Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
This isn't a unicorn story, but it's an "almost got it" story.
I've told it before.
I was running a ton of coin-in at Harrah's Rincon at the one good VP machine they had on property -- 8-5 bonus with Double Super Times Pay. Was running 5 lines at $0.50 per credit, which was $3.50 per line, since it's 2 extra credits to have the Double STP feature on.
Double STP has a "jackpot" feature some don't know about. If you are dealt a Royal (1 in 649,739 odds) and also hit the STP multiplier at the same time (1 in 15 odds), you automatically win 20x. Well, 5 Royals at $0.50 would normally be $10,000, but 20x that would be $200,000.
Unfortunately the odds of this happening are 1 in 9.7 million. So I didn't even consider it.
Well, near the end of the session, I couldn't believe it... I was dealt 4 to a royal, and then the machine went into the multiplier, where it pauses for a bit as it selects one. This gave me a moment to stop and hope I'd see that queen of spades as the 5th card. Well, the multiplier finished selecting, and out came card #5. A BLACK QUEEN!!! Of clubs.
So sick.