Be honest!
For me, $2300 on a Willy Wonka slot of all things.

4 A's with the kicker dollars. $2k

Came home with every dollar I went with. That puts me thousands ahead of anyone who gambles.

$600 ahead playing blackjack for about 3hrs one evening.

$2750 after all expenses were paid from winnings playing blackjack

I was too drunk to get out the pool

Never been. I've been to Atlantic City a couple of times, and won both times at the Blackjack table. In advance of my first trip, I studied the game, and learned to maximize my chances to win, e.g., when to hit, when to hold, when to double down, split, etc., based on what the dealer's hand is showing, along with betting (parley) strategies. I won several hundred dollars both times. The second time, I think it was over $600.00, part of which went to buying a Beeman R8 air rifle. Still have it. Great gun.

I was playing roulette once and was at the perfect level of impairment to where the board/wheel/odds started making sense in some type of insane way. Went up several grand in a few spins.

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

A couple more bourbons to really get in the zone and I think I managed to get out of there before those guys that break fingers showed up.

I gambled professionally for a while, but mostly not in Vegas.

The most I've made in Vegas is $5-10K a bunch of times playing poker.

$1400 jackpot on quarter slots. Paid for some magnificent meals while there. Beforehand, then-gf had won a $4k jackpot at a local casino which paid for our flights and the Venetian. That was ‘05 and haven’t been to a casino since.

A wife, 4 kids and 3 careers.


mike r

Only been to Vegas a couple times. Always work related, never purposeful. Never got into gambling preferring to exchange my currency for goods and services. Each time I got on the plane to leave I felt like I won. Can't stand that place. It's like living inside a pinball machine.

Ha! I was wondering what your answer might be!

Played with The Greeks professional card counters - my role was ''the big player'' they call me into the game with verbal signals & give verbal signals on how much to bet .

Won $5500 first time , $3200 second [2 days each time] then made the ""Griffin Book"" and was thrown out of the casinos . When they spot you they call all of the other casinos - inform them you are in town .
Very stressful stuff - not enough money for me to be away from my business at the time .

Thousands and thousands cause I don’t gamble when I go.

$2700.00 shooting craps. Quit and took it home. Dunes Hotel, 1964

Wife's winnings always pay for trip and then some.

I never win chit. Ill lose a C note, say screw that and head back to room to refill drinks.

Wife won 5k one time when we stopped at Boom Town in Reno for gas heading home on a $100 bet.

Its been big family joke for the last 30 years.

Never been

Been to some local casinos - never won because I never played either. Watched others or, in the case of one, only there to eat. They have a good restaurant.

Gambling has never interested me.

Before the corporations took over and the Mob ran the casinos, The big name casino's ran some of the best restaurants in the world, (At very reasonable prices.)

Had a friend in college who told me he was grateful that school was downhill from Reno. He would gamble away all his money including gas money and would coast down hill so he could make it back to school.

He and a friend won $500 counting cards and when he went to put it in his trunk someone beat him up and robbed him.

I guess that sort of team blackjack play requires splitting the win between lots of people, but there's no way that's worth it. Even just within the realm of advantage play (ignoring learning how to beat poker or sports outright) there are far better options.

I don't gamble, but one time I did walk by a slot machine and dropped a dollar in it, pulled the handle and just kept walking. I wanted to say I had played the slots.

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Never been to the place.

Does an STD count?

Couple hundred.

Did watch a guy at a blackjack table playing 3 hands at once, at $10,000 each hand.

Last time I was in Vegas I started at a blackjack table with $300. When I went to bed the next morning I had $4700. By the following morning I had $20 for a cab to the airport.

I’m dead even, unless you want to count the money I’m ahead by not ever going. I’d rather go to Pittsburgh to sample the fine seafood.

Never was a gambler, but was a player for a few years, Vegas, Tahoe, Reno, Carson city, Made enough to buy my first ranch and pay cash for it. piled all my stuff on the king sized bed wrapped it up in the bed spread and left, never looked back, drove thru Vegas, 5 tears ago never stopped, I have had my fill of being a player and Gambling Joints. No Regrets. Rio7

I can't begin to describe how much money I've won by staying the hell away from vegas.

