re: What’s the most valuable thing you’ve won?

Lafourche Loafer koozie

Late 80's while at LSU, one Thursday afternoon Fred's had a guy named Ted St Martin show up. He had made something like 1800 free throws in a row and was the Guinness world record holder.

We watched as this old bald dude and his wife set up this portable hoop and lay down a piece of duct tape for the free throw line. It was $2 a try or some such. You shot 10 free throws and then he would shoot and inevitably beat you. This goes on about an hour and he beats 10-15 dudes who never make more than 5-6 shots.

On the vodka and fresh squeezed OJ scale at the time, I'm at the sweet spot between frick Dinner and Fire up the Enola Gay...literally in the zone. I get up and go ten of ten. I think maybe 2 shots went in cleanly and I shot the third one left handed while taking a sip of my drink. By the 7th-8th shot, I was shitting peach seeds with a hundred plus people on the deck cheering me on.

But, he can still tie (meaning he would win according to the rules). He missed his 2nd shot. To this day, I think he missed on purpose to let me win.

I won a $100 bar tab (gone in a half hour, even with $1 screwdrivers), a tshirt, and a silver coors light basketball he signed. More importantly, I made out with a Phi Mu at the bar that wouldn't have given me the time of day if I hadn't been that "sweaty guy that beat the old man in basketball"

My finest moment by far at LSU. Suck it Ted.

In the first grade I won a german choc cake in a cakewalk. From then on if my mom wanted to do anything dealing with chance, like the lottery, she'd ask me to get her ticket, "cause you are the lucky one". Never won anything else in my life, but it stuck with her.

$300 in a trivia contest in college

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In the first grade I won a german choc cake in a cakewalk.

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That just brought back a core memory. I once went to a Halloween event at a church and they had a cake walk. I won like 3. At the time I thought I was so lucky but with hindsight I realize it was late and they were closing up and clearly needed to get rid of a lot of awful cakes no one else picked. Lol

I was once the WAFB/McDonald's "Color the Weather" t-shirt winner for the night.

My wife and I won a fully payed for trip to Peru where we hiked from Cusco to Aguas Calientes. They even covered airfare. We hiked the fifty miles staying in various mountain lodges along the way. All in the trip would have run us over $20,000.

I won a child during a dice game.

Went to an Astros game, took a chance on the 50/50.

Won $10,055.
Won a bunch of stuff in a trivia game, the question was Tiger Woods real name. I knew it, I was one of the few guys in the room that didn’t play golf.

Oh, Tigers real name, Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods.