[vpFREE] Re: I GOT THE ROYAL TREATMENT AT MGM...TWICE!

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy wrote:

> "Two royals in one day is very/lucky good, but the way I got them is the story. My next goal is to get dealt a royal
playing Pick'Em. I know it's going to be a tough task, but I'm not
giving up."

This was a joke, Pappy knows a PE royals he just got one.

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, RWHANNU@... wrote:
>
> Isn't any Royal on Pick 'Em, in effect, a "dealt Royal"...the two "fixed"
> cards are "two to a Royal", the card on the top on one of the piles is
> "three to a Royal" and the other two you need (that you can't change either)
> have to be the ones dealt "below" it.
>
> I guess the biggest difference is you can screw up a Royal like this on
> Pick 'Em by picking the wrong pile.

The odds of getting a royal at PE would be 1 out of 324,870 or half that of a dealt royal, except with 3 to a royal and a pay pair, you choose the pair, if the 3 to a royal has an A (because no SF chances). Do you want to count this as "screwing up". Thus the chance of a royal reduced to 1 out of 351,182.

In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Curtis Rich <LGTVegas@...> wrote:
>
> When dealt "3-to-a-royal" in pick 'em, I'm not sure that the odds of hitting
> a royal are the same as with regular video poker.
>
> In regular video poker, you get to see five of the 52 cards before
> discarding two of them. So, the two new cards are drawn from the remaining
> 47 cards.
>
> In pick 'em, you only see four of the 52 cards before choosing your
> final cards. So, the two new cards are coming from the remaining 48 cards.
>
> In one case, you need two cards out of 47. And, in the other case, you need
> two cards out of 48. But, I really don't know if it changes the odds any.

PE 2/48x47 is one out of 1,128; 5 draw game 2/47x46 is 1 out of 1,081.

David

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