Never been, but my future SIL won 300,000 the summer before last, playing poker.

Oh, by the way, I lived in Las Vegas for 3 years, also Lived in Fallon (right outside Reno) for 3 years. add up all the detachments and exercises I went to Nevada for, I spend a good part of My 28 years Navy living and operating in Nevada. It's actually a great place to live..well, it was, I hear the Cali Libs are migrating in nowadays.

I was three.

$0.00. I lost the same amount.

One better. I saved the cost of a room and transportation there and back. They did not build that place by paying people to come there.

$750 playing Craps. I love throwing dice. The dozen or so times I have played, I have lost money twice.

The 1st time doesn't count. I called the $200 I lost tuition money.

The most memorable thing ever happened in Vegas was named Mia.

Its funny when you go to Vegas because of business, you don't really think of gambling, even staying in a casino - at least I don't. I've been 4 times now. I will say I noticed a few married men with women that weren't there wives our first night out.

kinda funny story, we had a conference at the Venetian and each room had a mini-bar in it. Only they just didn't have alcohol and snacks, they also had adult novelties ([bleep] and vibrators). We paid the hotel $10K to go around to each room before our conference to take those out.

When I lived on the gulf coast my wife and I would hit the casinos in Biloxi. She got a big jackpot off slots once. Dude met us with a form we had to fill out and they took out taxes on it immediately. Soured me on the whole experience.

Can't really say for sure. Something over a million I guess - a few times.

I've been to Vegas twice, both times for weddings. I think I'm down $40 now, thats all I played. Rented a Corvette for $150/day from the hotel rental car place and put 800 miles on it driving up to Zion/Bryce Canyon and all over Utah, that was pretty good return on the money.

For me, long time ago in Reno I won -- 408 quarters --- when I hit --- the quarters came spitting out for what seem a long time. People close to me were watching and laughing along with me ... I collected my winnings and went home. It was good! Slots don't pay out in coins anymore, just paper. It's not the same.

Not a penny. I don't even play Kimber Roulette,

I was driving through Vegas in the 18 wheeler. We stopped in a truck stop near the town, and of course, there was a little casino in there. I put $5 into the video poker machine. In a few minutes, I was $3 ahead. I told the cashier gal to ring me up, I was done. Walked out of there with 8 bucks in my pocket.

I BEAT VEGAS!!

Yes split between quite a few people , I won nearly $70K bucks at one sitting . I'm of coarse playing on the teams money , buy in with $30 - $40K , known as ''a bed spread'' in the casino world .

Lots of members from MIT Mass. Institute Technology , Harvard etc. [weird people] the owners or the Team/Business are 3 NYC Jewish attorney's - nice folks and operate like a business .
You have to fill out job application & report winnings - W-2 form etc. . Owners average $750K per year each supposedly .

Some of the members are Knot-head know-it-alls , when counting and The Count gets really hot they start losing their mind that you didn't race over there that very second . I've been playing 5 hands at once on a table , each spot $5K table max $30K + riding and one of the counters losing their mind ---- like I can just walk away from all these bets and come to their table = STUPID
Nearly came to blows with a goof named Walt from colorado via california , he single handly got us 86'd

It wasn't for me

I always played craps. The most I would win, if I won, was between 1k-2k. Playing $2-$5 tables back in the 90's.

Last time I was there with the guys we golfed a ton. One of the contractors had an office there, so we used a work truck to go to a bunch of "far away from the strip" courses.

I won enough golfing to cover my casino losses. I gambled maybe an hour tops.

Pool, booze, golf course were my priorities at the time.

About 20 years ago, 3rd pull on a $1 slot (just off the elevator for the evening).......... $4,387.........

