Bloody hell. My earlier post must have jinxed it, eh? Well, reverse-jinxed it. Positively affected future outcomes.
It did good, anyway. A Royal Flush is mine, after a mere 11,086 hands of Texas Hold’Em on XBLA.
And when I say “mine”, I really mean “the power brick which sat atop the A-button for the last 2,000 hands.” And before the power brick was a Charles Petzold book.
No matter; I’m now sporting a shiny “Luck of the Draw” Achievement. Yay!
Have you got all the Perfect Dark achievements? The brick seems to be an advanced version of this:
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/27/machine-used-to-unlock-xbox-360-achievement-points/