I have just turned the “legal” age and plan on soon winning big at the Casino. What’s the most you have ever won?
I won $2,000 at a casino last year playing Bingo. Yahoo!
Zette
I won 50 playing the slots, then another 20 about ten pull later.
I won about $150 playing 5 dollar blackjack.
I won forty-five dollars once. Of course, over the last three years, I’ve probably lost close to five hundred.
My advice- play slot machines at bars. You get drinks comped when you do that. When the value of the alcohol consumed is approximately equal to the amount of money you’ve lost, quit. If you win a bit, tip the bartender.
Give you something to do while you’re having a few drinks.
I won $500 dollars in the first five minutes of my first visit to a casino in Atlantic City.
I went with my SO who two minutes after we stepped in decided he had to go find drinks and use the bathroom. He knows that I have a tendency to wonder off when I see bright flashing lights, so he stuck $5 in a video poker machine for me and told me to “Stay here”.
On my third hand I got a royal flush. I didn’t even know what a royal flush was! It took me awhile to get use to poker because I kept seeing cribbage hands.
He was very surprised when he came back with the drinks and I had 4 buckets of change.
I won $800.00 at Resorts in Atlantic City playing video joker poker. Alas, they took away the 20-8-7-5 machines soon after and replaced them with poor payout machines. I don’t think there are any decent payout video poker machines now anywhere in Atlantic City. If anyone knows otherwise I’d like to here about it. I kind of miss the game.
I won $735 playing quarter slots. It was my first visit to a casino and when the lights went off I didn’t know what it meant and almost pulled the handle again!!! DUH!
I’m gonna go to the casinos in Kansas City Sunday. Hopefully I’ll win some big money!
[my story] I once broke even, which means I won about $300 playing Blackjack for about 10 hours straight. After spending about the same to get to eat in Las Vegas for a day, I figure it was a good weekend. In Reno, I won $150 playing craps the first 10 minutes I was there…lost it all when the table went cold. I won $200 in an Indian casino in Minnesota. In Windsor, Ontario, I was playing blackjack and won about $250, only to lose it right back again.
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My recommendation, based on seeing large winnings come and go, is when you hit it big early, call it a night. Mos tof my biggest winnings have come in the first five or ten minutes through the door, so I don’t want to leave since I just got there, right?! Do it. Take the money and run. Now for some info:
Slots have the worst odds, statistically. It’s something like a 12-17% take for the house versus 0.6% - 4% for most other games. What does this all mean, TS, do tell! Well, it means that for every dollar the casino takes in on a slot, they end up keeping, on average, 12-17 cents of it. That mandated by law, btw. In Atlantic City, I don’t think they have this stipulation, which means the machines never actually have to pay out!
A great book for the beginning gambler, and a good laugh, is Harry Andersons: A Guide for Suckers. Yes, the Harry Anderson from Night Court and occasional appearances on Cheers!, that guy. There are literally thousands of books written on each and every game, but this has a good and often humorous look onto most casino draws and he tells you the odds as well. Good stuff to know.
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$2200 in 4 consecutive evenings on a casino boat (poker/blackjack).
$760 at one pop as part of a bad beat poker jackpot.
Not only are slots generally poor odds, but the money goes through them so much faster than other games. Good for the house; bad for you. In blackjack or other card games, you may get a hand (betting opportunity) every couple of minutes. On a slot machine, it is only a couple of seconds. Oh, the Casinos love slots players.
I once won $200 in Atlantic City playing Blackjack. My wife has won $1000.
Blackjack and Craps offer the best odds of coming out ahead. BJ’s odds are almost 1:1, just slightly better for the house. With a few strategies, you might pull ahead for a while. The trick is to quit while you’re ahead. You can just as easily have an incredibly bad streak of luck and lose it all.
With Craps, you really have to know how to move your bets around. I’m still lost on the game, so I don’t try it.
One weekend, I busted out early while my wife was doing well. She gave me a $5 chip to play with (:rolleyes:), so I cashed it in and started playing nickel (yes, $0.05, not slang for $5) slots. About halfway through playing, I hit a big jackpot. The payoff? $20 in @!#?@! nickels! I cashed out my 450-some nickels and showed them to my wife to get a laugh.
I once spent about 6 hours playing roulette in Vegas. I was up $85 when I left.
