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First the background.

I have a friend at work who loves poker and loves Las Vegas. He just got back a couple of days ago from a short trip to LV. Call him Mike.

He stayed at the Luxor and apparently played there mostly.

Mike told me about a hand that sounds very hard to believe. Here goes the story.

He's playing a cash game at the Luxor of $1/2 no limit hold em.

He said the house rules were kind of odd. They allowed a max. of $50 in chips to be bought and opened with at this table, but that if you bet at least $1 you could immediately buy another $50 worth of chips. Sounds weird. I've never heard of such a thing.

He said that he had been playing for several hours on his first $50 and was up to over $700 in chips when a wise guy who had come from the Bellagio joined the table. Mike and this guy were immediately was at odds with one another. Apparently the guy was throwing money around and being a big shot and was buying additional $50 in chips at every opportunity. Mike said he had about $1000 in front of him in no time flat and it wasn't from winning big pots.

Here's the hand in question.

Mike gets dealt pocket aces - clubs and diamonds. He didn't tell me his table position.

He limps.

The BB bets $50 total ($48 raise since everybody else had limped too).

It goes around and all fold but My friend who just calls and now has position on the guy.

Flop is As Ah Qh

Mike is ecstatic. He's flopped quad aces. He said that he'd never flopped any quads before of any kind before that.

The other guy acts first and goes all in.

My friend calls. They flip their cards and the other guy has 10c 10h.

The river is Jh.

Can you guess what's coming next?

Kh on the river. My friend's quad Aces got beat by a royal flush. Crazy huh? I find it really hard to believe. It's certainly possible though.

The guy won all his money plus a big card room jackpot of over $1000. Milke said he got a bad beat jackpot of 8% of the total pot.

He was steamed and tilting.

Next hand he said he got pocket aces again. That's also hard to believe, but it actually happened to me this past weekend at the meet-up in a cash game.

Same guy beat him - this time it was with trips if not mistaken. I guess he wound up losing a bunch of money on that hand too.

What do you think? Truth or one heckuva story? This fellow Mike is very honorable and I find it hard to believe that he made it all up. It sure sounds like a poker hand from a screen play though rather than reality.

Has anybody played cash games at the Luxor before? Are the rules really that odd about buying $50 at a time?