Runner-Runner-Rebuy

I went up to Seneca Niagara Casino on Friday night to play some live cash games and ended up with the worst bad beat I've taken in a long time.

I get up there at around 9pm, and of course the list is really long, so I have them put me on for 2/5 (10 to bring in) NLH $1000 max, and I grab a pager. I needed to get a new players card, because now (finally) they can be used to get rated while playing poker. After taking care of that, I wandered around the casino for a bit, and eventually sat at a $10 Caribbean Stud table. Down $100 in less than 5 minutes. Not a single winning hand, so I wander some more.

Settle at a .25c video poker machine. Drop in a twenty. Play max credits, don't get paid on a single hand. Drop another $20. Repeat. Not a single pair of Jacks or Better. At this point I contemplate just going back to the poker room and wait there. But instead, I drop another $20 and just play single credit, so I can kill some time, and not toss tons of money into the casino coffers. I hate playing single credit, because even when you make quads you don't get paid very much, but I can't sit in a casino and not gamble.

So I'm playing single credit Jacks or Better and on my third hand I hit -
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The fucking Royal. For a whopping 250 credits. $62.50. I start swearing at the top of my lungs and nearly punch the machine. The old ladies around me couldn't understand why I was so pissed to hit the Royal.

I NEVER play single credit. And now 3 hands into switching to single credit play I hit the Royal (first time for me on a machine), and get a measly $62.50, instead of the $1000 plus $9500 progressive that was god-damned owed to me as far as I was concerned. I almost took a swing at the old lady who told me I should just be excited to hit a Royal at all.

Steam turned into laughter a few minutes later, and I snapped the above photo with my phone, just before my pager went off for an open seat.