Once hitting your first royal flush, the odds of another on the following hand remain the same, one in 40,000.

What are the odds of hitting two consecutive royals in a row before your first royal appears? The answer is one in 40,000 times multiplied by one in 40,000, or one in 1.6 billion.

When I worked at the Cal Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe in the early 80's, I recollect one graveyard shift us paying off a consecutive royal flush.

The kicker was that the player had to invest just five, and not 10 quarters.

Reason being, once his jackpot was paid, the casino, on our dime, inserted five of our own quarters to clear the machine and let him play through. This lucky guy came right back with a natural royal flush, again in spades.

Someone from Reno is going to have jog my memory, but I vaguely remember a person hitting three consecutive royals at a Raley's supermarket on Virginia St. about twenty years ago.

Meanwhile, drawing a full house or a four-of-a-kind should happen more often than once in a blue moon. When you discard the two cards of little value, for instance, you keep three aces and throw away a nine of diamonds and a five of clubs, odds are you will improve your hand to either to a full house or four aces 10.4% of the time.

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