Was this machine fukin with me? (VP-related)

My home casinos are quite deuces-challenged, with the best game generally being Illinois Deuces--aka Airport (McCarran) Deuces, aka pseudoNotSoUgly Deuces. This game comes in at just under 99% payback, or just over 99% with cashback.

Yesterday I chose a poor sister of this game (WRF/5K/SF paying 20/12/10 instead of 25/15/9), but with a progressive natural royal of nearly $1850. I believe this raised the game to .33% better than pNSUD, but still well under 100%.

Early in the game I was dealt suited AKQT with a deuce. Normally in a deuce game you hold a pat WRF over four to the natural royal. But the natural royal was so high and the wild royal paid 20 instead of the usual 25, so I decided to drop the deuce. A later check at home on my analyzer proved that my play was by far the best option. But I got nothing.

Then came a very freaky event. Not many hands later I held a single deuce. On the draw I picked up AKQT of clubs to complete a wild royal. (The same ranked royal cards as what I held several hands earlier, and possibly the same suit--I didn't note the suit the first time, but recall that it was black. So either clubs or spades.)

I don't think computer programs have a sense of humor or nasty streak or any kind of agenda. But maybe it retained and repeated something in its recent memory. Anyone have any similar experiences?

Your machine has obviously been hacked.

The machine was fukin' with you.

If you has not of held the single deuce, you may have been dealt a Royal.

Russia has been influencing my VP machines for years

Were you wearing a lucky hat?

Was the hat made in Vietnam?

A NORMAL machine will have a RNG to give the cards THAT WERE ALREADY DEALT,at the beginning of the hand.

That weird hand or 2 ,that you had was just random,IMO.
BUT,it would cause me to cuss the machine out.
I think that all of us VP players have been there.


I have seen weird shit B-4.
Have you ever played a machine that you KNEW it that was an evil bitch? Yeah.

Returned to the same bank yesterday with the royal jackpot now approaching $2000, and had (almost) the same thing happen again. I again held a deuce and drew AKJT of clubs. Slightly different than the AKQT of clubs that I drew before, and didn't get the chance to throw away a pat WRF for four royal cards this time. But still unnerving to have the same thing happen again when I don't recall anything like that happening before.

My usual reaction to such things is 'with my luck holding the deuce probably cost me the royal.' But with my suspicions of a gaffed machine retaining memory of certain hands and then repeating them, I almost think the next card up would have been the same as what I got when I dropped the deuce in the earlier hand. Whatever that was.