What's the most you've ever won gambling or playing the lotto?

[El Diablo Blanco]

I won $8k at a table playing blackjack.  It was a night where I couldn't lose.  Was playing $5, but just let it ride after each win, before I knew it I had some $500 bets going and the kicker was I split aces and hit blackjack on both.  Was awesome, but sadly over the years I'm probably still down overall in my gambling debt.


Queue ESFitness to tell how he ran a gambling book that made millions in prison.

[bigmc]

107k

[El Diablo Blanco]

107k

How?

[FREAKgeek]

I won $8k at a table playing blackjack.  It was a night where I couldn't lose.  Was playing $5, but just let it ride after each win, before I knew it I had some $500 bets going and the kicker was I split aces and hit blackjack on both.  Was awesome, but sadly over the years I'm probably still down overall in my gambling debt.

One of the problems with negative expectation games... you'll have big wins if you play long enough, but they unfortunately don't cover all the losses.

You can tweak out an edge at blackjack with the right conditions, but you need a large bank and no life playing endless hours. And that's assuming you don't get kicked out, bet too high and play too right they kick you out.

[bigmc]

How?

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[ratherbebig]

doesnt matter if you lost more than youve won

[njflex]

my mom and her husband are lucky as hell,i think they have a gambling issue ..they go to vegas 3 x yr and atlantic city 2 to 3x a month all comped at 'tropicana',they have won 14,000 on poker machine and 10k  and 4k,my mom plays video keno and has hit 1k too many times to remember,last week in ac she hit for 1800.00 and came home and 2hrs later hit 500.00 on a scratch off hows that for gamblers luck,,,i have zero luck at it,i go play at yonkers few times a yr with her or ac I go and get a room on a lowered rate cause of them..

[El Diablo Blanco]

doesnt matter if you lost more than youve won

Not really, say you go to vegas 3-4 times a year like I do.  I bring maybe $1000 for gambling, fun, clubs, food etc... each time.  Even if I lose $500 of it on the tables I got my entertainment value from it.  So yeah, add up all loses over a lifetime and I'm down, but I knew going in that the $1000 was for my weekend of fun so I didn't miss it, but on one of those trips hitting $8K, it made for an awesome weekend with some fun whores.

[Meta-physical]

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Who are you going with for AJ vs Wlad?

[Zillotch]

life is a gamble... so I cant tally up my total yet... 

[bigmc]

Who are you going with for AJ vs Wlad?

Depends which wlad turns up

I think he's shot and aj takes him out inside six

[PJim]

I recently won £15k for correctly guessing the title and artist of a song with a literal split second clip on a radio show. It went up £500 each time someone got it wrong.

[El Diablo Blanco]

I recently won £15k for correctly guessing the title and artist of a song with a literal split second clip on a radio show. It went up £500 each time someone got it wrong.

Sweet deal.  not a bad payday for a lucky guess.

[Meta-physical]

Depends which wlad turns up

I think he's shot and aj takes him out inside six

I've said the exact same thing. I like Wlad, but I think he's finished.

[stuntmovie]

DIABLO, I call myself a Blackjack expert and have been teaching the game to family members and friends who show an interest ..... and have been playing the game in Nevada casino since the days when you could place  a 25 cent bet.

I teach family and friends how to play the game by keeping the House Edge to a minimum, but even then there is no guarantee of coming out ahead every time you sit at a BJ tables.

I'm only a five/ten dollar player but I can honestly say that I have won more than I have lost since I learned how to play the game since Beat the Dealer became so damn popular.

Winning (or losing as less as possible) is simply a matter of understanding Basic Strategy and knowing when to quit or simply knowing when to move to a different table.

Here is some BJ shit that is not explainable but always seems to work in my favor.  

I always win more (or lose less) when I sit at first base.

I always leave a table if one of the other players doesn't play by the Basic Strategy 'rules'.

I always leave a table if the dealer wins three hands in a row.

I quit when my winnings are 3x larger than my daily bankroll or if and when my bankroll gets down to zero .... which is seldom.

