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Point is... it's 99% luck.

Its probably more like 99.9% luck. I haven't calculated the precise odds of drawing into a straight flush under these rules, but my guess is straight flush is probably on the order of a thousand to one assuming you aggressively go after them.

That of course doesn't mean you'll get it after a thousand hands either, just that statistically that's probably close to the average across all players. I would imagine many players getting it in hundreds of hands, and others taking tens of thousands of hands (if they even play that many).

Pretty close to what i found. i did a simulation for fun with a simple set of rules. didn't perform as well as you (373 pts/game), but the distribution of hands was reasonably close.

Simulated 100000 games.
Accumulated points: 37281155
Average pts/game: 372.81

Hand Type Distribution:
nothing: 7408 (7.41%)
pair: 12273 (12.27%)
near_straight: 11333 (11.33%)
near_flush: 26931 (26.93%)
two_pair: 13714 (13.71%)
three_of_a_kind: 7216 (7.22%)
straight: 3729 (3.73%)
flush: 12646 (12.65%)
full_house: 3829 (3.83%)
four_of_a_kind: 837 (0.84%)
straight_flush: 78 (0.08%)
royal_flush: 6 (0.01%)

My final average was 370.2 pts/match (pre-3x multipler) which is for all intents and purposes identical to your simulated runs. The biggest difference was your simulated runs had a lot more four-to-the-straight hands, while my actual scores had somewhat more four-to-the-flush and actual flushes. My guess is that's probably because your heuristics favored keeping three to the straight more often than my own playing strategy.

If straight flush and royal flush had a combined 0.09% rate (granted, the error bars for those numbers is relatively high given the numbers) then I was probably slightly unlikely having done on the order of 1000-1100 matches I probably had a two in three chance to get one of them. If, say, the vast majority of players did the minimum for milestones, that would amount to on the order of 40ish matches per player, and one out of 28 of them getting one of those two hands across the entire event (this also assumes playing a reasonable strategy).

Not everyone played it of course, but that's still a pretty decent chance to get one of the two legend badges if you did.

Got 7 day ban after using vpn to get free crystals from webstore. Nice move kabam

Kabam does not ban people for using VPNs. VPNs are not prohibited, and lots of players (including developers) use them.

Also, the webstore is operated by a completely different company for Kabam (xSolla) and to the best of my knowledge there is no specific cross check between IP addresses contacting the webstore and IP addresses connecting to the game that happens automatically. Perhaps Kabam could research that if they were doing a manual investigation of a game account for other reasons, but I don't think this is something the average player is screened for.

Something to note is that there is usually a gap in time between when a player does something bannable and when they are actually banned (because there is usually some investigation by the fair play team: automatic bans are limited to only a few specific areas of the game these days). So while players assume what they were last doing is what got them banned, it usually isn't. Sometimes it is, but this is uncommon.