re: What is your best gambling story: Scared Money Never Wins Edition

Last night of my bachelor party I took all the cash I had left on me ~$800 and sat down at the black jack table at around 2 a.m. The next morning people were calling around looking for me. I had sat at the table all night and needless to say, I was quite intoxicated. I hadn't been paying attention and won $1000 . In my drunken state, I was making much bigger bets than I normally would. Goes to show that you can't have any reservations. You gotta put down money to win money.

Vegas for a bachelor party.

None of my buddies or I are OT ballers or anything, and we were literally playing craps on a laptop on our flight down to learn how to play, but dammit, it was Vegas and we were going to throw some money on the table.

Turned $40 into $200 the first night. Second night turned $40 into about $250.

Sunday afternoon I had to fly home, so we decided to stop and play the $5 table at Circus Circus. This was Labor Day weekend the day after LSU played a depleted North Carolina team that required a miracle to pull off the W. I had a Saints visor on, and a buddy of mine had his LSU polo on. Put $40 on the table, started slow. Had a group of guys across from us that started giving us shite about the Saints and how shitty LSU looked.

And then the bachelor got the dice... An hour and 15 mins later, he relinquished the dice. He started throwing 8,6,8,6,8,9,6,point,8,9,6,8,8,etc. A crowd started forming. One of the guys in our group hit $300 on a snakeyes bet. We had the guys across the table yelling "Who Dat!" The table would cheer everytime we rolled. We made a bunch of money for that table.

They ended up raising the min to $20 before we finally left. The crowd reached the street. There was a round of applause and high fives all around. I turned $40 into $450. I don't know how much the bachelor ended up making, but he was throwing money down pretty good.

By far the coolest gambling moment for me ever. It wasn't a ton of money, but I made enough over the course of 3 days that I paid for all the drinks I bought, dinner at the steakhouse in New York, New York, dinner at Bobby Flays Mesa Grill, and dinner at Texas de Brazil without using my card and still had cash left over.

Put my last $20 on a 50-1 longshot and he came in. I met the owner a few years later and he said they were just in it for the exercise day, and didn't bet on him themselves. The horse just decided to run a big race.

Put a $5 into a wheel of fortune machine to kill time, max bet it, got a free spin and won $1000.

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What is your best gambling story: Scared Money Never Wins Edition

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Is poker considered gambling? I used to earn 2-3k month playing 5 card draw on pokerstars before the us govt stopped me.

Best casino winning story was years ago when I was 19 or so. Was in MS playing craps brought $300 to table. Table was the best craps run I've ever seen - a run they use on TV shows. Turned 300 into over 2k in about 45 minutes. Went out later that night with the dealers and pit bosses.

Mine isn't a great story. Was playing a house game. The game was a match the pot game. One hand I stayed and lost 240. That was a crap load of money while I was in college. The next couple of hand the pot got up to over 900. I stayed again and won and ended up clearing a little over 700. Never played in a game where the money ever got close that kind of money. Freaking heart was pounding and probably peed my pants a little.

My best gambling story involves a fortune cookie that actually helped me once, it was a few years ago while Favre was with Minnesota playing against Dallas in the playoffs. I was set to bet on Dallas to win, but right before I placed a mobile sports bet on the game I opened my fortune cookie at a sushi bar and looked at my fortune. It read: "The color purple will bring you luck." I immediately changed my mind and put $50 on Minnesota instead, sure enough they won.

Group of guys in my neighborhood had a hold'em night. I'd never played, only watched it on TV. Just knew the basic rules of poker. First game was $100 buy in, winner take all.

Got down to "a chip and a chance" many times, but ultimately it got down to me and one other dude. He had 3 of a kind, and thought he'd one. I had to point out to him twice that I had a straight. Walked in with $200, left that table with my same $200 plus $1,000, then, played a few other smaller games/lost another hundred or so.

Felt good walking back home with that stack of cash though.

In Vegas and decided to check out the Hooters Casino with a couple of friends. By the time we walked there my friends had to piss so I put $20 in a $1.00 slot machine and hit the max spin button. I was just trying to be discreet checking out the scenery (which as it turns out is really poor) and the damn machine is making all kinds of racket. I look down and I hit a jackpot for 5000. My buddies come back and the machine is still rattling off credits and we are fired up. I then look down and realize it is a machine that can play .05/.25/$1.00 and sure enough the damn thing was set at $0.05. Thus, I hit a jackpot and walked away pissed off!

On a golf trip where we stayed at The Beau Rivage, I sat down with a buddy at the blackjack table and saw him pull out $700 and he cashed out six hours later for $61,000. They comped 12 rounds of golf at Fallen Oak and all the drinks and cigars we wanted at the course.

Hit a $4000 jackpot the day after my 21st birthday. My dad took me and I put $5 in a slot machine waiting for him to come back from the bathroom. He saw security and thought I was in trouble.

Used to play relatively high stakes blackjack (for a kid in college) at the Belle after bar shifts downtown and made way more money there than I ever made bartending. Did that for 4 years and when I graduated I had enough money for a down payment on a ballin arse house.

Sat at a blackjack table in Vegas with the CEO of Mitsubishi, Phil Mickelson and his wife, and Steven Speilberg. Believe it or not I was the least famous person at the table