dealt 4 cards to the royal flush

[tommiedee]

Funny, I almost never pull a 4 card royal on the draw.  Most memorable win at a $10 single hand came holding just 2 cards when I hit it for 40 large.  Other memorable ones came with 1, or 3 cards.  

[snewbfire]

Have been dealt for to the royal numerous times. As a matter of fact any royal that I had been lucky enough to get was never off of holding four cards. Then finally this past spring I was playing a deuces wild progressive machine in Cherokee, NC. Was dealt the four cards and actually got the fifth one to drop. First time I ever had that happen. I'm sure I have had four to the royal close to 200 times so the odds said I was definitely due.

[Minn. Fatz]

Statistically speaking you'll complete a RF more often after drawing 2 or 3 cards than you will after drawing 4 cards, as the probabilities of your initial hand having 2 or 3 to the RF are greater than it having 4.

The odds against completing four to the RF are 1 in 47. The odds of not completing 200 four-card Royal draws are small, but not vanishingly so, about one in 74 against or 1.4 percent.

Good Mathematics!

[wildman49]

Not sure how you all are hitting them holding 3 to the RF, I have hit them that way but very rare for me. I have had 5 royals this year one was dealt the other 4 i held 4 to the royal to hit them. I hold 2-3 to the RF a million  times per trip never see it. 

[chattycattty]

Not to worry Wildman your time is coming. The only royals I have never hit would be drawing one or getting one after throwing all five cards away. My favorites have been the times I have hit royals holding only one card. I have done that three times I can remember. Good luck to you getting some more royals.

[Minn. Fatz]

Back of the envelope stuff, assuming you always hold any suited Broadway cards from the initial deal and try to fill the RF:

You'll get dealt a RF once every 649,740 hands.
You'll get 4 to a RF once every 2,765 and fill it once every 47 trials, overall once every 129,948.
You'll get 3 dealt once every 60 and fill it once every 1,081, overall once every 64,974.
You'll get 2 dealt once every 4 and fill it once every 16,215, overall once every 65,094.
You'll get 1 dealt a bit less than twice every 3 hands and fill it once every 178,365, overall once every 271,726.
You'll get no RF cards once every 13 hands and if you tossed all of them to try for a RF you'd do that once every 383,485 trials, overall once every 4,949,257.

So if you tried for a RF on every deal you'd get one once every 22,795 hands (but that wouldn't make up for all the expected return you lose holding, say, ATh from ATh7s7d7c...)

[BillyJoe]

So if you tried for a RF on every deal you'd get one once every 22,795 hands (but that wouldn't make up for all the expected return you lose holding, say, ATh from ATh7s7d7c...)
Which is exactly what the teams (remember Frank Kneeland?) will do when a progressive bank hits a point of return that justifies that approach. The team members will occupy every seat in the bank, and play it strictly for the RF, until one of them hits.

[loverboi]

getting a royal flush is next 2 impossible

[chattycattty]

But it is possible and that is why we keep playing. Welcome to the forum. Congratulations on your first post.

[Rayser]

"so your sayin there's a chance" scene from dumb and dumber.