Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
This is an interesting problem: what's worse, losing on the smaller pays which come more frequently such as the full house or flush, or getting the "full pays" on the full house and flush and getting short change on the royal which comes about perhaps once in 40,000 hands?
Running 6,000 hands doesn't even put you in the neighborhood for hitting a royal, but imagine the losses you would suffer with lower pays on the full house and flush?
And to be honest, if I were getting the full pays on the full houses and flushes, it wouldn't bother me to take a short pay on the royal since the royal would be nice gravy at that point.