Any crazy casino gambling stories? (non poker)

[Scorcho]

I was in Reno in '04 and playing a 25 line penny machine at 2 pennies/line just pushing the button repeatedly trying to kill time while I waited for my friends to come to dinner. On a .50 spin, I hit a jackpot for 132,650 pennies. lol Thankfully they gave me cash and not that many pennies.

A couple weeks later I'm in Atlantic City and I'm so drunk I can barely stand up. I end up leaning against a $10 craps table (I usually only play nickel tables) and buy-in for $100. I woke up in my hotel room with $1200 in my pocket and I really don't remember it.

And one other time, I had just gotten my ass kicked at a local indian casino and was walking to my car when I turned the corner and as soon as I stepped next to this lady she lets out a loud yelp. She had just hit $100k+ on a dollar slot the second I stepped foot near her. Insult to my injury.

[DeuceKicker]

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I woke up in my hotel room with $1200 in my pocket and I really don't remember it.

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Generally, when that happens you should check for anal bleeding.

[BKyef]

A little over a year ago at the Taj's USPC I had just busted out of the $500 NL event and was at the bottom of my bankroll. (still had money, but my bankroll is kept seperate) So in a state of shock over getting 2 outed close to the bubble of a good size tourney, and ready to quit poker I wonder out into the pits. I sit at a .25 video poker machine and drop what is close to my last $20 in. I play three hands and hit a royal for $1000. I decide I need to even out the money in there so I'm not cashing out $1016 (OCD). I attempt to play it off to $1000 even and hit a flush, then a straight, then a boat, and then quads twice in a row! SO now with close to $2,000 at hand I go back to the poker room. I win a single table sattelite for the $1000 tourney and chop another one for another $500. I play a 15/30 LHE session and pick up another $900. Now I'm dizzy and exausted from the rush. I run into a friend who wants to have a drink and chill out so we sit down at 3 card poker and order some beers. In an hour there I go straight, straight, flush, he then hits 3 of a kind and on the next hand I get a straight flush. Off we go for sushi and saki.

All told after being ready to throw in the towel with a $20 bankroll I'm walking home with $4000 cash and $1500 in tournament entries.

[Rate My]

In 2005 the Angels were at home vs. the worst team in the majors, the Royals. The soon to be Cy Young winner Bartolo Colon was pitching against the 2-6 Runelvys Hernadez. I thought this was about as much of a gimme as I could find so I layed the run and a half. The Angels came out swinging and had a 7-2 lead at the end of the 7th. The Angels had one of the better bullpens in the majors so I wasnt too worried. What transpired next was awful like Blazers drafting Sam Bowie awful. Colon was mowing down batters for the first seven innings, then he gave up two runs and got pulled. OK, Im still up 7-4 and we are heading into the 9th. Scot Shields comes in to close the door and gets the first two guys out. The next two batters then single and double to put guys on second and third. He then gives up a two run single to Tony Graffanino to make the score 7-6. Shields then strikes out the last batter to close the game and blow the cover for me. Thats right, I got backdoor covered because the Angels gave up 4 runs in the last two innings to the worst team in baseball. Note: Tony Graffanio went 5 for 5 with 3 rbis for the Royals this day. Thats right, a guy who is as much of a journeyman as Mike Morgan ended up pretending that he was Ted Williams for a day.

[dcasper70]

Danger, impending run-on sentence...
Did anyone see the news story about 3 months back about a guy who hit a big jackpot on a scratch ticket, then a local news crew asked him to re-enact the purchase and scratching for them and he hit another jackpot as they filmed him?

I can't seem to google the video, but if someone finds it, please post. Pretty cool...

[BrunoThePug]

This happened in the summer of 2002 at the MGM in Vegas.

The fiance, now wife, and I are there on weekend getaway vacation from Phoenix. We fell in love with the MGM a while back and always go play $10 blackjack there for kicks.

I sit down at a $10 table and can hear these people at the craps table just going insane, more than normal craps insanity. The wife goes over and finds two huge, like cage fighter huge, black dudes just steamrolling this $100 min bet table.

She comes back and tells me about it, but I don't really think much of it. Fast forward about 15 minutes and I'm getting up to head to the cage to cash out my $10 winnings.

As we're walking up the two guys from the craps table come walking up. It's like they're floating through the air, people are moving around them like they're famous. They are ecstatic, just can't contain themselves. They're screaming things like....

"YEAH! [censored] YEAH! EIGHTY MOTHA [censored] GRAND!"
"AHHHH HA HA HA HA FUUUUUUUCKK, [censored] RICH! [censored] RICH!"

They're exchanging high-fives, chest bumping, dancing all of that.

They get up to the cage and get a check for $80,000 and they're both holding it, just can't belive it, going crazy.

The wife and I laugh about it and head off to eat dinner at the MGM. About an hour later we're walking back to NYNY and low and behold, the same two guys, this time at a $500 min bet table are playing craps again. They've got the entire $80,000 plus some at this table in $500 and $1000 chips.

This time they've got like six or seven hookers with them who are all holding them, kissing them, just all over them.

Once again the wife and I laugh about it and we head off to a roulette table to gambool it up a bit. We put a $1 bet on 25, our anniversary date and end up hitting. I forget to remove my bet and it hits again. Yay!

It's getting late and we're tired from the drive earlier in the day so we decide to call it quits.

As we're walking back to the NYNY we once again pass our two craps playing friends... they've moved, to $10 table. They've got about $100 each in front of them in $5 chips and no hot hookers in sight. In fact, there's nobody at the table, just them. They look miserable, like they could die right there on the casino floor and be happier.

Cliff's Notes:

Two guys win more money than they've ever seen playing craps and lose it all in two hours.

[neuroman]

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My bro went to a casino with $23 after he lost out of a pool tourney and made $200 playing deuces wild, then a thousand playing bj, on the way out the door he stuck a hundred into a $10 video poker machine, hit 4 jacks on the first deal for $2500, then they made him play it again so the 4 jacks werent on the screen and the machine dealt him a royal flush for $40,000. That's pretty good I think...

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Winner so far...

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If it was true it would be.

[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...

[wmspringer]

First time I ever played blackjack for money was at the 888 casino. Deposited $200, got the $200 bonus. Played until I was down to $198 and cashed it out.

Next day they gave me a $10 bonus. I won about $1500 and never played there again.

[Rottersod]

One of my first times in Vegas years ago I went to the Desert Inn (DI) to play blackjack. I flew in but didn't have any hotel reservations. I started off at a $10 table and the cards kept hitting. I mean it just kept going and within a few hours I was playing $100 per hand and sometimes I'd play $500 per hand. I was having the luckiest streak of my life. After a while the pit boss comes up and asks if I am staying there and when I tell him I'm not and need a room he offers to RFB me and gets me set up in a penthouse suite with these great windows with a clicker to open the drapes. At the time I was so naive and thought this was the best thing that ever happened to me (actually it probably was).

I stayed for 2 days and ended up with a great profit. I don't remember exactly how much it was but it was more than $8000. The hotel gave me a limo to the airport and a card with the casino hosts name and number to call anytime I wanted to play.

From then on I would call in advance and they would pick me up at the airport in the DI limo and RFB me and I'd have a great time. Man, I wish they had never closed the DI.