1-IN-274 QUARDRILLION VIDEO POKER

Starting in the 1980s I have been played all the versions of video poker in Nevada (Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Reno and Carson City), Atlantic City, New Jersey and Wichita, Kansas for some 40 years. 

But on the evening of June 28, 2020 I did the unthinkable. The unimaginable. Playing nickels on a 50-play machine I was, at first, playing six of the 50 hands and was dealt a Royal. A $1,200 payout. I jumped up to all 50 hands. Three hands later, I was dealt a Royal in Hearts. 50 dealt Royals for a $10,000 payout. On the same machine at the same Northern Nevada casino, three hours later - still all 50 hands in play - I was dealt a Clubs Royal. A second dealt 50 Royals. 106 dealt Royal Flushes in the same night on the same machine. The odds of this happening are 1-In-274.9 Quadrillion hands.

With likely close to a minimum of 30,000 hours of playing video poker, I believe the game is 30 percent luck and 70 percent strategical skill.  I would like to share with you my approach to the game.