Any Experience with M Resort $500 Loss Rebate?

[Alan Mendelson]

This assumes the first roll is already a yo and you only need 17 more yo's. Either way, it's a crazy number. That doesn't really do it justice. You can say a billion or a googol, but we can't really wrap our brain around it.

Put simply, you're far and away much more likely to get dealt three royal flushes in a row than to see 18 yo's in a row (about 143,000 times as likely). Dealt RF, as in being dealt all 5 RF cards and auto-holding all 5.

If you're playing video poker on 10-play and are dealt 4 to the royal, you're 748,000 times more likely to draw the single royal card, on all 10 draws, than to see 18 yo's in a row. I've played a good amount of 10-play, and I've hit a royal on 2 of the draws three times I can remember. I've never hit 3+ in one go. I would assume the machine malfunctioned if I hit all 10 (not that I'd deny the money).

I've been dealt a royal four times.

First was at Mandalay on a 50-play machine. Nickels. It paid $10,000.
Second was at Rincon on a progressive that paid about $36,000.
Third was at Bellagio on their $5 progressive. Paid $31,005. I posted the photo here on this forum.
Fourth was at Caesars on a $1 game. I posted the photo here on this forum.

And then my girlfriend was dealt two royals within 24 hours.

Figure the odds. Shit happens.

You also mocked me for getting two $100K royals within 300 hands of playing $25 VP. It happened again. What you're overlooking is that in both cases I had played $1, $2 and $5 video poker -- sometimes for hours -- before I built up the bankroll to play $25 and I got the royals soon after switching to $25 VP.

I also played $1, $2, and $5 video poker sometimes for weeks or months without a royal. The royals just happened to have come when the denomination was $25.

I hit another royal this past week. But it was a 25 cent royal at Arizona Charlies on Boulder Highway. I started with $100 in the machine.