Four Queens

So I was in Vegas Saturday night. I avoided blackjack entirely. I think I am done with that for a while. I played poker at a 3/6 limit Texas Hold'em table at the Aladdin. Was down a little until my last hand when I hit 4 queens. Not only did i rake the pot, I also won a jackpot bonus!!! Wasn't like 1000s of bucks or anything, but it paid for the rest of the trip, then some.

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omg that's exactly what each card looked like.

enough to pay for the whole trip

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dejavuHow much did u win exactly?

the 4 queens jackpot at the time was $116. i also won about $50 from the pot.

if you play poker in a casino (in this case I was at the Aladdin) they usually have a board on the wall that indicates the additional jackpot if you hit a certain hand.

the jackpot hands are usually 4 duces and up. that means there are 13 four-of-a-kind jackpots, as well as 12 straight-flush jackpots (determined by high card the S-F, not the suit) and of course 4 royal flushes (one for each suit).

so each jackpot hand starts off at $50. if no one hits a particular hand it goes up a certain amount every 6 hours or every day or something the casino has predefined. so that means a hand could go up and up in value if no one happens to hit it. because someone hit 4 queens the day before, my jackpot was only $116. but the 4 eights jackpot hadn't been hit in a few days, and that jackpot was over $700.

then the straight flush hands were really high, most at least a few thousand dollars and some over 6 or 7 thousand.

when the 4th queen landed on the river it took me a second to realise I had won a jackpot. too bad it wasn't higher, but shit i'll take it.