I just saw this thread, and I had to post, since I can finally answer YES to the jackpot question! It was several months ago (around last October) when it happened. At that time, our local Indian casinos in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were a lot more generous than they currently are. It's not just me, everyone knows that here. It's definitely changed over the last almost year or so, and for the worse.
But anyway, back then, people were winning more and hitting more jackpots -- I started getting a little bit of a complex, since I still had never won anything to speak of, and it seemed like everyone I knew had at least one jackpot story to tell, and many people I knew had more than one, and I mean REAL jackpot size winnings! Like in the thousands, some even had won as much as $25,000- I think that was the most anybody I knew had ever won. And I knew TWO people who won that amount! And one of those people had hit more than one jackpot, the big $25000 one, and I think one for $4000, and at least a couple more smaller ones, like $2500, I think.
So, I kept thinking how much money that must mean is actually being won overall, if I alone knew of that many wins just among the people I knew (none of whom are rich or who ever have all THAT much to blow at a casino, although they probably all spend more than they can afford at times...lol). And that was just MY acquaintances... not to mention all the people who had won who I never even heard of!
So when I still kept NOT winning, and not winning, etc etc., it was getting a little depressing. But that all changed one day, when I went to one of our Osage casinos here, when I finally got a jackpot story of my own. I won $6,000 on a quarter slot machine that day!
They paid me in cash right then and there, all 100 dollar bills, one after the other, in my hand til I was holding a stack of em that added up to $6000. More money than I'd ever had at one time ever.
I had gone in with a free $7 certificate that they sent me in the mail (everyone gets 'em if they play fairly often at that casino)... and I also had $20 of my own, and that was all the money I had on me when I got there. And I was really planning to at least TRY to only spend the $7 free money they sent me,and not break into the $20 of my own, cause I really needed it for other things, and I was broke at the time.
But I knew I'd end up spending it too if I had it with me, and I did, well, part of it anyway. I spent the $7 pretty quick, so I put that $20 into a machine called the Vortex, which you can play quarters or half dollars or dollars on, 1 to 3 coins at a time.
I made a few spins with it on quarters, 3 in each spin, and nothing happened, so I increased the denomination to half dollars -- and was I ever glad I did.
It hit on the 50 cent denomination, when I had 3 coins in, and it hit the biggest thing that machine can possibly pay out. That top symbol on the top of the paychart dropped down in all 3 places on the payline, and then it started free spinning, which, in our local casinos, is when you can really make some money, and it did one free spin and gave me the same 3 symbols, and then another one, same 3 symbols, and then again, same 3, and again, and ... I don't know how many times that happened, cuz I was just about in shock already by then!
Finally it was done, and it was $6000.
Which I gave back a LARGE part of to the various casinos in town, over the next, oh, about 3 months, cuz by New Year's, it was... yep, all gone.
But I did spend some of it on other things too, but admittedly not enough. One big $1000 payment went to pay off a big chunk of a loan I was making monthly payments on, so I haven't had to make a payment on that for all this time since then. But yes, I kept spending and spending it at the casinos, thinking that surely, I'd win another good one before it all ran out - surely! But then it was out and I hadn't yet hit anything else to speak of, so that was the end of that.
But if I'd just had enough to try for a little bit longer....I'm SURE it was right around the corner! LOL, I know ... u never know... but it just seemed impossible to run out of that much money without ever winning a bunch of it back, when all it took for me to win it was a tiny fraction of all that money, you know? But that's just what I did. Ran out before I hit again.
And so now, I'm back in the same place I was before I hit that one, thinking that surely, it's gonna happen again soon, cuz it'll be a year soon, so I keep going but I keep losing... or rather, I keep winning but it's not enough, so I spend it back trying to win a big enough amount, but end up leaving dead broke every time. I haven't won more than a couple hundred except maybe one time when I won about $450 one day, and I know that should have been enough, at least for the moment, but that was the day I ended up staying in the casino for all that day after winning the $450 and all that night and into the next... until it was all gone -- as if that was my goal. As if, OK, I did it, it's gone, I can go home now... and that's NOT my goal! lol.
But unfortunately, like I said at the beginning of this awfully long post, it's not like it used to be at our casinos... their generosity has waned decisively, now that they reeled us all in, with jackpots for everybody or closer to it than now at least, and so we all keep coming back for more, but now they don't have to give em to us, since we're still coming back even tho we're not winning - not as much anyway.
And of course, some people still are, but I'm sure it's fewer than before.
But this time, it could be you! It could be me! So I still go when I can. It sure is fun when it works, but sure is a bummer when it doesn't.
I'll let you know when it finally works again, hope it'll be soon!
Great post idea, OP!
thx
sunspun
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