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- A Rancho Cucamonga guest won $1,977,758 on a $5 side bet with a diamond royal flush at Yaamava’ Casino.
- The win brought Yaamava’ Casino’s reported total major table game jackpots to nearly $4.5 million in 2026.
A royal flush in diamonds is the best hand a player can hold in Ultimate Texas Hold’em. This week, it was worth $1,977,758.
Yaamava’ Resort & Casino at San Manuel said a guest from Rancho Cucamonga, California, placed a $5 progressive side bet before the cards came out, then watched the flop complete a five-card royal flush in diamonds, the top qualifying hand on the game’s progressive pay table.
Here is how that bet actually works. Ultimate Texas Hold’em’s progressive is optional and separate from the main game. Players who take it put up an extra $5 before any cards are dealt, and that money feeds a shared jackpot pool that grows until someone clears the top of the pay table. Miss the top hands, and the side bet pays nothing at all. Hit one, and the whole pool changes hands at once.
For everyone else at the table, that $5 side bet is a long shot by design. Progressive pay tables reserve their money for hands almost nobody holds, and most sessions end with the bet paying back nothing. That is what makes a payout like this one rare enough to be news instead of just another night on the felt.
Yaamava’s Ultimate Texas Hold’em progressive jackpot caps a big year for the casino
This is not Yaamava’s first big table game win of 2026, which also happens to be the casino’s 40th anniversary year. The casino says two Club Serrano members split a $1.24 million progressive baccarat jackpot in August, and a Los Angeles resident turned a $100 bet into $1.2 million in March. Yaamava’ puts its total in major table game jackpots this year at nearly $4.5 million, a figure that comes from the casino rather than an independent count.
Kenji Hall, the general manager at Yaamava’, credited the win to the property’s gaming floor, saying:
There is nothing more exciting than seeing one of our guests experience a win of this magnitude. A $5 wager turning into nearly $2 million is an incredible outcome, and it reflects the energy, anticipation and unforgettable experiences our team strives to deliver every day across our gaming floor.
The winner’s identity has not been released.
Every other Ultimate Texas Hold’em table running that same $5 side bet is chasing the same top of the pay table tonight. Almost nobody gets there.