The only thing I ever play is roulette. The last time I went, I came out $3200 ahead. When I started to go back to my hotel, they stopped me and gave me a free night there. It was pretty cool. They were also pretty pissed off that I left the next morning without gambling anymore. 
This was in Bosier City by the way, not Vegas.
I once blew through $50 in about an hour on the nickel slots on a riverboat in St. Louis. Then I just sort-of wandered around and watched other players for a while. Lo and behold, I saw a nickel token that someone had forgotten, lying in one of the little wells (what do they call them, anyway). Just for kicks, I put it in and pulled the handle. Hit the jackpot and won back my $50.
Since Knowone is mentioning this!
You just turned legal to gamble? You believe you have the cahunnas to beat the system? Think it’s the funnest thing this side of paradise?
wrong Wrong WRONG! You’ll lose your ass pal. Knobody ever wins in gaming, or gaming establishments. How the Hell do you think they make money. They make it by everyone and their brother losing their shirts, that’s how.
If you walk in their thinking, ‘Hey, I can make rent here. I’m never gonna lose. I remember those people on the board telling me how much they’ve won. Hmm. WOW!!!’. Think again. Did it ever occur to you that you never hear about the amount of money people have lost at the casino on T.V. or the paper? You only here about the fantastic winners, and not that often, I might add.
I’m not a anti-gambling freak, to each their own. But I remember that age and the excitement I felt walking into a casino. I didn’t feel so hot when I walked out. I honestly thought I couldn’t blow $650.00(Rent) in that short amount of time without coming out ahead. Assholes even had cash machines strategically placed around the floor. Real pisser.
Lucky, or unlucky, for me, I’ve lost every time I’ve gone to the casino. Good because I’ll never lose money in that sham again. I can’t stand casinos. Unlucky because I do like to gamble. But the odds have got to be better than the casino.
Horseracing. Now there’s something I can bet and have fun participating in. You actually have a chance if you research and check the stats out. Poker? You bet. You have some beers and B.S. with your friends. We used to have a poker game each Wednesday. I’ve lost my ass there too, but it was funner than staring at a screen while my money gets sucked out of my pocket.
Enough with my rant. If your going to play, plan on losing all the money you bring with you. Leave your CC cards and cash cards at home. Take what you can lose comfortably. You will.
Enjoy, Chris.
$150 on nickle slots
$200 on $5 blackjack
I had a buddy once who one $3500 on roulette
A little bitter aren’t we Cnote? For the record, I’ve been gambling numerous times and have always come out well ahead. I’m not saying that you’re going to win, but it is possible. The biggest problem I’ve seen is knowing when to quit. Go in with a set amount you’re willing to lose. Once that’s gone, quit. Many people believe that since they won the money, they have to use it. You don’t. That money is yours and you can walk away whenever you like. Always remember that if you play long enough, you WILL lose. Just know when to get up and walk away, and don’t spend money you don’t have or aren’t really willing to lose.
My ex-inlaws got me bitten by the gambling bug.
One weekend I hit the big jackpot on a quarter slot machine – 5,000 quarters ($1,250).
The next weekend, went back to the same casino and hit AGAIN – $1,199 on a dollar slot machine.
And, over the history of all my gambling, I’m sure I’m still in the red. Save your money, or buy stuff with it.
$100.
I put a $100 bill on red, next thing I knew, I doubled it. It was quite exhilerating.
Aglarond–
Uhh, Ya. Kind of.
I had read the O.P. and saw his/her enthusiasm behind it. It reminded me of my first casino visit. As bizarre as it sounds, I had no idea I could lose that much money that fast. I had always heard, ‘It’s a blast. Check it out’. I lost my ass and felt lower than low.
Your advice echoes mine. Go in with a set amount to have ‘fun’ with, and don’t get too upset if you walk away with nothing.
In retrospect, I was a bit snippy this morning. But hey! At that hour of the morning, I’d bitch at a sunny day.
I won close to $100 once. Of course, this was just in gambling money–not counting expenses or anything like that.
I actually have had good luck with baseball parlays, where you bet three games (I think I won two of the five times I played). But as I understand it, they’re terrible bets.
I play blackjack and poker slots. Never win with the slots. I’ve won occasionally in blackjack, but I also can lose quickly at it, too.