I recently tried my hand at a local casino and won $240.00 from a slot machine. I wont make it a routine but i bought some more ammo with it. Anyone ever win big? I seen that someone hit 90,000 on friday.

Wifey goes some, I hate that crap!

The only people I've ever seen have any luck with it are people who already have a lot of money.

No.

Only the house wins. But at least the payoff is better than lottery tickets.

I enjoy playing craps or blackjack once in a while. I am up over the long run, but not getting rich anytime soon from it.

Sports, roulette

I bought a lottery ticket every single day for over 9 months til I hit a winner.....I won $10!!

I almost always win.

I almost always assume i'll lose, and not play.

I used to be a gambling addict.

Terrible habit.


Haven't played the machines in a long time.

Everyday driving hwy 285 to Orla.

Just farmin', that's enough.

In the process of getting my college degree, I had to take a year of Probability and Statistics. It pretty much ruined gambling for me for life. On the rare occasions when I gamble, I take the amount I'd be willing to spend on an evenings entertainment, play something cheap and have a few free drinks until it's gone. Then I go to bed.

Sure occasionally someone will win and sometimes win big. However, the odds demand that in the long run you WILL lose. If you play well in the games that involve skill, you will lose more slowly, but in the end you will lose nevertheless.

yea...........drove to SLC last week................

SHOT show is in Vegas. And Vegas allows smoking in casinos. Cigars and cigarettes everywhere - the smoke stench is horrible. I literally can't stand walking through the casinos anymore, let alone think about sitting at a table watching the casino repeatedly put my money down a little slot in the table.

Just say "NO!"

A coworker used to gamble a lot. He would occasionally brag about how much he won on a particular trip. It was interesting that he never talked about the losing trips.

Nickel, dime, quarter, 3-raise limit is mygame. Maybe I like money hard earned too much?

I once won a bit over $37 cash money on that.

Then there was the night in the remote FS cabin on Big Creek, off Cemetery Ridge on the St. Joe Forest in Idaho. (USFS Trail Crew) ;

I cleaned those suckers, twice!

We each started each round with a full box of the old good Strike Anywhere matches.( Same 5,10, 25 stakes) I couldn't lose! I rode my luck hard that night, once I realized it was in. Filling 2-draw inside straights several times . Two Royal Flushes. Only time ever for even one. If we had had more matches, I would have really cleaned up! As it was I had to refund them each a box to continue the game.

I should have been in Vegas that night.


I think they cheated......I lost maybe a dozen hands all night

No

As a matter of habit, no. Last time I played was 11 years ago in Vegas. Played blackjack for about an hour betting the minimum at the lowest table. I ended up breaking even and that will be enough for me until the next time I go to Vegas. No trip planned at this time.

Never, I passed third grade math.

My wife and I have gone once 2 years ago for about an hour and between us came out about $300 ahead. Haven't been back since. It's just not something that interests me.

My Father-in-law died about 20 years ago, too young. My Mother-in-law will never re-marry, but for the last 10-12 years has been had a steady boy friend who is also a widower. They are good company for each other and travel a lot. William loves to gamble and has a pretty good system. He goes enough to get free room vouchers at casinos all over, they get to Vegas about once a year, but Mississippi and NC pretty regularly. They only go when the room is free and often the food is as well. But that is 8-10 times a year. He calculates how much it would cost him for the room and is willing to lose up to that amount then he quits. Most trips he comes home with less than he had, but is disciplined enough to not lose too much. Some trips he does pretty well.

Two years ago he had an extra voucher for a room he had to use or lose so my wife and I joined them in Cherokee NC. We each got a voucher for $50 to gamble since it was our first time. When I used up my $50 on slot machines I was $90 ahead. I stopped and cashed out for $90. My wife did the same thing but was ahead just over $200.

I've often wondered if the system was rigged for beginners to win a small amount just to get us hooked to come back.

Well, there is the math $ (see my above post,) and then there is the game. Do not gamble/bet what one is uncomfortable losing. Then quit that session. And be sensible about that.

