mom hit at AC

[woodmills1]

My mom was here for a week and when we left for north jersey to take her home she said lets go to atlantic city .  About 2.5 hours longer than the drive to her place.  Well, we went.  Long story short, she hit.  Details ifin ya want em.

[IMERC]

it would just make me jealous...

[Gary_C]

Ya, everyone you talk to coming out of a casino always just hit a big one. Very few will talk about what they have lost. I saw one guy hit a $1000 jackpot and he was honest enough to say that he normally lost about $175 a week in the casino.

I choose not to play so I am truly a winner. However, I would like to own a casino where suckers would come in and hand me their money and go away feeling like a winner and come back tomorrow and do the same.  8)

[easymoney]

 i am not a gambler and can not understand people that are willing to give away thier money that way. we have a state lottery here in tennessee i have never played it and find it hard to believe so many people have so much money to give away. it takes in millions from people that should be using the money for a better life rather than chaseing a dream.

[WH_Conley]

My wife and I like to play poker. Quarter and a half limit. We will have a get togather with friends every couple of weeks. Even with a run of bad luck, where can you get an evening's worth of entertainment for $10.00?

[logwalker]

Those other guys don't have to read about it. I want to hear all the juicy details.  8)
Joe

[fstedy]

My full time job is a Slot Tech at Caesars in Atlantic City and I'll tell you there were a lot of very wealthy people who are no longer!! If you want to have fun gambling take twenty or fifty bucks go for a couple hours if you last that long and then walk away from it. The worst thing that can happen to you is to hit a nice jackpot on your first trip it just sucks you in. Slots are like buying a lottery ticket you have to be at the right machine at the right time.

We have a High Roller that comes in about twice a month stays Friday Saturday and Sunday he plays the $100, $500 and $1,000 machines about 10 hours a day each day. Overall he's lost about 8 million in the last 4 years plus what he has won. It can be a greed driven sickness in a many of cases. The ones i feel sorry for are the retired Mom's and Pop's scrimped and saved all their lives blow thousands in a day playing. Just for amusement thinking they will hit the Big One.

[fishman]

we want the details too, congrats to ya mom, my wife plays when we get to mississippi, only nickel slots, $20 limit, hit one for $856.00 , good, cheap fun,  if you don't get hooked on the" just one more spin"

[Cedarman]

We have went a few times.  4 or 5 over the last 30 years.  We have a Ceasars about an hour away and the new one at French Lick.  I lose 20 or 30 and I feel so bad it takes me a long time to even think of going back.  Last time I won about 40 but wife lost 50 so at least the food was good.  My daughter works at West Baden so she cant go and gamble.
Sometimes I get the urge, then I read about all the money the "boats" took in and the governement got.  Hmmmm!!!  That must come from all the losers.  That would be me if I went. 

Why will people so willingly give up theiir hard earned money and know that they wont win the big one, but begrudge a sawmill owner a nice profit on a board that they can enjoy forever?

[Faron]

I guess I get my fill of gambling by farming.  It would bug me to no end losing any amount to a slot machine or whatever.  I would like to hear how your mom fared, though. ;D

[OneWithWood]

So are you going to retire and take care of momma's estate?   ;)

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Looks like woodmills1 has allready left...

[crtreedude]

If I am going to gamble, I want to do it where the odds are in my favor, not against me. I have plenty of excitement in my life - don't need to get it that way.

But I have friends who enjoy it - for those who control it, it is fine, for those that it controls, it can be very bad. Pretty much like everything in the world.

[Bibbyman]

State run gambling is just another form of taxation.  When one state (government) sees their citizens go to another state to gamble, they see revenue leave the state.  So they push to legalize gambling too.

And I'm again' taxes even more than I'm again' gambling.

[crtreedude]

Bibbyman - wouldn't you perhaps consider taxes as gambling? It seems to me that it is a real gamble that they will use my taxes wisely...  :-\

[Ron Wenrich]

If gambling is another form of taxation, at least its voluntary.  ;)

[Cedarman]

Most of the people that have real money put it in the stock market.  A nice place to go low risk or high risk.  Something for everyone.  But it ain't like the one armed bandit.  Instant gratification takes longer.

When I do buy a lottery ticket, I say I am donating my dollar to the state today.

[Bibbyman]

Bibbyman - wouldn't you perhaps consider taxes as gambling? It seems to me that it is a real gamble that they will use my taxes wisely...  :-\

No.  I figure 50% is outright wasted and a good amount of the rest is put to uses I wouldn't approve of.

[Fla._Deadheader]

Y'all sure put a bullet between the eyes of wioodmills1  : : :

[Haytrader]

FDH,

I second that emotion... ;D

I am not a big gambler, but don't condem those that are (not neccessarily BIG gamblers). How does the saying go, To each his own? I would like to hear what woodmills had to share, but I am afraid he is reluctant to say anymore at this point.

[Fla._Deadheader]

I could feel a good story coming, until the Death knoll came about  : :

  Maybe he has thicker skin than we think, reckon ??? ;D 8).

[Sprucegum]

If we don't hear from him again - I hope it was the money that took him away.  :-\

[logwalker]

Another parade rained out I guess. :D :D

[woodmills1]

o well here goes

she put about 80 bucks into a penny machine before she hit for 220

she then went to a dollar machine and was on her second twenty when she hit for 340 but it had a let it ride function that she played twice.  I saw the cash out slip  $1085  :D

I new she was putting in 20 bucks at a time for the rest of the day but she had at least 5 more cash out slips from 60 to 300 bucks.

by the way the room was comped from resorts for free, just the state tax to pay

I played in a small texas holdem tournament the first night, came in fifth in the money and got a free breakfast comp for the next day

mom played all day the second day and won enought to take us to dinner at bobby flays at the borgata  nice place great gucci meal................lobster and oyster sooters for appetizer.........shot glass  with oyster, coctail sauce, green hot sauce, vodka, and lobter chunk on top 8)

I playe no limit holdem that night and all was well till my pocket aces got busted by trip sixes >:(

the next day we all won  I learned about the penny machines from mom....play all the lines and max bet  hit wheel of fortune for 120 and lucky lemmings for 140 pay back from poker loosings.  Kathy won all she had lost on video poker.  and then

I went to check out and take the bags to the takoma and heard the announcement   from now untill 8 pm we will pick the name of a random player whose card is in a slot machine and let them spinn the money wheel.  sure enough just as I get back to the casino I hear......
and the lovely anna just won $1000 on the money wheel  It was mom

all told I came home with 120 more than I left with Kathy broke even and my mom, who paid for all lunches and dinners came home with 900 more than she left with

we sure enough had fun :D :D :D

[sawguy21]

 8) You had fun and won some too. Gambling is not a problem as long as you know when to walk away.