I was 14 and wearing a $200 suit, (which at the time was quite expensive). My Dad taught me craps before we went to Vegas. Teaching me it had the best odds of any game in the casino, with the House only having a 6% advantage if you take full odds. I wasn't shooting the dice, only betting the pass line, when another shooter started rolling a white hot hand. I had $7 dollars on the pass line. My Dad taught me a system called 1-3,4. Which meant you make a bet. If it wins you leave it on the pass line along with your winnings. The original bet + Odds, equal (3). If the next roll wins, draw down to 4 times your original bet. Repeat with 4 times your original bet (in other words, the (4) becomes (1) with each additional roll of the dice.
The shooter made over 20 passes. People had gathered around, crowding the table. Older men behind me were offering me $100's of dollars for my place at the table. I'd made place bets on 6 & 8, 4, 5 & 9. Other players at the table were betting huge. My place bets were hitting with every roll of the dice. I remember one of his passes was a 6 because I'd also hit "the hard way" which was a 3-3.
The ending to this story truly sucks because the last hand the shooter tossed one of the dice off the table. Someone from out in the crowd picked it up off the floor and tossed it back onto the table and the roll came up a 7. The stick man called it as a legitimate roll and literally a riot started. I filled my pockets with my chips, got down on my knees and crawled away from the crowd. It made the newspapers the following day.

When I got home, I bought this from a neighbor that was building it for $900.00

I drive through Las Vegas like chit through a goose, never even slow down except for wrecks, etc. Makes me a winner.

There is a nice bypass route around Lake Mead which completely avoids Vegas, scenic route that keeps you out of all the craziness on I-15.

Hahaha!

Damn right!

A friend of mine won $22,000 on a Powerball ticket last week.

Never been to Vegas! No desire to do so!

Neat hot rod. My cousin used to build those all the time. He had a property full of hot rods at one point.

Don't gamble so I can't lose.

Once, I put a dollar into the million dollar slot.

I didn't win.

I haven't been in Vegas in more than 40 years and that 1 time I was just changing planes. I never left the airport terminal. I might have played a roll of nickels but certainly didn't win enough to hire a luxury limo for the rest of my trip.

Honestly I think there's more money to be made with a one-die craps throw than counting blackjack at this point. Certainly less heat. The ol' Archie special. The ability to play poker and bet sports is valuable enough to me that I've never really messed with any of the advantage play stuff that could get me 86'd.

They say that that's an astronomically better bet than buying a state lottery ticket.

A hang over

Vegas big wig Moe Green has a lot to say on this question:

Most state lotteries have a "Return to Player" rate of about 50%. The minimum legal RTP for a Vegas slot is 75%. So basically any Vegas slot is a better gamble than any lottery ticket - not that either is a good idea, but there are degrees of bad ideas.

I've received lottery tickets as birthday or Christmas presents. I've never won anything. About anything, including a package of non-gay Oreos, would be a more useful gift.

Lost a few bucks playing nickel slots.

They lost a lot more on me serving me free drinks.

I'm opposed to gambling.

Watched a cousin run through hundreds of thousands playing bingo,
and in Atlantic City.

Literally.
They owned a resturaunt/motel.
Mid 1980s, they were late 60's. Sold out for $750k. In a couple
years they were back as managers for the new owners.
Broke, worked untill they died.

Another's wife ran a 12 gauge through her chest the day the foreclosure
notice arrived.
She blew the money gambling and hid the trouble,
until she couldn't.

Left a teenage and a younger son.


Trucking trips through Nevada?
Eat the cheap ribeye meal at the border casino.
Drop literal pocket change in the slots in the way to the pisser.

Was disgusted by it all.
Slots in the bathroom?
Watching guys drop every single piece of change at the row of slots
by the gas station door?

I never play poker in the jungle - There's too many cheetahs!

A couple grand playing blackjack. Seeing how far I can get with a hundred dollar buy-in.

Much prefer a friendly poker game between friends

Not in Vegas but in Biloxi MS.to date i have won 8000.00.

Most at one time was 3500.00.

Yes the tax man got his faster than i won it,but it was fun.

AKPenisDude won a free lap dance from a male stripper with a gay thong.