In Winnemucca my brother took me out to lunch at a slot place. While we ate, I watched guys on their lunch hour come in and immediately hit the slots, waitresses coming up to get their order and deliver it at the slot.


Those guys have a problem....

Afterward, my wife asked me how much I lost.

I thought she knew I was too cheap to go that route....

Same here. Every farmer is a gambler, but not every gambler is a farmer.

Did that make sense?

Back when the gulf coast of Mississippi got their casinos i took one of my brothers to play around.

He plays quarter craps and i did the slots.
I got done upstairs and went to watch him play some.
While sitting there i started playing on 3 machines at once.
When he had lost all of his money we had to get some of the floor help to get all of the quart containers of quarters to the tellers.

It was enough to pay for the trip down and back with expenses paid while there.
Got home with about 2500,00.
Have been some more over the years and won enough to play for quite a while.

I always start with seed money,then when you have won enough to cover that put it away then play on the house.
I only do it with money that we can afford to loose.

It's a good way to watch folks for fun and have a good time yourself.

Gambling addiction is a pretty big thing. Many people are susceptible including people that are in the industry. I know only 1 pro gambler and he is very successful over a 30 year period. He only plays card games, mainly Gin, Poker and bridge and mainly in private games, many on cruises. He is very disciplined and very smart.

Isn''t gambling risky? Not the way I do it. W.C. Fields.



mike r

Back in my college days, we had a "club" of poker players.
I won $38 playing penny-ante poker one night.
While the big winner that night, the money just seemed to change hands over time - win this week, lose the next.
Mostly we "lost money" on the beer we all drank!

My best win was 18k playing blackjack at the plaza in vegas. Started with 200 bucks.

A well known acquaintance of mine got the bug pretty bad and ended up in the klink for three years for embezzlement trying to pay the debts and accquire more funds to maintain the habit.

Me? I can take it or leave it.

I've seen too many guys throw away an amount money that would solve a lot of mine own problems.

I think gambling is stupid. And that's coming from someone with family in the Vegas game, floor boss. He liked gambling, was a pretty good blackjack player and counter, enjoyed the nightlife and a little bit of the mob sleaze, taught me how to break even and when to walk away. So I like blackjack, a little, but that's absolutely it.
I think it's all right to have Vegas, or major casino centers, but the "casino" on every effing corner, with the rusted-out cars parked out front at all hours, it's just pathetic. I find out someone routinely gambles, like more than once a year on vacation, I pretty much minimize my involvement with them. Too stupid for me.

One of my co-workers is an addict. One year during tax season he was bragging to me that he was paying taxes on over $16K worth of jackpots. Next sentence he tells me he is still in the red for the year. I said "so your paying taxes on over $16K worth of money that you really never even gained?" By the look on his face I gathered he had never thought of it like that before.

BIL is or was (not really sure which) an addict. He's done some crazy schit to feed it.

I used to play hold em at the casino while in college, won some lost some but not much either way.

Never picked it up.

Used to go with my mother to bingo. She pimped me out to watch a batch of her cards often. I hated that crap. Shriveled up old ass bitchy people smoking like chimneys. I used to conjure up thoughts of rolling a couple of hand grenades in that place. 😄


Old ass mofos used to yell at me "SHUT THE HELL UP" Hahaha. I was only about 10 - 11 years old.


My other won a $2500 jackpot one night. 300 old people wanted to give her a beatin. Lmao. The guy at the cash window said, I walk you and the boy to the car and yall need to get the hell outta here. 😄

Mom wanted to keep playing

Every fuggin day is a gamble.

Sometimes..not too often...

What are those things, PA?

Money

A pile of those scratch off thingies falls out of the passenger side floorboard on renegade50's truck whenever we go somewhere.

I swear the man could wallpaper a gymnasium with his rubbed off tickets. Between that and the guy smokin 3 packs of ciggs a day, he's a time bomb.

Eyeball course in LV many years ago. I won $70 and IIRC my wife won about $200 on BJ. Hell, i can play BJ.

Several years later we go to Reno for a HS Principals educational seminar.

