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- From: scratchy.caltech.edu!cuf (Carl Rhodes)
- Newsgroups: rec.gambling
- Subject: Red 5's at the Trop story.
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 23:19:14 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- So you want a story about the Jackpot 21 at the Trop,
-
- I was playing at the over/under table (8 deck) Sunday for
- one time thru the shoe just to get away from the pink of the
- Circus Circus for an hour or so. The trop offers what it calls
- Jackpot 21. If you get 4 red fives, you win the Jackpot which
- happened to be $2,700 this morning.
- We are down to the bottom of the deck, and the game is
- dealt for the players face-up. The guy next to me has two red fives
- and he puts out to double-down. The dealer kindly informs him, "Sir,
- you know we have JACKPOT 21 here. There could be a few more red 5's
- in the shoe here." He points towards the shoe much like a woman in
- one of those car convention shows.
- He talks the guy out of doubling down and he hits. A RED FIVE.
- Everyone gasps, but no one screams or anything. The dealer calls out
- "Three Red Fives". The pit boss comes over and calls up to cameras.
- They have to make sure to get it on film for it to be valid. So we
- wait for about 4 minutes, and the suspense is killing everyone.
- Finally the pit boss gives the OK and the guys has to signal
- big for another card out of the deck, just so the guys doing the
- filming can catch it. He scrapes the table and motions for a card,
- and out comes (you guessed it) the 4th RED FIVE. With a $10 bet, the
- guy took home $2,700. Not bad. How about the gain on that hand.
- Too bad it wasn't me, and the guy wouldn't even tip me for
- taking that Black King to bust my hand just before he hit...........\
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- Carl
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