Your greatest gambling return on a coin only wager??
Coinstartled
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Real coins in real slots......paper wagers don't count.
Keno, horses, lottery stories are welcome as well....as long as the wager was placed with real US coinage.
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Won a 50 cent box bet on a Maryland Pick 4 for a $100 just this past Friday Night. I only started playing the pick 4 this past month. This was my first win on a pick 4. Gave up on the scratch offs. It was also the first time I played the number.
I based the pick on the previous number drawing which had the numbers of my father's age if he was still living and his birth year. I believe he was telling me to bet my mom's age and her birth year and it came out the next drawing. Guess you can call them number marriages.
I bet sometimes this way on the pick 4 when I see numbers that mean something significant to me on the previous drawings.
Last year I also bet 10 cents on a Timber Wolf Machine at Horseshoe Baltimore for a $100 win during the bonus.
Also a .50 cent bet on a Timber Wolf Machine at Live gave me a $400 win.
Box of 20
Everything you mention are horrible gambles. You are betting against the house.
Poker is the only logical game as you are paying the "house" rent for a seat and they could care less on who wins the hand.
Not quite, there are still a few near 100% payout video poker machines if you know what you are looking for and know how to properly play. Add in the player club points and complimentary wilted buffet food and you can actually come out ahead.
I like this hit on $35 casino free play.
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A good friend and fellow coin collector (we belong to the same two coin clubs) is extremely liberal. The last time I visited his home to do a coin deal, he had a large picture of Obama hanging on his refrigerator. Last October we were discussing politics and I told him that he should get used to Trump being his next president. He said that will never happen and cited a bunch of polls showing that Hillary was way ahead. I suggest that we make the election a little more interesting and I bet him an ASE on the outcome of the election. He jumped on this wager thinking there is no way he could lose. When he paid me the ASE he was not happy, First thing I did was to check it to make sure he didn't scratch it up. LOL. To this day we're still good friends.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I have been to a casino once in my lifetime...not a gambler. A friend had tickets to VIP seating for a Meatloaf concert at a casino. We got to the casino 1/2 a day before the concert. Taking advantage of the free drinks I decided to play the quarter slots. On my second pull I won 400 quarters! Spent the rest of the afternoon getting rid of the quarters!
When I was a freshman in college I went to the local race track and made a $2 wager...it was about 30 years ago so I can't swear if it was two bills or if quarters were involved. Given my finances I'm guessing I used change. I was one of ten pick six winners and got a bit over $10K, which at the time meant no more college loans--very little spare money at the time for college expenses and that was HUGE.
I spent 5 years as a blackjack dealer in Lake Tahoe. I mostly played $1 video poker when I gambled. But I spent many hours on dead tables staring at slot machines and there were patterns to pay outs on progressive quarter video poker machines that became obvious.
On the 12 machine progressive poker machines next to where I dealt, the progressive jackpot for a royal flush paid off around $2500. If it grew past this amount, it meant that someone had hit the royal with less than 5 quarters played and the progressive had reset. Once reset, the Royal jackpot would hit around $4000.
One night on a dead game I noticed the jackpot was up to just over $4100. It was 4am and slow in the casino so I was let off early. I decided to play $20. I walked up to the carousel and only one machine was being played. I sat down and played my first role of quarters and lost. Cracked open my second role and hit the royal. By then, I was smart enough to stop playing and walk out with the money.
Flash forward about 9 days later and it was 4:30 am and I was starting at the same slots......jackpot was up to $4200. I ended my shift, bought $20 in quarters and walked over. All machines were empty. Sat down and played three hands and something didn't feel right. So I moved over one machine and on my third hand I hit the royal again. Walked out with that jackpot too and used the combined winnings to go back and finish college.
Nice score!
At Caesar's on my honeymoon, my wife won a $200 jackpot in a nickel machine. She pushed the payout button so we could listen to them all go chink, chink, chink into the trough. That was 30 years ago.
I miss the sound of the metal coins hitting the metal tray. Now about all you hear in a casino is 80's satellite music.
1976 or so I drove across the country to Vegas and Cali with a friend. We tried to find a room on the strip New Years day. Ended up at the King 8 Motel a fair distance from the action.
Place had some double slot machines. I dropped in a couple of Jefferson's and pulled the handle. got all sevens on the top machine and the bottom as well. Machine went nuts, a crowd formed including a couple of tie and jacket wearing casino employees. Figured I was set for life....or at least through the end of the trip. Disappointed though when only 8 bucks in nickels dropped out of the machine.
I played my friend at poker once and turned 5 Ike dollars into 10 Ike dollars.
Figured I was set for life....
There are types of advantage play in games like black jack. Counting can get you and edge. More sophisticated adavatage play can get you far more
Also, the house does care who wins at poker. If one player were to win most hands they would burn the other players out quickly and smaller pots and less vig. Ideally the house would like to see everyone stay about even in poker
But they can not control it. Cards are cards. The better players do win.
As to Jackpots .....
I was the winning hand in a bad beat poker hand and won a $3200 Jackpot. The losing hand got $7400. The casino was nice enough to give me a 1099.
Won $2500 on a Ten Times quarter machine in 2001 on a $.50 bet, feeding quarters into the machine. I was ordering a drink and not even paying attention.
Good times. It helped pay for my 2001 trip to China and Tibet.
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
Another problem with poker at a casino is collusion. It goes on all the time. Players can signal their hands to accomplices in ways that can't be caught
The 25 cents I put into pay phone to call my wife for first date.
I'm a Nevadan and have lived in Carson City, Reno and Las Vegas. Don't gamble with one exception. The day I graduated UNR my parents bought dinner at the Mexican Restaurant on Virginia St afterward. Dad and Mom went first through the door to get a table and I was stuck just outside in the foyer. They had two quarter slots in that foyer and I had one quarter. Never pulled a slot before or since and with one quarter and one pull won $37.50 with three bars. I quit while I was ahead.
bob:)
You work too hard for your paycheck, don't give it to a casino. When I was a senior in Acct at UNR I interned at Harrah's in downtown Reno for the year. Our accounting department figured out that 70% of the weekly wages that were paid came back to the casino in the form of gambling losses by the employees. So essentially Harrah's promised one wage but actually paid another due to the addiction of it's employees.
If you do gamble, do so with an absolute max to lose and stick by it no matter ten minutes or ten hours.
Hell of a gamble but one hell of a payout!! Good go!
bob
I found a Kennedy half on the floor on my way out of the casino (back when they took coins). Threw it in a random quarter 2-play machine, won 3 symbols for $600 and a free spin. Won again on the free spin for 380 or 390. At that point it's like give me the 10 or 15 bucks lol. Walked out.
$10 free slot play got me this 2 years ago.
Was it a silver Kennedy?
I knew someone would ask lol. Indeed it was. It was hard putting a 64 in, but thank gosh I did. I figured it would bring me some luck. No regrets!
I have been to Reno and Vegas several times... usually play Blackjack because I am good at it and a good player can usually win.... Never been a slots player, except for Big Bertha... that giant machine they used to have where I had to reach up to pull the handle... always put one dollar in that ... I heard it go off on a jackpot once..not mine... it was awesome.... I did hit a quarter slot once in the airport... for $50.... Cheers, RickO
Absolutely, but a really good player can see what is going on and decide weather it would be profitable to play against these clowns knowing that they are colluding or to walk away.