We go that PM and i get 5 $20s to play BJ. Played at 3 freaking tables and never won a hand. I wasnt even fun entertainment getting screwed.

Id post a schitload more and a helluva lot of slips from Charles Town in WV, but I think you get the picture...lol

The guy next to me the other night won $38,000 on 4 aces. I got $100 envy payout for playing cards at that table. Last night I played a few quick hands before our reservation and won about $300 which payed for 3/4’s of our dinner. I like playing cards but don’t do it much anymore.

We’re taking the kids to Vegas for a couple days since they’ve never been and I don’t plan on playing cards much if at all.

If 300 paid for 3/4 your dinner, you ate too dayom much.

^^^This^^^. I’ve lost plenty farming cotton. 🤠

I did go to OK once with some friends to the Comanche Casino. I won $100 on the penny slot machine after playing all fuggin night. Hated it !

Cards I was never lucky at. Lost my ass twice and said never again. Hell, its been a couple months since I did slots. We lose eventually. I stick to scratch offs now. Usually 4 a paycheck. Most times $20 tickets, sometimes its $30 tickets. Lower denominations suck for me.

Your so full of schit you need a septic tank insted of a stomach dude.....


Hahahaha!!!!!







Later.......

Some days its tough just gettin up, throwin on these boots and makin that climb

I go to the casino most weekends, unless it's during hunting season. The only game I play is Texas Hold em. That way, I'm not playing against the house, just the other players at the table. Granted, this is not against professionals, just the locals. I win some, lose some, but I usually come out ahead. My winnings are what I use to buy guns.

G23

Practically every time I've been in stores that sell the scratch-off lottery tickets and seen people cashing in winning lottery tickets, nearly everyone turns right around and uses most if not all their winnings to buy more lottery tickets right then. Some of those scratch-off games cost $20 a ticket now.

I grew up around gambling, mostly poker and craps. What good times there were, were never good enough to offset all the bad ones. Saw many more consistent losers time after time than winners. Seen them lose their entire paycheck before going home stone cold broke and wondering how they were going to take care of their families and pay due bills until next payday. They would always be back, though. Maybe not their next payday but another one soon after. This was all illegal home and back room gambling, and the majority was crooked, too.

I learned early on that gambling wasn't for me.

Hell No! if I spend money, there's something sitting there to see for it.

I went to a cement convection in Vegas about 20 years ago—it was a free trip through my employer. I sat down with $200 in my pocket at a Black Jack table—walked away with $5400 about 4 hours later.
What is it with all the free shi$$ in Vegas? The more you win the more free stuff the pit boss keeps giving you—show vouchers, food vouchers—free booze etc. For 2 years after i got home i would get an invite from the Rio to return with free room and airline ticket.
I can’t go back, you can’t be that lucky twice and I know it.\

I had to go into the local Casino to pick up a friend for a ride home, he wanted to blow a few more bucks on slots so i shoved a $20 into the machine next to his. On the second spin the machine blew up, I thought it had broken. I won $4000. I went straight to the bank and then drove straight home—don’t know what happened to my buddy—he still sittin there for all i know. Don’t feel i can ever set foot in there again either.

Ya might not want to abbreviate blackjack with BJ......

I'm a sucker for a good poker game. Dealer's choice.

Ante up.

Shooting pool or the horse track. Lucky for me no track where I live. I'm willing to bet I'm ahead on pool.

I enjoy black jack. Its a fun evening of entertainment once or twice a year. I usually take a couple hundred and see what happens.

and you hang with him?

Good man!! Beyond the call and all that...

I’m staying at a casino right now for work, weed spraying seminars in the big room where they have concerts. I walked through the slots this evening on my way to the steakhouse and holy sheet, sight straight out of a Slumlord story. 4 old ladies, two in wheelchairs and one on a rascal, all on oxygen playing the penny slots. Fuggin cigarette smoke, lights, and bells going like a Pink Floyd concert in there.

I’m saving my gambling stake for a new suppressor or another pre war S&W.

