Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
Alan, doesn't the fact that you got a bunch of quads--half of them dealt--and you probably got a good amount of straights and FH's too, while my machine GAVE ME NOTHING BUT A ROYAL IN 2-1/2 HOURS! give you any doubt at all that not all is random with these things?
Rob... as today's teenagers might ask... what are you smoking?

It's all random. I played that same machine dozens of times before and hit a royal on it once, and went another night and got quad aces on it three times, and then there were nights when I drew nothing for dozens of hands. Of course it is all random.

Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
Also, go back and look at my royal again. Notice anything "odd" about it? Something I've never seen: cards #3, 4, & 5, then #6 & 7 are actually a ROYAL IN SEQUENCE. I know if you line them up on the screen in sequential order then some machines pay a big bonus for that. But what I got means the cards in the deck actually WERE in sequence. Where's my bonus??
When you want to look for patterns, patterns will show up. Here is my favorite pattern:

Once about ten years ago, at 4 in the morning, a cleaning lady at Caesars was wiping down the VP machines. As she moved down the row and reached my machine, I moved back so she could empty the ash tray and wipe the area down and as she did she wished me good luck. On my next play, I hit a progressive royal for about $29K. About a year later, again at about 4am the same cleaning lady was coming down the row of machines, wiped down my machine and wished me luck and on the next play I hit quad aces with a kicker for $10k. Now that is a great pattern... better than anything you can come up with Rob.

(And, let me continue this true story: When I hit the $29K progressive I tipped her $200. A few weeks later I was back there for New Year's Eve. After the party at about 1-AM I was walking through the casino with my date and the same cleaning lady sees me, runs over and gives me the biggest hug saying Happy New Year! She was so happy and so excited to see me. But what she didn't realize was that her hands had plastic gloves on them as she was cleaning out ashtrays and I had this giant ash handprint on the back of my tuxedo jacket from her hug. And we laughed about it for the next couple of hours.... And I continued to see her at Caesars for several years and each time she approached I waited for her to clean my machine and wish me luck. But, unfortunately, there was no third time.)