# Your Greatest Gambling Moments **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 28, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-gambling-moments/511884 "2009-09-28T19:52:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-gambling-moments/511884/21 "2009-09-30T13:25:35Z")
I won $11.90 on a $2 bet on the very first horse race I ever bet on. Not much of a win, I’ll grant you; but then again, I was all of 12 years old at the time. ---
**Author:** ![VanLandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@VanLandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanLandry)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-gambling-moments/511884/22 "2009-09-30T13:45:22Z")
I need to head down to my local social club tonight… I had 12 correct picks in this weeks football pick 'em pool and that could be enough to win $50. My best real gambling win was either winning $350 in a single $1/$2 no-limit hand at foxwoods(flopped a full house) or winning $850 online by beating out 1500 others in a $3 buy in no-limit tourney. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-gambling-moments/511884/23 "2009-09-30T14:14:15Z")
I always wanted to play poker in Vegas (low stakes - just for the atmosphere). I entered several tournaments, then finally won a two table event. It was only $350, but it felt like a World Series! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-gambling-moments/511884/24 "2009-09-30T20:50:41Z")
> [@KennerTheGreat](#): > > I won $11.90 on a $2 bet on the very first horse race I ever bet on. Not much of a win, I’ll grant you; but then again, I was all of 12 years old at the time. In 1974, my dad took me to Roosevelt Raceway (R.I.P.) on Long island and bet my picks for me. I figured out how to read the program, made my picks,and wound up picking 2 trifectas and a quinella on the card. We won $450. I was eight. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-gambling-moments/511884/25 "2009-10-01T02:37:52Z")
Many years ago I was drug by my mother and grandmother to a bingo hall. I didn’t have much money at the time and bought a few cards to play. The big game that night was a 48 ball blackout game to win a new 1982 Chevy Cavalier. I bought 2 cards for the game. On ball number 42 I had all but B1 to win. Ball 48 was B1. I had one problem though. To take delivery of the car, I needed to come up with about $1200 for taxes and license fees. I made a deal with the dealer to get $2000 under the table and he got an already paid for new car to sell meaning 100% profit for him. I put all but $200 into my bank account, 2 days later the state took the other $1800 for back child support. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-gambling-moments/511884/26 "2009-10-06T02:20:43Z")
I got a Royal Straight Flush (in Spades) playing Texas Hold 'Em on my Blackberry yesterday. Needless to say I won the hand. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-gambling-moments/511884/27 "2009-10-06T03:51:31Z")
tonight… the Vikings hold on to cover the -3.5 point spread and I win my weekly pick-em league with a higher point total (47) than the next guy (45)… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-gambling-moments/511884.md?page=1)