Saw my uncle piss away his whole life, wife of 33 years, two fine sons, a farm, and a string of houses at the damn Indian casinos. I’m in my 30’s starting over due to an ailing wife and some hard luck with my last couple jobs. He’s in his 60’s starting over weekly because he can’t stay out of the casino. No thanks

Last time I was in Laughlin NV we were there 10 days. and I lost/gambled away $10.

I live in the Vegas valley and I haven't dropped any money in a slot machine in 20 years. Never played a table game.

I drive somewhere every day so I am gambling my life.

How’d you quit it Sam?

No

A man that worked the same place that I did, but on a different crew, His wife had a bad car accident, and there was a large settlement. He quit work to take care of Her, but got to going to the casino's in Mississippi. Somewhere around 3 years later, He was back at work, broke and divorced. All that He talked about was the big jackpots that He won, but never a word about losing. miles

A few years ago, Arkansas started having the lottery. One evening after work, another crew was coming in and the workers asked if they could stop and get some scratch offs. Crew chief told the yes, but you have to scratch them off before you get back in the truck. I don't want all that loser dust in my truck. miles

Even if I wanted to be an addict, I wouldn't have the money

I take chances farming.

From age 21 to age 26 I worked as the advertising and promotion assistant to the original Primadonna Casino in Reno and reported directly to Ernie Primm and handed him the daily all-games averages.

I Guarantee that NOBODY ever wins in the long run, and almost everyone looses in the short run.

As just said, you can't beat the house.

this is as well as anyone could state the issue.

T H I S !!


...as long as it's not a garbage bag full of losing KENO tickets. KENO has a 25% win for the house built into the odds/pay.

If I wanted to gamble, hell I'd go big, dryland farming in southern Kansas wheat,-sorghum- fallow. Maybe shoot the moon and run a few cows.

Every time I go through the Little Ceasar's drive-thru. Will this pizza have an afro hair coiled up in it? Only the fickle hand of fate can know.

2 cent slots and free beer.

Some people claim that the stock market is gambling. But the stock market has a 9% win for the investor (average, long term) built in.

Many years ago I had to go to a company training facility for 6 weeks in Boston. To kill time at night I started to take the subway out to a dog track. I figured out a system that seemed to work for me and stayed with small bets. I consistently came home with 3 to 4 times what I went with and bet. At the end of the 6 weeks I had quite a bankroll of my winnings and figured I would go one more time and step up my game and instead of betting around a $100 I would hit bigger windows and make the same type bets that got me a few thousand ahead. It turned out my "system" was nothing more than a run of good luck and like all good luck it is often followed with bad luck. Lost it all so that was the end of my gambling.

Had my fill of gambling growing up around illegal 'backroom' gambling, mostly poker and craps and almost all of it crooked. Dad had a catalog where you could order all kinds of crooked gambling devices -- factory marked cards, DIY marking supplies to mark other peoples cards during game, different types of 'loaded' dice, crooked punch boards with keys to money winners, etc., etc., etc. Catalog played it off as "Magician" supplies and equipment.

Believe me, when it comes to bigger money private gambling, there is no such thing as friends... seen it WAY too many times.

Who digs up a random 2 yr old thread?


To do list:

Join the 24campfire and post on a 2 year old thread about growing potatoes in tires…..

No, no, no!!!
When I met my wife she had a whopper of a gambling habit. She had been a blackjack dealer, both in AC and Las Vegas (Whiskey Pete's).
Won really big once, before we met, and always expected it to happen 'next time'.

Marrying a non-gambler was the best thing to happen to her. She still has the drive to go, but now it's down to 2 or 3 times a year, rather than her previous weekly trips. Her sister thinks I'm a saint.

As for me - never been burdened with that addiction.

Games of pure chance bore the snot out of me, but games of skill with a strong random component have always been very attractive to me.

I grew up in a household in which everyone played cards. Grandpa and Grandma were extreme Gin Rummy players. Gramps was a shark at the country club. The only person who could beat him was Grandma. That was until Grandpa taught me.

