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2 guests hit $70K royal flushes at off-strip casino

A pair of lucky guests hit royal flushes Thursday for more than $70,000 at Green Valley Ranch. ...
A pair of lucky guests hit royal flushes Thursday for more than $70,000 at Green Valley Ranch. (Station Casions)
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By / Las Vegas Review-Journal
October 16, 2020 - 1:21 pm
 
Updated October 16, 2020 - 2:10 pm

Thursday morning proved to be extremely lucky for a pair of visitors to Green Valley Ranch Resort.

The guests each hit a royal flush worth more than $70,000.

The first jackpot came at 12:38 a.m. when a guest hit a sequential royal flush on a $1.25 bet on a Double Double Bonus Progressive machine for $73,403.50.

Then at 10:49 a.m., another guest bet 50 cents on a Reversible Royals Progressive nickel game and hit a sequential royal flush for a $71,861.16 jackpot.

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