# Have You Ever Won A Large Amount Of Money Gambling (Or Through Store Promotions Or Whatever)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859 "2015-02-28T16:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/21 "2015-03-03T17:14:40Z")
When I was pregnant with TheKid I went to play bingo - spent about $25, came home with over $800. There have been many “paid myself back” bingo sessions. When online poker paid for real, I ended up cashing out $400 over about a year of play. Considering I had never played prior, I was happy with that. Won $500 on a scratch off a few years ago. So nothing HUGE. My best friend and her husband always come out ahead. We were playing pull tabs one night - I won a few bucks. Her husband bought one. One. Won $1000. She also won that night, I think around $500. They were kind enough to share. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/22 "2015-03-03T18:42:08Z")
Before they closed the casinos in Jakarta way back when, I won over a million rupiah one night. At the exchange for that time, it was over $1600 US. Biggest win I’ve ever had. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/23 "2015-03-04T02:33:58Z")
Won a new car playing bingo back in the early 80’s. Didn’t have the $1300 for taxes and license at the time so the dealer bought the car back for $1800, about half what it was worth at the time (1983 Chevy Cavalier). Won $1600 at an Indian casino on one $3 spin. Hit something that gave me 10 free spins and won that 4 more times with the free spins. Sat for 25 minutes while the game ran till the free spins were done. Cashed out and left. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/24 "2015-03-04T03:37:38Z")
I won a brand new Chevy at a 4th of July raffle, with a 25c ticket drawing. My folks never drove a car and I was only 11 so Dad sold it the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/25 "2015-03-04T10:48:50Z")
Won $10,000 on a treble at the trots about 25 years ago (well I got half as I was betting with a friend). About 3 years ago I took a quadrella (picking four winning horses in four selected races). I had three horses in the last leg and the one I had going for $48,000 in the last leg (previous three legs had won) was beaten by a short half head. About an inch. I still weep at that. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/26 "2015-03-04T14:31:12Z")
No. [Gambler’s Fallacy] 'Hey…! I must be due!" [/Gambler’s Fallacy] ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/27 "2015-03-04T15:38:38Z")
I fed $20 into a nickel machine (“Dean Martin’s Wild Party”) at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls one time and long story short cashed out $499.50. Paid off the Disney Marathon vacation I had a couple weeks previous. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/28 "2015-03-04T15:46:28Z")
I won I think $300 on one roulette spin on my first try in Vegas. It was gone into the video poker machines within a day. ---
**Author:** ![kareen21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@kareen21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kareen21)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/29 "2015-03-04T16:11:39Z")
I won a smartphone from a sponsored company. I’m very happy and feels like a lucky man in the world… haha ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/30 "2015-03-04T19:26:11Z")
Not me, but my Dad hit a hole in one at a golf tournament and won a $30,000 MSRP car. He didn’t need the car, but negotiated with the sponsoring dealership and got $25,000 in cash instead. ---
**Author:** ![yo\_han\_go](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yo_han_go/32/130_2.png) [@yo\_han\_go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yo_han_go)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/31 "2015-03-05T11:58:40Z")
20y ago I’ve got to the finale of the pop quiz show on local tv. Won HiFi, TV, Samsonite ~200$ coupon and a trip to the Baleares. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/32 "2015-03-05T13:22:38Z")
I won $200 on a stocking stuffer scratch off one Christmas. I can’t retire but it was nice 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/33 "2015-03-05T15:03:56Z")
I once was playing quarter slots at Caesar’s in Atlantic City and won about $250 … only to keep playing idly and then hit a jackpot and won $2500 about 15-20 minutes later. Then I walked out of the casino shortly thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![MrsTime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@MrsTime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsTime)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/34 "2015-03-05T16:59:01Z")
I won a couple of hundred in a casino in Colorado, once. $100.00 once on a scratch ticket here in BC. Since I have never been very lucky when gambling (other than my choice of a husband) I don’t go to casinos very often. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/35 "2015-03-05T23:37:44Z")
25,000 euro on the european cup qualifiers. I picked Turkey, England, Russia and spain to progress to the next round. I wanted to pick also France and Italy but they were very short odds and guessing that the odds of selecting six correct results was vey low I skipped them. Had I included them I would have won about 175k:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859/36 "2015-03-06T00:20:53Z")
I won $1,000 on a TV show once, but had hoped to win $1,000,000. A few years ago I played in a few low-stakes house poker games and won money each time, netting almost $200, but I felt kind of guilty and stopped playing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-won-a-large-amount-of-money-gambling-or-through-store-promotions-or-whatever/713859.md?page=1)