Would you want to get lucky with a dealt royal flush, or...?

[Alan Mendelson]

Would you want to get lucky with a dealt royal flush, or just with the normal "distribution" of royal flushes?

Let's do the math:

A dealt royal comes about once in 629,740 hands of play.
A royal flush in general comes about every 42,000 hands. This figure is approximately averaged over various types of games because, for example, a natural royal in deuces wild games come about once in approximately 45-thousand hands. In Jacks or Better, a royal is supposed to come about once in approximately 40,000 hands.

This means you should have about 15 drawn royals for every dealt royal. Well, I'm way behind on the number of drawn royals. But I have been dealt a royal flush twice -- once on a nickel 50-play machine, and once on a $5 progressive machine. But if I could exchange my two dealt royals for 30 drawn royals, I would be very happy to make that exchange because I would come out ahead.

My dealt royal on the $5 progressive was for $36,000. But if I could exchange that for 15 drawn royals at the same denomination, I would have grossed $300,000 (15 X $20,000) or $264,000 more.

My dealt royal on the 50-play machine at 5-cent per coin was worth $10,000 -- a tidy sum. But if I could exchange that one dealt royal for 15 royals on a $1 game paying $4,000 each I would gross $600,00 instead of the $10,000 payout on the 50-play machine.

Bottom line: if I am going to get lucky, I would rather get lucky with more drawn royals than one dealt one.

[regnis]

You need that dealt royal on a "double Pay" game where it pays $60,000 for $1.

They had 2 of them in the hi limit slots just off the craps tables at Caesars---don't know if they still are there.

[Rob.Singer]

I think I'd rather play this as an AP does. If they get behind the royal cycle by 5 or more RF's, they'll not say anything about it until the time comes where they can either make up how the math finally came thru for them--or if it actually did then they can claim the math is the math is the math, and that the RNG's they played were very cooperative with their specific needs.

I'll take a dealt royal flush any time. It legitimizes all of my video poker skills.

[arcimede$]

It's unlikely anyone will exactly hit the standard percentages of RFs. Some people will hit more 4RFs and others will hit 3RFs or dealt royals. I've had more than my share of dealt royals, probably close to 10 but I've never had a redealt royal. I've also been bad on 4RF.

[Alan Mendelson]

You need that dealt royal on a "double Pay" game where it pays $60,000 for $1.

They had 2 of them in the hi limit slots just off the craps tables at Caesars---don't know if they still are there.

I recall the "double pay" slant tops they had in the Palace Casino slot area which was about thirty feet or so from the main cage -- near where they have blackjack tables now. I never saw them in the high limit area under the "small dome."

Yes, if you were dealt a royal you got some massive amount of money and if I recall it was $60,000. It was a multi hand game. The last time I saw it was more than five years ago. About 12 years ago when I played it, I was dealt quad aces on one of the ten screens playing 25-cents per coin and it paid something huge like $800.

There is another unusual slant top in the ring of machines outside the Shadow Bar in the Forum Casino at Caesars, and this machine also has some big jackpots if the big hand is dealt to you. I don't recall the name of the machine and I didn't play it. It requires extra coins per play.