[terrapin314]

My 2006 Crazy Casino Story:

In celebration of my 32nd bday, my wife and I head from our home in Ohio to hit a couple of the boats in Indiana. The first night, we go to Belterra for the night.

After playing some 4/8 with the donkeys, I become a little guilty about leaving my wife alone in the casino and go to find her. We play a little blackjack and are ready to head to our room when I tell her that I need to go to the bathroom first. As I walk out of the bathroom, I see an American Beauty slot machine (which I had not seen before). As you may deduce from my name, I am a Deadhead and "American Beauty" is the name of one of their more famous albums. So, I drop a 50 into the dollar machine and 4-5 spins later - the machine locks up. I thought I hit something, but the damn thing jammed up. Then, I realized that I hit for 1200 bucks. They came and gave the W2G that I heard about in the past.

Fast forward to the next night at Caesars Indiana. After playing 6/12 for several hours (and meeting the Jedi Buffet Master-Steam), my wife encouraged me to play some more slots. Caesars has this deal where they reimburse you for your losses up to a 100 dollars if you play for thirty minutes during the first day that you get a players card. I really did not want to play, but I wanted to drink a little more. So, we finally find an open machine (Caesars on a Friday night is pure madness) and I play for about ten minutes and hit a triple-triple-triple for the jackpot of 1875 bucks and yet another W2G. When the guy hand paid me, I asked him, "So, does this mean I won't get my hundred bucks?" and he actually snarled at me. No tip for you, jackass.

It was an odd feeling walking around with >3K in my pockets. I kept feeling like someone was following me.

The ironic thing about all this is that I always laughed at the hollow eyed junkies at the slots...