it was the right play.

It was, perhaps, not the best or highest "EV" hold at that moment.

It just depends. ::: shrug :::

Perhaps the fellow was dealt 4 deuces and a ten. And he felt real lucky.

The only way he could get a Royal Flush was to either drop all 5 cards or drop the 4 deuces and hold the ten; he took the more prudent option.

God looks out for drunks and Irishmen. Odds are the player was one or both.

Somewhere along the same line of thinking in Don Diego's post a co-worker of mine once showed me a picture on his phone of his four deuces while playing deuces wild. He held three deuces and got the fourth deuce. However, I noticed that he also held a queen along with holding the three deuces. I asked him why he held the queen. He said that by holding the queen along with the three deuces that it also gave him a chance to get a wild royal or 5-of-a-kind. I told him that by holding the queen he limited his chances of getting the fourth deuce. He insisted that holding the queen was the correct play. He got upset with me and walked away. But I still congratulated him for getting the four deuces. Shrug (lol).