The odd of the odd…sure history repeats itself. Approximately seven years ago at the Mirage, I tapped a dealer out of a $10-$20 limit holdem game…the player in the small blind was just winning a pot with a pair of Aces. I sat down, the button moved.

Now the conversation is, “Wow! You had A-A in the small blind and big blind and won both pots.”

The same player now has the button, different dealer, (me), and is once again dealt – you guessed it – A-A. He wins the pot. He picked up pocket Aces, small blind-big blind-button, with two different dealers and won all three hands. Odds on this? Hey, go figure!

A week ago, $8-$16 holdem, I dealt the player in the 1 seat, pocket Aces three hands in a row. The first pair of Aces wasn’t shown, he mucked it on the turn when a four card straight came. He won the next two hands and showed them down – made four of a kind on the 2nd hand. Now you might be wondering if he was telling the truth about the 1st hand…I’ve known this player a long time and would definitely say “YES!”

Incidentally, a player at the table asked for a deck change after the 1st pair of Aces was shown, (this would be the 2nd hand with A-A), new deck and still the player received A-A in the pocket with a new deck).

On the 4th hand dealt, his first card was an Ace. It was unplayable, but out of the board and his hole cards, he had 9 Aces at play in 4 hands. Hard to top this one.

Although this isn’t a ‘topper’ to the Aces story…it’s an addendum…a few days later while dealing to the guy (Bill Looper) that had nine Aces in four hands, (he brought up the conversation), a player in the game over heard the story and added her ‘nightmare’. She was dealt A-A in the big blind, small blind, and on the button. She lost all three of those hands.

Thank the Card Fairy, the Poker God, and all reigning Deities in the realm of gambling that I didn’t deal that little trio of uglies.