The 18 yo's

[monet]

Alan never saw 18 yos in a row. He probably saw 3 or 4 and then made up a number without realizing how insanely improbable it was.

Has he ever been dealt two royal flushes in a row? That would be significantly more likely than seeing 18 yos in a row. 0f course it’s technically possible, but I’m sure it has never happened in the history of casino gambling. Maybe that puts it in language he can understand.

Your Royal analogy isn't really fair.
I have seen many people lock the machine up with a Royal and get a Royal on the next hand on single line.
It isn't easy or common but that happens all the time or at least more than you think.
Every time you push the button you have around a 40,000 to 1 shot to make a Royal right?
That changes once the first 5 cards are dealt out but from the jump it is still only 40k to 1?

The longest odds wise event that happened to me and it took about 20 years before it happened.
I was dealt a Left to Right Royal in Spades... 10-A.
This happened to me when the bar at Slots-A-Fun had incorrect meters making the game well over 100%
I hit the Royal for a little over 1500. The problem was I wanted to play the Aces and Eights that night but
they were putting in a new carpet so the machines were shut down. The Sequential Royal was over 43k at that time.
Not that I would of hit it over there it was just a funny thing to laugh at for me.

The odds are something like 76 million to 1 and that is far easier and possible compared to 2.1 Sextillion to 1