Sequential Roulette
Lots of video poker players dream of hitting a royal flush. Some of us have even played on and off for, oh, 20 years and have never hit one.
Not bitter. At all.
Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel.In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number, various groupings of numbers, the colors red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18).
One lucky video poker player at Red Rock Resort not only hit a royal, they hit a rare sequential royal flush.
The player’s $5 bet reaped an incredible $217,591.55 jackpot. And the Internet went wild.
The stuff gambler’s dreams are made of. Photo Red Rock Resort.
We shared a photo of the sequential royal on our Twitter account, resulting in more than 130,000 Tweet impressions. This has nothing to do with the story, we just like to show off.
The sequential royal flush jackpot is remarkable for several reasons.
- The roulette table is as ingenious as the wheel. Numbers are arranged sequentially, but the patterns of red, black, high, low, odd, and even, create betting options that correspond to the wheel's layout and ensure that no bet has an advantage over any other bet.
- A winning(?) strategy for Roulette? Roulette seems like a fool’s game. But here’s a possible strategy for playing it: 1.Begin by betting a dollar on red. 2.If you win, take your winnings and go home. 3.If you lose, place two one-dollar bets in a row on red. 4.Whatever happens on those two rolls, go home (either.
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First, it’s remarkable we didn’t even know this existed.
Apparently, some video poker games require sequential royal flushes appear in order, left to right. The player at Red Rock nailed a “reversible sequential,” reading right to left.
Second, that’s a metric hell-ton of money.
Third, seriously, 20 years. Just saying.
The jackpot was won on a game called Video Poker Deluxe. Note to self.
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How rare is a sequential royal flush? Well, the elusive royal flush (where cards can appear in any order) is 1-in-40,000. No small feat, obviously.
The odds of getting a sequential royal are about (wait for it) 2.4 million-to-1.
Or as we call it in Las Vegas, Saturday.
Defying the odds is what Vegas is all about. Well, that and cleavage. But mostly that first thing.
European single-zero wheels also use a standardized system, but the order of the numbers is different.
The roulette table is as ingenious as the wheel. Numbers are arranged sequentially, but the patterns of red, black, high, low, odd, and even, create betting options that correspond to the wheel's layout and ensure that no bet has an advantage over any other bet. The table can accommodate dozens of unique wagers; all of them have various probabilities of success, and yet all of them (with one exception) have an exactly identical house edge.
It's truly a mathematic marvel, relentlessly systematic yet utterly unpredictable. Here are the numbers in sequential order as they appear on an American double-zero wheel:
Zero is between 2 and 28. Double zero is between 1 and 27.
All roulette bets on an American wheel have a house edge (advantage for the casino) of 5.26% except for the five-number bet of 0, 00, 1, 2, 3 which has an edge of 7.89%. All roulette bets on a European wheel have a house edge of 2.7%. The only exception to the above occurs when the 'roulette surrender' rule is used.
Aside from surrender and the five-number bet, all roulette wagers buck the same house edge regardless of how the chips are placed. One chip wagered on a single number faces the same negative edge per dollar wagered as ten chips on various numbers. Here's an example of how that works:
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Of course, streaks can develop in the short term. A player might be a net winner after a few dozen or a few hundred spins, but the casino will get that back eventually and win even more when the trials stretch into the thousands and beyond.
The only way to consistently beat roulette is to reduce or eliminate the casino's built-in advantage. Take heart. It can be done. For more on this subject go ReadyBetGo's section on Roulette Strategies.