Just wanted to share my good fortune-
I won $2,000 today at high stakes bingo at Turning Stone Casino in NY. Let the good times roll!!!
Zette
“If I had to live your life, I’d be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror.” - android209 (in the Pit)
Zettecity
Voted “Most Empathetic”- can you believe that?
Cool, but don’t play again, the odds of winning are about the same as not playing.
Congrats, Zette! Hope I do that well on my lottery numbers tonight. (Though the 150 million would be even nicer.)
Now with 1000 posts of pure wisdom!
(or something)
I’m sending you lucky vibs, Mr. Know it All!
Zette
“If I had to live your life, I’d be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror.” - android209 (in the Pit)
Zettecity
Voted “Most Empathetic”- can you believe that?
Allright!!!
Where are we going tonight, Zette?
Excellent…when will the check for my cut arrive in the mail? Oh, you meant “share” in a figurative way. Well, that’s, um, almost as good…I guess. Congrats!
Sweetness, Zette!
Now you can go on that business trip to Florida, and make some time to come visit me, right?
or you could donate it to my speech team to cover the cost of the damage on the rental car I was forced to drive from Boston to Binghamton in ungodly weather . . .
I hate mother nature . . .
Mayor of Snerdville, the home of Mortimer Snerd
“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight
Way to go Zette girl… beers on you!!
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
Congrats, Zette! Damned if it isn’t fine when fortune smiles on good people!
Enjoy your windfall!
Veb
Good for you Zette!
But, I have a slight hijack…
I played the California Lotto tonight… Jackpot a measly $10 mil… and I won $5!!!
The most rewarding part was when I got my money!
-Dr. Nick Riviera
Can I tell the story of how it happened??
Indulge me please…and lots of “Ooohs and Ahhhs”, OK?
OK, Turning Stone casino has electronic dauber bingo. This means instead of all those stupid paper sheets that you have to look all over and stamp for each number, you have a hand held game looking thing.
(see link for a picture) http://www.turning-stone.com/flyers/bingo-1999-12a.html
They load in all the games you pay for, and each game you just tell it what number they called and it shows you your best card. It even tells you when you’re one away and if you have a bingo. While at first I thought you’de have to be a real lasy ass to use this thing, I changed my tune after playing there just once. The weird patterns they want you to make and the speed that they call at make it impossible to follow (for me).
OK, so we’re playing the last two games of the day. The first is some weird ass pattern, and someone else bingos (up to this point, the most money I heard them give away was $1000) I went to continue on to the full coverage game and screwed up my machine. It fiddled with it for a minute or so, then figured “Ahh, screw it. I’ll just call it a day and go grab a bite to eat”. Then, using my incredible technical skills (putting the right game number in) I was able to re-enter all the numbers that had been called. (there were LOTS of them, and I was very unsure of how accurately I got them entered).
When I was done, I was one away. They called it next.
Sooooo I yell “Bingo!!!”. And NO ONE ELSE DOES! (If more then one person gets a bingo, you have to split the money with them). Everyone groans and packs up for the day, and I tell them not to leave too fast, as I don’t think I put those numbers in right. They took away my machine and I waited, feeling embarassed that I likely screwed up and everyone would soon know.
Instead, they came back and told me I won $2,000 dollars- the big jackpot of the day!
I screamed, I jumped up and down, I ran around like a lap dog on crack. They brought over my money- all $100 and $50 bills. Counted it out for me. I was shaking like a leaf. I ran out and called my husband, who asked how I did. (I went up by myself). I told him I had fun- and guess what?? Some lady at my table won a $2,000 jackpot! He said “Oh, good for her!”. Then I told him it was me, and he didn’t believe me. It took some convincing, but pretty soon he finally did.
Then I drove home and we went out to eat and I ate my weight in seafood (lobster, shrimp and crablegs)
It was every bit as exciting as I ever could have hoped. I’m still grinning.
“If I had to live your life, I’d be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror.” - android209 (in the Pit)
Zettecity
Voted “Most Empathetic”- can you believe that?
I tried to play bingo locally. Pretty big cash prizes. But:
Congratulations Zette!
I’ve spent a little time wandering around the Turning Stone Casino. My work has occasional business with Rome Labs, an Air Force facility in (wait for it…) Rome, NY. Hotel accommodations in Rome are less than stellar so we usually book into the casino. It’s new and relatively inexpensive (none of those nasty state and local taxes!) and closer than Syracuse.
I’ve never done any casino gambling so I don’t know how to play any of the games. The only one I could figure out was Keno and the odds were so bad I decided to keep my money. The fellow I was travelling with (on both occasions) shared with me his “system” for winning at craps, but in spite of all his protestations to the contrary it just boiled down to double your money when you lose, which is a losing strategy in the long run.
The first time I went there my only goal was not to appear to be some rube who just fell off the turnip truck. So I went down to the casino and promptly walked into the pit area of the craps table. The pit boss yells out “Player in the pit!” and everybody looks at me. Slowly it dawns on me that I’ve done something, uh, rube-like, so to speak. I try to remedy the situation by walking further into the pit area! They had to actually point out to me where I could stand and where I couldn’t. I climbed back on the turnip truck and stayed away for a while.
I expect I’ll be visiting there again sometime. I try to arrange so the visits don’t occur in the winter months but there’s a conference in June or July. Maybe I can meet some of you central NY dopers next time. I’ll show you where to stand in the casino!
“Cheddar?”
“We don’t get much call for that around here, Sir.”
Oneida? Interesting coincidence.
btw, I neglected to say it in my previous post, but congratualations Zette!
Mayor of Snerdville, the home of Mortimer Snerd
“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight
Congratulations, Zette!
I’ve only been to one casino in my life (on the Mohawk reservation near Massena, NY), so I don’t have much to compare it to, but I was wondering how you liked Turning Stone, overall.
My husband and I live near Albany and frequently travel to Syracuse and Rochester to visit family, so nary a trip goes by without him wimpering like a puppy when he sees the exit for the casino. But, if it’s worth it to go, maybe I’ll give in one of these days.
Mt. Dew habit kicked since 2/21/00!
Yeah for Zette!
Great fortune Zette.
Zette, that’s a pretty good story, especially the part about re-entering all those numbers correctly. You earned those $2000! Good job.
P.S. Come on, admit it, are you the poster that’s been masquerading as Cupid?
Good for you Zette. Let the good times roll.
I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.