Saturday, November 17, 2012

When the working girl got a royal flush.

I was at the MGM playing some quarter VP in a section of the floor with a really friendly cocktail waitress. She wouldn't stop bringing me drinks. I asked for the first one and the others kept flowing. Beautiful. It might have been because I tipped her a decent amount on the first one or because I'm incredibly handsome. It's one of those two options and I'm betting it's the latter.

I was more than a little tipsy at this point and this extremely well dressed, good looking woman sits down at the machine next to me. From the way she smiled I knew what was up. She was working. I didn't feel like getting hassled and I didn't want to leave my waitress. After a nano second of internal debate alcohol won and I was staying no matter what.

Since I am a moderately friendly person I say hello, smile and got back to my game. It was obvious she was trying to chat me up, but my single syllable answers weren't giving her any help. So she started acting casual, messing with her purse and phone. Eventually she put $5 in to her machine and started playing. One coin at a time.

My waitress comes by with another drink for me. The lady orders a water, doesn't tip and continues to slow play, one quarter at a time.

About ten hands later she gets dealt four to the royal. Holds the four and the fifth card pops up. Boom! A royal flush, the most beautiful hand in all of video poker. Since she was only playing one quarter at a time (instead of five) she got 250 coins instead of the 4000 she would have gotten if she'd been playing with full coin in. $62.50 verses $1000. Ouch.

This time she screwed herself.

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