Strip Poker: No-Cap High Hands

In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city.

Hitting a straight flush or quads is always exciting in itself, since it happens so infrequently, but on top of winning the pot (which you will most likely if you have such a hand), some casinos are giving players an added high-hand bonus. However, unlike most rooms, the Mandalay Bay and Treasure Island poker rooms are not limiting the amount of the jackpot on elusive royal flushes.

At Mandalay Bay, quads and straight flushes pay out as much as $500, but the royal flush jackpots will continue growing until they are hit. At the time this article was written, the diamond royal flush jackpot was at $5,000. Once a jackpot is hit, the corresponding high hand resets at $20.

Treasure Island pays out at least $100 for quads or straight flushes and cap the high hand bonuses for these hands at $599. The royal flushes, however, never pay less than $600, and there is no limit to how high it can go.

Both rooms say that their royals have gotten as high as $6,000.

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