I recently hit a sequential royal flush. I was seated near a husband and wife who were playing for lower stakes than I was. The man especially was in full mumble about how bad his luck was that day. (Complainers are common among video poker players. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve sat next to a guy just like this.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We had not shared a word with each other before the royal, but they both congratulated me on it. I said, \u201cYes, a sequential royal is pretty rare.\u201d He hadn\u2019t noticed it was sequential before I mentioned it, and then he told me what bad luck it was that the game didn\u2019t pay extra for sequentials.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t consider an $8,000 royal to be bad luck. And even if sometime in the future I am playing on a machine with a sequential royal bonus, which I almost never do, today\u2019s royal has nothing to do with the odds of me hitting another one on a different machine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He told me he had only hit one sequential in his life. I commented that I had hit quite a few, and in fact didn\u2019t even know how to do an accurate count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He looked at me and said that sequentials are so rare that nobody has hit quite a few. And counting them wouldn\u2019t be difficult. Even an idiot could do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cReally?\u201d I responded. \u201cActually, I\u2019ve played a lot of Fifty Play and Hundred Play and the cards are so small I usually don\u2019t even check to see if they are sequential. And, in fact, one time I was dealt a sequential royal on a nickel Hundred Play machine for $20,000. Does that count for one sequential or 100?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He backtracked quickly. \u201cI wasn\u2019t considering multi-line games. And yes, I can see that with multi-line games in the equation, it\u2019s possible to hit a lot of them. And, wow, $20,000! That\u2019s pretty cool!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThank you,\u201d I said. \u201cNot bad for an idiot, huh?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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