gotta share the story

Great rules. Great pen. DD last round $25 table. Monster count but pit standing next to me at 3rd base watching counter at first digging for more and more cash spreading to two hands last few deals and tucking stiffs against dealer 4's which are turning into hands. I bet $150 to remain below first baseman. Dealer turns 3 up and and I get to split 2 aces. I catch a 3rd ace and have to pull the wallet out and the pit suggests I keep it out cuz I may get another ace. I do. 4 aces in a row so dealer slams the first with a face. Then face. Then face. Then the 4th face. High 5's with strangers and dealer and heart racing for a first time experience with 4 21's on the table. Dealer turns over the hole card of 8 with up card of 3 and you veterans aren't surprised to see the fifth 10 in a row to push the hands. The good news is I didn't draw any 9's and I have a day job! The unusual high and within 10 seconds a jaw droping low drained any lingering energy so I bagged it soon thereafter to play another day!

So I was playing a SD game that allowed RSA. I get all four aces and each ace gets painted with a Queen. Four Ace/Queens on Single deck and the dealer had to pay the thirty or forty bucks I had out on each hand! Obviously my "score" was minuscule but it was an amazing occurrence.

You spelled both "minuscule" and "occurrence" correctly in the same sentence! :-)

Probably a bigger longshot than your blackjack achievement! :-)

Don

Guy at my table has $150 bet and gets two 8's vs. dealer's 9. He hesitates but splits and gets two Aces. He's very happy but I just know what is under the dealer's 9. (without really knowing). Of course, you all know what it was too. The game is just not fair sometimes.

same shuffle at Gold Strike in Tunica back in 2002. Unreal.

I would bet that my chances of receiving 4 blackjacks in a row on a single deck pitch game is about 10% as likely as 4 dealer blackjacks in a row. Not math based of course.

EIGHT times.

A-2 vs dealer Queen.

Hit for an Ace (soft 14)
Hit for an Ace (soft 15)
Hit for a 2 (soft 17 gotta keep hitting and fix it)
Hit for a 5 (back down, to hard 12)
Hit for an ACE (13)
Hit for another ACE (aieeeee 14)
Hit for a 2 (16 fer the luv of...!)
Hit for a THREE to finally land on hard 19.

All those cards only tally up to -1 RC, one ten and five aces vs five plus cards, but I suppose I still shouldn't have been so surprised and disgusted by the dealer's ten in the hole :-(

Good thing they didn't realize 2 of the queens were suited!

You should only be playing the best games. That really sucks.

It was a 6 deck hand shuffled shoe, S17, etc and otherwise not bad rules, as I recall, in a midwest store near Chicago. It happened quite a few years ago & the game there is not as good nowadays. But at the time in spite of no seven card charlie it was not a bad game overall. I managed to take a few dollars off of them in the end anyway.

The pit critter was actually standing right by my seat at third base on this table and directly watching this hand play out. When I got to the fifth hit I asked him "Hey, Five Card Charlie?" and he shook his head... then I asked again "Six Card...?" and "Seven?" "Eight????" as I was taking the hits.

Still "no" however... and after I lost the hand in the end I asked him, "Hey man can I at least get a t-shirt or free bowl of soup at the deli or something for that?" LOL

BTW as far as I can figure NINE hits (one more ace in there) is the maximum possible limit of the game: any other hand combo of cards and you get a pat hand sooner.