Dad's games were Blackjack and Gin, but he'd never play with us. Dad and a friend had bought the crap table (actually a piece of rug) on the transport going over to Okinawa. That got him a piece of the action. He mailed $2K home to his mother when he got off the boat. He said Grandpa's methods gave him hives. Once I caught on, he wouldn't play with me either. Grandpa's methods were carnivorous and relenting. You walked away feeling like you'd been slowly consumed, but he was such a nice guy you never saw the knife going in.

Mom and I used to play a lot of Russian Bank together. It's a double Solitaire that was played a lot on British warships back during the last war. It demands intense concentration.

When the family was all together, we played either Liar's Dice or some sort of benign Rummy. Mom was the one that clued me into Liar's Dice-- she was always a sleeper in the family. She didn't have the killer instinct, but she knew everyone's tell.

All this was for minimal stakes, but never for just for funsies. If you're going to learn how to win, you need to be able to lose your $.50 weekly allowance to your mother. I'm sure the family made it up to me later, somehow. It taught me to be smart with cards and conservative with my play. Methodists generally don't gamble, but we did. It was a major part of our family interactions.

As a kid, I only got in trouble once. I'd learned craps and set up a game with friends. Pretty soon, it was just the thing everyone did. A few kids went home without their milk money. I didn't skin them, but one of my neighbors did. It ended up in my lap. I was told: no more fleecing the neighbor kids.

Then I went to college and found Backgammon. Yikes. There were about 3 years there where I was totally immersed. The thing with Backgammon is in the doubling cube. The actual game is more of a sideshow. Even if you're playing dime a point, the stakes keep doubling. I started hustling games at the club across the street from the dorm. BTW: alcohol and Backgammon don't mix. It puts a player at a distinct disadvantage. I was a clean, sober kid, so most of the world was childsplay. All that ended one night in 1979. I lost $20 to a bigger shark than me, and I decided that it had been nice, but the fun had to end.

I taught #2 and #3 taught Russian Bank and Gin Rummy as a diversion for boring nights at deer camp. Without any coaxing, they went totally carnivorous on me, and became apex predators. KYHillChick is a lamb. She has no clue of these things, growing up a good Christian girl. Me? I had my fun. The kids brought a new dice game to the farm-- a bit like Yaghtze, but rigged for big plays. It's starting all over again.

Every time I get behind the wheel, or start a conversation with my wife.

Not for me but I have a friend who played the lottery and won 6 million. He retired the next day.

So true. I do not gamble but have a nephew who has been dealing at various casinos for years. For the past 12 years, he's been dealing at the Belagio Casino in Las Vegas. Occasionally he'd come up here to visit me. Several years ago we were talking and I asked him, "Do you gamble?"

He laughed and said, "Hell no. Las Vegas and other casinos are there for one reason and one reason only: to take your money. They'll take mine just as well as they'll take yours." He also told me that over the many years he's been dealing, he's observed that around 80% of the people who come into the casinos to gamble, can not afford to lose. But they play anyway, always on "the will come."

He likes guns, hunting, fine fishing equipment and fishing, skiing, and traveling. He has put away a ton of money in retirement plans and some real estate. Enjoys life and doesn't worry about "the turn of a card or roll of the dice."

L.W.

Occasionally on farts. I win more than I lose.

Other than a few football parlay cards many years ago, I have never been tempted by gambling. Gambling on random football games ruined any enjoyment in watching, except on that rare occasion when I won.

I find card table gambling totally boring.

Win $3600 in Vegas once. First and last time I gambled.... Well not including getting married 3 times🤦🏻‍♂️

Never on cards or slots

Sports yes

yes .....roulette ... i win... drink for free at the right casinos .... one time > i lost 6000bucks going to take a leak , that was from them to me > i had 360 of my own bucks envolved .... a man has to know his limitations .... i will leave it rite there .....

I would just as soon get a roll of quarters from the bank, sit on the curb, and pitch them into a storm drain one at a time than play slots.

No gambling here. Never even married.

