Any crazy casino gambling stories? (non poker)

elevated · #1 10-20-2005, 12:53 AM

I hear alot of stories about how this guy ran $10 into 10k in two days at a casino by gambling- not poker. Any personal experiences or any crazy gambling stories- please share. I like hearing about people going on tears on blacjack or craps or roulette, or whatever.

Sykes · #2 10-20-2005, 01:11 AM

You need to read this book:

"The man with $100,000 breasts" by Michael Konik (i think).

idrinkcoors · #3 10-20-2005, 01:27 AM

I am not sure where I read it, maybe in the book posted above? Anyway, there is the story of the man who took his social security disability check, $500? to Treasure Island and turned it into over a million playing blackjack. He wasn't even playing correctly according to dealers...plus he apparently was a jerk. One dealer wanted him to lose badly. If I remember correctly, they put him up in the hotel and he ended up giving most of it back. When he got down to $50,000 or so, Steve Wynn cut him off. (this is how I remember the story and it may not be all accurate.)
P.S. The t.v. show Las Vegas ran an episode last year that basically had the same plot line.

elevated · #4 10-20-2005, 03:35 AM

yeah i read that book. very interesting read. I just thought since many of you are around the gambling world alot maybe you would have personal experiences on this.

somapopper · #5 10-20-2005, 04:30 AM

online, and not that exciting, but...

I did a 300 deposit blackjack bonus the other day, and managed to run it down to 2 dollars quite quickly. I cursed my luck had a smoke, came back, and managed to turn the 2 into 390 and cash out a 90 profit.

kyleb · #6 10-20-2005, 07:57 AM

I find it very hard to believe that Steve Wynn would both interfere with this man's gambling ($1mil isn't all that much) and ALSO cut him off at $50,000. He'd still be walking out with their money and comps.

canis582 · #7 10-20-2005, 08:04 AM

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Anyway, there is the story of the man who took his social security disability check, $500? to Treasure Island and turned it into over a million playing blackjack. He wasn't even playing correctly according to dealers.

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Now thats how you get addicted to gambling.

pipster · #8 10-20-2005, 11:48 AM

Yeah I remember that episode of Las Vegas... they actually GAVE that guy $10 or something because his wife ran off with another guy or something and they felt bad (so they got him addicted to gambling) and he ran it into several million and then went and invested it into even more, and came back in a later episode and tried to buy the place.

TheJunkyardGod · #9 10-20-2005, 12:16 PM

One time when I went to the Borgata with my friends, we all went our seperate ways to find our favorite games to gambool it up. I went to the poker room and most of my other friends stayed on the floor.

Each time my one friend came up, he was either up 2 grand on the roulette table or broke. He came downstairs 4 times with a different amount of what he was up or down.

He ended the night up 1600 dollars, though he said at one point he had almost 4 grand.

Meanwhile, I won 120 at the 3-6 table.....

Solami17 · #10 10-20-2005, 12:29 PM

Aboard a cruise-line one weekend, I played craps for about an hour, and turned $50 into around $900. Afterwards, I played a $900 hand of BJ and got blackjack...BOOM, I'm up $2200 or so. Went to roulette and won another 2K and called it a weekend. All in all, I won a little over $4,000 that weekend. Funny thing is, I hardly play any other table games other than poker.