Question of the Day - 07 July 2026

About fifteen years ago when the Rivers in Des Plaines was new, this year they’re celebrating the anniversary, I remember one player had back to back royals in a few months. Then I had that happen to me on the main floor. Then I was having a good day on the main floor and decided to go into the high limit room. I was playing five dollar job and hit a royal. The worker came out, started the paper work,asked me to clear the machine and I watched her walk into the cashier cage. I looked back at the machine and changed to the twenty five dollar denomination hit the deal button and was dealt a royal. I think I had a third at another location,probably Joliet Harrahs. I also remember dumping all five cards and drew a royal flush. I also remember a sequential and a reverse sequential at Joliet Harrahs. They had 9/6 job on two machines at the bar where i could stand or sit for long periods of time. Of course the corporate actuaries put the kaboss on that and I stopped going there. 

Just wanted to thank LVA and Bob Dancer’s lessons, software and literature for the above experiences.

Playing VP at the Desert Dumpster Casino (probably a Boyd property, but I don't remember for sure), a woman next to me hit a heart royal. It was .25 denom, so a $1000 hand pay, as it was back in the day, and after the requisite delay, she was duly paid. As was the custom at the time, she was asked to "play off" the royal rather than just leave it sitting there on the screen, so she shrugged and pressed the button...and was redealt another heart royal. It was the EXACT SAME HAND, same cards, same order. The machine locked up, and of course they thought something had screwed up. I sat there, bemused, as various techs and suits came by; they obviously didn't want to pay her, saying that the machine had obviously gone haywire and the hand wasn't legit. I told them that I had seen her make that last bet and the machine had accepted it. They finally paid her, saying that it was possible that the same hand had been dealt just by random chance. 0.02 to the fifth power to one... 

On back to back trips, Bellagio, same machine, $1 five play, dealt a royal, both in Clubs. Next trip, that machine (and the rest in that bank, consistent winners) were gone.

Again at Bellagio, got checked into the hotel.  Heading for a certain machine I always liked from previous trips, but saw a progressive over $7K on another bank of VPs half way across the casino.  I was like Babe Ruth pointing to the outfield, told husband I'm gonna get that progressive.  I did, about 15 minutes later.  He had walked away after I'd sat down.  When he came back to find me I was gone, he saw the prog was reset to 4K.  He asked of folks still playing, guess somebody got the royal?  A lady said "yes the little curly haired girl, she hadn't been on it long."  I was little and curly haired back then.  He said he teared up, figuring it was me.  Funny, I'd seldom played that bank of VPs 'cause they were all JOB only.  I'd always preferred the DBs and DDBs, etc. with the sexy bonuses.

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I hit two sequential royals in 3 days. I once hit two royals but they were 7 hands apart not back to back.

I would suspect that it's pretty likely more than one Royal has been hit on a multiple hand machine.  Krackman posted something on x the other day he had four to a royal on a hundred hand machine and didn't hit a single Royal out of it! He deserved better he's a good dude.

I was in Laughlin many moons ago and a guy was playing a penny one hundred game machine. He got dealt a royal. Seemed like an hour before the machine stopped the celebration nonsense.

I was playing at Pechanga Casino in California and the woman next to me hit a royal and we were talking while the casino was getting her hand-pay. After they paid her off and unlocked her machine, she hit another royal 5 hands later. I have hit two during the same day (on two different progressives), about 4 hours apart at Pala Casino.

Many years ago, I was playing VP at the Trop in AC. A man across the  aisle hit a royal. Guess he got bored waiting for his hand pay because he moved to the adjacent machine, where he hit another royal on the very first hand!  

A friend I was playing alongside hit two royals in the same session on the same machine at the MGM.  Maybe 15-20 minutes apart

Years ago at one of the bars at MGM I got 3 royals all in hearts at the same machine in a 4 hour period 

I once hit a royal and my companions were ready to leave . I said "Can't shoot the horse that won the race" and pulled it twice more. Third one was another royal.

Here's why:  if you hit 2 royals in a row you would attract the casino's attention and they would shut the machine down and deny payment under the suspicion that the machine was broken.  Then they call someone out ... yada, yada.   Call me a skeptic I guess!