Congrats on your win!!

Regardless of whether the machine selects 10 cards when you hit the deal button (5 face up, each with a hidden card under it), or 5 cards when you hit the deal button-followed by however many cards you draw, I don't think you could have drawn the royal flush. In the first case (2 layers of cards) you already know the cards that you needed were under the cards that you discarded...which you wouldn't have discarded if you had played for the royal. In the second case (five dealt, random number generator keeps "shuffling" until you hit the draw button), you held 2 cards; had you held 3 cards the timing would have been different, so different cards would have appeared. No discarded royal .

I always picture the random number generator as a kind of centipede creature (a cartoon centipede...so it's cute! ), dancing on piano keys! lol! Whatever keys (cards) his feet are on at the milli-second that you hit the deal/draw button...that's the cards you get!

My amazing video poker story spans four or five (or six) years . It started in May of 2000, when we were in Las Vegas to get married. The morning of our wedding I hit a royal flush at the Las Vegas Club . After we got married we were back at the Las Vegas Club, where we had a suite, and that evening I hit another royal flush! I always think of those two RF's as wedding gifts from my parents . Later in the trip, I hit one more royal. It was the first time I'd ever hit multiple royals on one trip...and I hit three of 'em!!

Our next trip to LV, I hit 3 more royal flushes!!

Our next trip, I hit 3 MORE royal flushes!!!

Our next trip, I hit 3 MORE royal flushes...are you kidding me!!!???!!

I no longer remember how many trips had 3 royals per trip...it was about 9 or 10 trips I think; most of the royals were on five-cent machines, a few were one-cent or two-cent machines. Everything from $40 on a penny machine, up to $1360.00 (or so) on a progressive five-cent 10 coins in.

It was a heckuva' run!!

I wish I were still on that run...