I never play at any table that does not pay 3/2 for a blackjack. Anyone that accepts even-money is a fool. And most of these fools don't  even realize that they are paying the casino every time they get a BJ.

I never play at any table that utilizes a continuous shuffle machine.

I never make a side bet.

I never fail to tell any Pit Boss that the casinos are fucking up Las Vegas and it will never return to the way it used to be. Their only response is a nod of the head and complete silence.

And ................

I won't pay for parking in any Las Vegas casino.

[PJim]

Sweet deal.  not a bad payday for a lucky guess.

I knew it straight away tbh from hearing it repeatedly on GTA haha. It was Africa by Toto.

[ratherbebig]

gambling for me is going for vanilla isolate when i usually buy chocolate.

[El Diablo Blanco]

DIABLO, I call myself a Blackjack expert and have been teaching the game to family members and friends who show an interest ..... and have been playing the game in Nevada casino since the days when you could place  a 25 cent bet.

I teach family and friends how to play the game by keeping the House Edge to a minimum, but even then there is no guarantee of coming out ahead every time you sit at a BJ tables.

I'm only a five/ten dollar player but I can honestly say that I have won more than I have lost since I learned how to play the game since Beat the Dealer became so damn popular.

Winning (or losing as less as possible) is simply a matter of understanding Basic Strategy and knowing when to quit or simply knowing when to move to a different table.

Here is some BJ shit that is not explainable but always seems to work in my favor. 

I always win more (or lose less) when I sit at first base.

I always leave a table if one of the other players doesn't play by the Basic Strategy 'rules'.

I always leave a table if the dealer wins three hands in a row.

I quit when my winnings are 3x larger than my daily bankroll or if and when my bankroll gets down to zero .... which is seldom.

I never play at any table that does not pay 3/2 for a blackjack. Anyone that accepts even-money is a fool. And most of these fools don't  even realize that they are paying the casino every time they get a BJ.

I never play at any table that utilizes a continuous shuffle machine.

I never make a side bet.

I never fail to tell any Pit Boss that the casinos are fucking up Las Vegas and it will never return to the way it used to be. Their only response is a nod of the head and complete silence.

And ................

I won't pay for parking in any Las Vegas casino.

I can't tell you how often I'm at a table and some jackass who knows fuck all about the game is sitting at the anchor and fucks it up for the whole table by hitting when they shouldn't.  I've seems fights almost break out over this.  Then I've been at tables where there are true players and the anchor is even willing to burn a card and sacrifice their hand for the table and people win like crazy.  When the dealer has a 6 showing and someone with 12 tells the dealer to hit and gets a jack and then the dealer turns a 10, hits and gets a 5 and wins when they should have had that jack and bust fucking kills me.  I usually call that person out and go to another table.

Yes, the continuous shuffler is the biggest scam.  I still think these shuffling machines are rigged to give the better hands to the dealer.
For fun I like to play let it ride.  When the dealer used to shuffle manually I've hit 4 of a kind twice and full house about 5 times.  Since they went to the shuffling machine I get shit cards every fucking time and no one at the table ever gets a decent hand anymore.  I swear the machine is rigging it.

[FitnessFrenzy]

0 . I make my own luck

[Rearden Metal]

227k, heydey of online poker, won sunday warmup.

[Henda]

£25 or whatever it is for 3 numbers on the lottery these days, got 4 numbers once but so many people had 4 numbers that week the prize for 4 numbers was less than it was for fucking 3.
Never win fuck all

[HTexan]

1500 on black jack, I don't like to gamble.

[Simple Simon]

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did you have a lot on esftiness to lose?

[Simple Simon]

won £52 on the football pools years ago, had 19 points or so, if I had another half a point I would have won £250k

[ARMZ]

Let's talk lotto for a sec.. I've been studying it for a while now. I really think the California state lotto is fake (Super lotto plus)

I spent $20,000 last year in quick pics alone playing Power, Mega and Super lottery.

The best I've done is one number off. I've done that 3 times.