Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
Originally Posted by
AxelWolf
Sigh* you held the fifth card.
Did you look at the paytable? There was no reason NOT to hold all five cards. There was, for example, no bonus if the fifth card was an ace. Mickeycrimm did the correct thing holding all five.
As has allready been pointed out, it was a joke, well kinda. I never hold all 5 unless the game pays more for kickers.
Many years ago on the first VP machines supposedly there were a few instances where people drew to dealt 4 of a kinds and drew a "five of a kind". I'm skeptical. But even if it did happen a few times, I highly doubt there are very many of those type of machines left. Yet, all the VP writers to this day still seem to include this as some great advice. Also, I have seen where people post up pic's and get admonished for not holding the fifth card and they recite the same old BS they have read.
I have been playing VP since the early 90's, and I worked at a casino for about a year in the slot department. I know many people, AP's and non-AP's who have been playing VP for many years and not one of them has ever seen or heard of this happening outside the old rumors.
It kinda started before I was really participating on the forums. I had a friend who believed he was seeing this kinda nonsense(not just the five card thing, other crazy stuff like Rob thinks he sees). I told him the machines were playing tricks on his brain. He swore up and down it was happening all the time. So I made a bet with him that he couldn't ever find a legit scenario he was talking about. Obviously, he never did.
Anyways, I'm not sure exactly how it got started but a few years back there was a discussion about this on WOV. I said it was nonsense and put up a $500 freeroll bounty for anyone that could provide proof. No one ever did, however, I got a few PM's from people trying to pull a few fast ones. Eventually, I canceled the bounty(a few years was good enough because I dont want the hassle of dealing with people taking con shots at me ).
Let's think about this, there is no special reason why this would only happen on dealt4 of a kinds. Why can't you draw to any amount of cards and have the same card show up? If that isn't happening you can be damn sure it isn't going to happen during a dealt 4.
I suspect nowadays it's just as rare as your 18 yos in a row.