My wife and I went out to celebrate our 24 anniversary last week and on the way out I put $10 in the Big Buck Hunter slot machine……on my 2nd spin I won $646. I handed her the pay slip and told her happy anniversary. 👍

I of course snatched it back and gave her $300….I also offered my services for later. I’m good that way, that’s why she loves me so. 😁

A noobie dug this up. First post.



That taters in the old tires thing is gambling with your life. No telling where them tires been, or what's in 'em.

I grow em in beds, on top of clay soil, under 4" of composted chicken Gulag litter. No gambling with Chinese made chemicals in my taters.

Yep, me/wife hit the casino 5-6 times per year for entertainment. Combining gambling with nice dinner, drinks & live music makes for a nice getaway. And always get free rooms. Never gamble more that you willing to lose.

I did win at an online casino, 2.5k, I felt like the luckiest man alive. Played on a site called https://bossaction.com and it was pure luck indeed . I was spending my last days on a work trip and had 40 bucks left which I didn't feel like saving. So, I entered this online casino and opened the first game they had ,,Book of Ra". I accidentally placed the highest bid possible, 40 dollars, and pressed spin. I got the special combination from the first spin and it kept giving me bonuses untill I reached 3k. It was a very pleasant experience.

I don't have enough money to throw it away.

I gamble every week on the golf course. Anywhere from $10-50/hole with a down max of 5 holes. On a normal day I’ll have 10-20 bets worth $500-1k. The total number of bets varies depending on how I’m striking the ball that particular day. All in all I usually break about even for the year. That being said I’m striking the ball VERY well right now and I was up about $3k in September.

Lee Trevino said "Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket."

Ive been in that situation a couple times before lol. He’s right. Nothing like standing over a 5’ par putt with $600 on the line.

Edit: I was a collegiate golfer but was not very strong mentally on the golf course. I actually started betting on my play 4 or 5 years ago as a way to put MORE pressure on myself. I’t has actually made my game better.

I thought this was another McRib thread?

Applying to the Division of Wildlife for my hunting license is always a gamble. I believe this game is rigged.

Eloped in Vegas 30 years ago....still married.

Will buy occasional single lottery ticket if the payout is high enough. No expectations, but fun to think of "what if"....

I never got in to gambling or cards or games of chance. Even as a kid the worst thing that could happen to me was it was raining outside and we was stuck in the house. Mom always pulled out the box with board games and cards. I got scarce when she did that. Usually I went out to the barn to get out of playing that stuff.

You can’t lose if you don’t play

Only after closing big deals at high end steak houses

My money and assets were gained by slow steady accumulation and investing the little in places it had a chance of growing and then growing on top of the growth. I had an old great uncle that died a millionaire when being a millionaire meant something. I listened to him and he told me lots of things such as do not take advice from the unsuccessful, buy land with trees, put your money to work and get the interest to making interest, don't hold out for the top or the bottom of the market sell when it's high enough and buy when it's cheap enough, and he never engaged in gambling games like cards or slots. He was educated to about the 8th grade but he understood arithmetic. He had a country store and bought and sold little houses on credit and operated a usurious payday loan scheme. Interest was $2 a week and the same folks that paid him$12 on Saturday came back and got $10 on Monday. He was not the only uneducated successful old man I watched and learned from as a young person. Not a one of them engaged in gambling games or drank much alcohol.

That said, I look at casino companies and realize that all those buildings, equipment, employees, and most of all stock holders are taking up a huge amount of money. Easy to see where the money comes from and it is not possible to win in the long term. I don't care what anyone says, it ain't happening. Being in a smoke filled gambling hall with half drunk folks in a rigged game is not my idea of entertainment.

Had an acquaintance win either 23 or 26K, (Can't remember which) on a $20 trifecta ticket at a horse race. Making it even more painfully unbearable, was he's an attorney. Fuggin smuck!

Yep, I gambled

Friend and heavy cocaine dealer owed me 100 bucks for a couple of years. One day he shows up with a scratch off ticket worth $100 so I stick it on the fridge with a magnet. Much time had gone by before I saw it again and it had expired. That's my gambling story.

Haha