What's the most you gamblers have ever made from a single jackpot?

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I have been tempted to gamble lately. I only gambled once before shortly after moving to New Orleans and won $1200.00. Before that I'd never so much as bought a lottery ticket. I'm afraid to gamble again because I'm sure I'll lose and will thus feel abandoned by God, who obviously smiled on me for some reason that night.

And the question is the most you made IN A SINGLE JACKPOT, not over the course of a whole night or whatever ....

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 7 September 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

At Lone Star Park, I hit a $1500 trifecta (for a $2 bet), about two years ago.

Other than that, I've hit $350 on a $10 roulette bet a few times.

The year the casinos in Shreveport opened, my grandmother hit a slot machine for $12,000. That's the biggest jackpot by anyone I've met.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 7 September 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ten bucks on a scratch ticket. Booyah.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 7 September 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

That $1500 just about makes me even for all the times I've been to the track, including beer and snacks.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 7 September 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

250 tickets (if I recall right) at Circus Circus in Vegas. Got a bunch of stuffed animals. It was great.

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 7 September 2003 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The very first time I ever visited Las Vegas, I went there on a total whim. The only reason I went is because this buddy of mine works for a sports talk radio station as an engineer, and every year they travel out there to do a remote broadcast for March Madness (college basketball tournament). One year, for the fuck of it, I decided to tag along - crashing in my friend's room (paid for by the station).

The first two nights there, I barely hit the tables at all. I was more interested in watching (and wagering) on the basketball; but more importantly, I didn't know how to play any of these daunting games!

The last night, I watched as my friend skillfully played craps, trying hard to take in this most confusing of games. Finally, I decided to join in. I started with about a hundred bucks in chips - this was a $5 table - totally expecting to lose it all, but wanting a little action.

I was basically mimicking my friends moves at first, until I had built up a little stash of chips. Then, this totally cliched Japanese gambler character starts to roll. And he could not roll a seven! I mean, it was unbelievable!! I upped my pass line bet to $25. This guy would roll and roll and roll. This guy would establish every point, and I'd back 'em all up with full odds. And then, one by one, he'd pick 'em all off. The money was rolling in .. it was un-fucking-believable. A once in a lifetime occurrence. About a half-hour later, he finally rolls a seven, and I walked away from the table with about $2000.

I totally got bitten by the gambling bug after that. In fact, I've returned to Vegas just about every March since then. But I've never, never had another experience like that.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 7 September 2003 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

$140 bucks at bingo.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 7 September 2003 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

$55.20 at the Kentucky Derby on a $4 win bet

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 7 September 2003 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Gambling is for suckers, kids. JUST SAY NO.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 7 September 2003 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

£210 on one of the Irish Grade A races... Aye Aye Popeye, 20/1. Only bet on him because of the jockey.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 7 September 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

£650 on a football bet - liverpool v celtic friendly a few years ago

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 7 September 2003 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i once got ten shillings out of a fruit machine on a cross-channel ferry — it was for nothing as someone had forgotten their second go, but mum and dad made me give half to my sister ):(

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 7 September 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Dostoyevski won't be posting on this thread :(

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 7 September 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

We won a fiver yesterday on predicting the number of goals and number of bookings in the Scotland v Faroes game for a 50p stake. We also won about 70p for Neil McCann scoring. This is not exactly big stakes stuff though. I don't have the money to gamble properly.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 September 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

$630 on a $20 boxed exacta at the Preakness this May.

― hstencil, Sunday, 7 September 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

$130 Australian Dollars at the Crown Casino in Melbourne... playing the Dolphin Treasure game

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 7 September 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

17 euro in poker,playing with friends
i'd never gambled before i started playing poker a few weeks ago,i can certainly see the appeal
poker in particular is an excellent game,i don't know how to play any of the others though

― robin (robin), Sunday, 7 September 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

horse racing/otb is not legal in my state. :( My dad loves going to the track, I think he won two grand recently. He's lucky and it runs in the family. :) I have a casino abt 20 miles down the road but I've only been once. My b/f's dad had a gambling prob and lost a quarter of a mil in the 80s before kicking the habit, so I feel squeamish about asking my boy if he wants to go gambling, seing as it's the source of a lot of childhood ickiness for him. But for me my dad was able to put food on the table from smart bets and pool hustling; funny world!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 September 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

About 25 quid on the World Cup, I think.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

$350 at Bingo when I was 10. All I could think to buy was a Swatch, and I did!

― Aaron A., Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

lost a quarter of a million?!?!?!?!?!

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 7 September 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

he embezzled from his company, bad news.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 September 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

$2700 on the slots in a rinky-dink casino somewhere in the dust fields of North-Central Nevada.

My father can't gamble at the larger casinos in Reno anymore ... he plays (or played) high-stakes 21 and counts (counted) cards. Pisses me off. I refuse to play any games with him now. Anyway, now he and I go and play the slots and hit some of the other tables, but no 21. *sigh*

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 8 September 2003 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i've never been to a casino, but i won $10 in the lottery on friday! yay!

― sand.y, Monday, 8 September 2003 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Long story short. Teaching my roomate how to play a VLT, I drunkly hit max bet ($2.50 I think it was) got a full house, then won on a double or nothing, followed by about a 25 bet two or three hands later that came back a royal flush with no jokers. I cashed out about 256 and change right after that one.
On Friday I won 80 bucks on slots. Hurrah for legalized gambling.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 8 September 2003 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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