Royal! Wheeee!

I know this must be a highly anticlimactic post for some of you, but it was exciting to me. This is the second royal I've ever been dealt. Both in hearts. I guess hearts are just lucky for me.

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Play money

Congrat's i suppose, but what a waste!

well, i can't argue with you there...

Play Money, real money, I don't care if you were throwing cards against a wall and seeing what turned face up, a Royal is still just sooooooooo pretty.

Nothing comes close to the absolute rush of adrenaline a Royal produces.

Thanks for interrupting your orgasmic experience and finding the presence of mind to catch a screen shot of it, and then posting it for all of us to enjoy.

And you used BOTH of you hole cards. Sweet!

wow awesome!!!!

congrats!!!

Excellent.

I reckon I have played somewhere in the region of 200,000 hands since I have been playing online, and never had a Royal.

Wow, NEVER?

I got Royals on back to back days, and posted them here.

gottta love the royal always makes you feel better i believe

nice desktop shortcouts too

No.

I don`t think that`s strange though, is it ? I don`t have a book by me where I can look it up, but isn`t the average incidence of a Royal something like once in half a million hands ?

In a real money game I actually folded a royal flush draw. xJQKc on the board, I had the ten of clubs. preflop action was limp from the button, call from the SB, I checked on the BB with TQ (we're playing $0.25/$0.50, so $1.50 pot). I bet $1 on the flop after the SB check and get 2 calls ($4.50 pot). K of clubs comes, SB checks, I check, button bets $4, SB raises to $24. I thought about calling but I figured not all of my straight flush draws are outs.

1. It's very possible one already has a flush, so straight cards may not be outs.

2. It's also very possible one has the A, even if they only have one club.

3. If someone actually has Ax both clubs, I'm drawing dead

so I fold, button shoves, SB calls. SB flips over KK and button has 56c. Ac comes up on the river, 6 high flush beats the trip kings, and I would have gotten the royal flush.

That's with 5 cards though, Texas hold 'em you get to use 7 cards. The odds are better, not sure exactly what they are, but I'm sure it's online somewhere.

But In Draw Poker you get to discard X # of cards per betting round so,
theres that.!



40/52c2/50c3 = 40/(24 010 000)~ 1/600250 .

There are 40 possible two hole cards that are suited and in the range 10,j,q,j,a . Once this player has his two hole cards fixed , there is only one unique flop that gives him a royal flush out of 50c3 possible flops .

So preflop we have 40/52c2 . Now we take this number and multiply it by 1/50c3 which is 40/52c2/50c3 =1/649740

F.Y.I. I have gotten a Royal 4x in my 10 months online.
1 - Free Chips 5/10 *NL*
1 - Freeroll NL Hold'em
1 - Actual Tournament
1 - Omaha Hi FL Freeroll (not sure of the odds here)

Dealer: VintageV8 has a Royal Flush
Dealer: Game #10474098392: VintageV8 wins pot (675) with a Royal Flush
(*Taken from chat box)

PokerStars Game #10474098392: Tournament #52343347, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/17 - 00:49:52 (ET)
Table '52343347 13' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: VintageV8 (5490 in chips)
Seat 2: SilverSurfr9 (1385 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 3: cinrich (1395 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: fourhighflsh (1520 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 5: play_2_rough (1395 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 6: jtsunderpar (1605 in chips)
Seat 7: buffcuse (1365 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: syen_007 (1360 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 9: CHRISSY1569 (1365 in chips) is sitting out
CHRISSY1569: posts small blind 15
VintageV8: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to VintageV8 10♠ Q♠
SilverSurfr9: folds
cinrich: folds
fourhighflsh: folds
play_2_rough: folds
jtsunderpar: calls 30
buffcuse: folds
syen_007: folds
CHRISSY1569: folds
VintageV8: checks
*** FLOP *** K♠2♣J♠
VintageV8: checks
jtsunderpar: bets 90
VintageV8: calls 90
*** TURN *** [Ks 2c Js] Q♥
VintageV8: checks
jtsunderpar: bets 210
VintageV8: calls 210
*** RIVER *** [Ks 2c Js Qh] A♠
VintageV8: checks
jtsunderpar: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
VintageV8: shows 10♠ Q♠ (a Royal Flush)
jtsunderpar: mucks hand
VintageV8 collected 675 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 675 | Rake 0
Board [Ks 2c Js Qh As]
Seat 1: VintageV8 (big blind) showed [Ts Qs] and won (675) with a Royal Flush
Seat 6: jtsunderpar mucked [Jd 2d]

~I Just Checked it down so I could show the hand and it was a small pot w/ only 1 player in.~

I am guessing I am not at 200k hands in real money online play, but otherwise I'd say I am not to far away from 100k+ and never seen a royal. I played tons of tournaments (play money) before just to see what place I could get, then decided to go to real money.

I've never had a royal flush, or even a good straight flush (as in one I got good money off of)

I haven't either, 2 and a half years of pretty much daily play.

I have had 3 or 4 of them in 2.5 years - some of you are very unlucky. On a positive note - you haven't lost as much money as I have, but I guess that has nothing to do with luck lol.

I've had one Royal in a couple of years
Its a great feeling , I never show my cards if I have an option to muck and despite dozens of quads and a handfull of lower straight flushes I've never been tempted to show
There was something about the Royal flush that meant I couldn't resist

Extracted from the internet:

The estimated odds of being dealt a Royal Flush on the river; 1 in 43,316.

In five cards, it is 1 in 649,740. I have had one in about three years of playing. I wish I had kept better records so I could go all in on that 43,316th hand.

that is so awesome, makes 2 ppl who hit it and got to post it, i want 1 haha. ya play is still cool to get a royal i think cuz if the play money didnt mean shit to u, u wouldnt be playin it haha but hope to took everything u could

o and u should somehow change that royal flush on ur logo to hearts since it seems to be ur lucky suit

?!?!? when i first started playing... 3-4 years ago now... my first live SnG I had a straight flush... a week later i got my first royal... probably less than 200 hands dealt to me and i got a royal... It took about a year from there to get my next Royal... then i started playing online... I would say i See a royal once a month... but usually never get them myself, it's other people at the table...
I like hand hiearchy

wow man u play at some gnarly tables, i havent had the pleasure of having nor seeing a royal flush, nor have i had or seen a straight flush...something must be up with thatt haha i've been playin online for like 3 years, just recently been goin at it more however, but ive seen tons of 4of a kind

I am have seen some Royals before playing a lot of Home Games...and I seen one maybe on Pokerstars...But I myself have never gotten one.

I've gotten the draw too many times...but they push me out of the pot...those bastards!!!

Congratulations, I myself just right this very minute hit my first one ever in a 20+2 10seat S&G on Ultimate bet.

Nice hand, Tiloke.

Congrats to Lana & Tiloke on the only Royals i like

*1 Royal in approaching 3 yrs of play (seen 3 dealt to others)

yeah but doesnt this imply that you already have 4 of the 5 required cards?

It does not imply that you already have part. Those are the odds that, by the river, you can make a royal out of the seven cards you get to select from.

shoit i almost caught a royal flush today in diamonds, my birth stone i've been told, had KJ got AQ on the flop so i stuck it out, ended up with a 7d on the river to get my flush and win the hand but no royal =(