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Need to resolve a bet.

A fella is sitting at HL slots at Caesars playing DSTP 5 handed. Pulls 4 to a royal with a 10x multiplier. Properly holds the four to a royal.

What are the odds of at least one royal flush?

 

The probability of NO royals out of five is 46 "bricks"/47 cards remaining taken to the 5th power.

(46/47)^5 = 0.8980486591

So the probability of at least one royal is just one minus this.

1 - 0.8980486591 = 0.1019513409 = 10.2% = 1 in 9.81

Did he actually pull one?

 

No the fucker missed it.....5 times

 

That's too bad. And also, im curious about what the bet actually was. If you're involved, hope you won!

 

Now we want to know which one of you threw in an October Vegas trip on the sly...

 

Try 50 times

 

It involved a true royal, monopoly money, caveman drawings and eye makeup.

That's all I say.

 

Lets just say, regardless of the Royal hitting or not, and regardless who the winner of the bet was, there is a handy involved!

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That is truly sickening!

 

That could drive a man to drink.

 

Sickening, CJ.

 

More sickening that you should brick that (46/47)^50 = 34.12% of the time. And 11.64% to brick 100 in a row. Lots of frustration on the way finding that miracle hand, unless you're just naturally lucky of course.

 

Luckily that's me!

 

Was once playing 100 hand nickle denom DDB at PH, got dealt JQKA suited, bricked on all 100 hands, not 1 royal. A little while later I switched to 50 play and again got dealt 4 to the royal, again missed on all 50 hands. My friend sitting next to me confirmed I had bad luck and I haven't played 50 or 100 play since.

 

Hahaha, that would be a good time to stop

 

I've bricked my last four 4-to-a-Royals on 10-play