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September 30th, 2018 at 10:37:38 AM permalink
Playing quarter Jacks or Better and get dealt a full house. I was watching a ballgame and slow playing, evidently not paying attention. I thought I held all cards, but when I hit the button, one of the fives was discarded and replaced with the fourth nine for a 4OAK.

It got me thinking about that how one of the best wins I had when I was young was a bet on the wrong horse.
This forum must have some great stories of accidental wins, anyone want to share some?
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September 30th, 2018 at 11:56:12 AM permalink
Quote: billryan

Playing quarter Jacks or Better and get dealt a full house. I was watching a ballgame and slow playing, evidently not paying attention. I thought I held all cards, but when I hit the button, one of the fives was discarded and replaced with the fourth nine for a 4OAK.

It got me thinking about that how one of the best wins I had when I was young was a bet on the wrong horse.
This forum must have some great stories of accidental wins, anyone want to share some?



Sigh I wish I had an accidental win. In Jan I threw away a dealt 4oak for $200 when I only had 3 cards by accident. Axel wanted to punch me in throat when I told him I did that
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September 30th, 2018 at 1:30:29 PM permalink
Quote: billryan

Playing quarter Jacks or Better and get dealt a full house. I was watching a ballgame and slow playing, evidently not paying attention. I thought I held all cards, but when I hit the button, one of the fives was discarded and replaced with the fourth nine for a 4OAK.

It got me thinking about that how one of the best wins I had when I was young was a bet on the wrong horse.
This forum must have some great stories of accidental wins, anyone want to share some?



I did that in horses also. I hit a trifecta in the race after the Belmont Stakes this year when I accidentally switched two horses. Paid a little more than $1,600 for $4 ticket, so that was a nice end to the day.

Can I count the time I tried to throw $700 in cash on red at roulette, but the croupier told me no cash play and the ball landed in 0? That felt like a nice accidental win.
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September 30th, 2018 at 1:44:25 PM permalink
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Sigh I wish I had an accidental win. In Jan I threw away a dealt 4oak for $200 when I only had 3 cards by accident. Axel wanted to punch me in throat when I told him I did that



Supposedly, you can ask the casino for a review of the last few hands and correct a play like that.
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September 30th, 2018 at 3:07:09 PM permalink
Quote: billryan

Supposedly, you can ask the casino for a review of the last few hands and correct a play like that.

It can't hurt to try.
♪♪Now you swear and kick and beg us That you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas With a handle in your hand♪♪ Your black cards can make you money So you hide them when you're able In the land of casinos and money You must put them on the table♪♪ You go back Jack do it again roulette wheels turinin' 'round and 'round♪♪ You go back Jack do it again♪♪
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September 30th, 2018 at 3:17:58 PM permalink
same week a couple of months ago (different casinos):

1) Played 1 hand of $5 9/7 db vp to see how much coin-in per point.
drew baby quads while holding 2 cards for a $2k hand pay

2) played 1 hand of $2 9/7 db vp to see how much coin-in per point.
got dealt quad aces for a $1.6k hand pay

have blown the $ since then :(
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September 30th, 2018 at 7:34:20 PM permalink
Quote: GWAE

Sigh I wish I had an accidental win.
In Jan I threw away a dealt 4oak for $200 when I only had 3 cards by accident. Axel wanted to punch me in throat when I told him I did that

if it was a class 2 machine (ie: ny racinos), would you have gotten that card back again on the draw?
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September 30th, 2018 at 11:41:40 PM permalink
One of my friends bet Golovkin for $10k last year. The boxing match ended in a tie. He was going to throw away his ticket because it "lost". I told him to go cash it, he thought I was joking and messing with him. He was convinced it lost. I then offered to buy it (at discount), at which point he figured if someone's willing to buy a "losing" ticket, it probably didn't actually lose. He cashed it and [obviously] got his $10k back.


As far as me bumbling into a big win....I was with some friends from out of town and they wanted to do some gambling. So we went to go play craps for a little while, had some fun, we all made a small profit of a few hundred bucks. Not bad. They asked what kind of games I play, I said mostly VP. They never heard of it or at least didn't know what it was or how to play. So I scrounged around and found a $5 / $10 denom VP machine with 9/6 JOB. I was going to play a little bit anyway and figured I'd throw my profits at the $5 denom (and it's not like $5 denom was out of my price range or anything, I just would'a prefered to play something with lower denom).

Anyway, I put in a few hundred, started playing, and quickly hit a four of a kind for $625. They thought it was amazing, etc. etc. I played a little bit longer, staying around $1k in credits in the machine. They said play $10 denom, I'm like no, they like yes, I'm like no, they say to do it, I'm like okay fine, but if I lose $100, not going to play it anymore.

A few hands later, I hit a 4oak for $1,250. Okay, now we're cooking. I'm not gonna play much more...if I lose $200 from where I am now, just gonna call it quits. Hit a few flushes, full houses, etc. Then a 4oak. Then another. And another. Probably the best I had ever run concerning 4oaks. They just kept coming. I think I hit 7 4oaks, all said and done. Hit so many, in quick succession, I don't think I'd believe it if someone else said they hit that many so quickly. A few were hit when slot dog was walking away from paying me. The longest in between getting paid and hitting another was maybe 20 minutes at the most. Just kept hitting them, and in between I was getting some flushes and whatnot to keep the credits up. I don't remember the exact amount of profit, but it was just shy of $10k, IIRC. I remember thinking it was a bit over $10k, but forgot I had to subtract my buy-in at the craps table and buy-in at the VP machine, which brought it to slightly below $10k profit.
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October 1st, 2018 at 12:15:39 AM permalink
I might be up like 3k+ on baseball this season just on wrong bets. Damn teams sound alike (no racist) and the sportsbooks tricked me
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October 1st, 2018 at 12:58:18 AM permalink
It probably happened a lot, but I can't remember.
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October 1st, 2018 at 7:16:00 AM permalink
I just flew in from Mexico and was to meet a friend who was flying in to Las Vegas. I went straight from the airport to Planet Hollywood. We scheduled to meet at Planet Hollywood at 7pm. I get there and can't find him anywhere and he is not answering his phone. I walk the casino about five times with no luck. I finally decide I will give him thirty minutes to contact or find me. I sit at a $5 video poker and pop a $20k Royal while waiting. He finally returns one of my phone calls and said he cancelled his trip and he is still at home back east.

I was pissed that he didn;t let me know because I would have rather went straight home than to a casino, but $20k eased the pain a little.
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October 7th, 2018 at 12:18:22 AM permalink
It was a pretty good week for parlay cards. The best leg in college was the Wyoming Hawaii game. Wyoming was +3.5 on the cards and +1 irl. Total was pretty low.

I put that on most of my cards. But I accidentally picked Hawaii. It closed at Wyoming -3.5 which will probably make it the best parlay leg of the whole season. And my dyslexic ass is on the wrong side.

Obviously, every other leg won. Wyoming led or tied most of the game. At 10 - 10 in the 4th they drove inside the 10 but had to settle for a field goal. A lucky break, as Hawaii could not win by 3 on their own fg. They would need a td to win and they got it. 17 -13 final.

A heartbreaker for all the smart parlay card players, as the sharp sides crushed it all day and this was the last game and the juiciest of all.

A nice win for me and the potential for a very nice one headed into tomorrow.
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October 7th, 2018 at 3:15:34 AM permalink
I meant to play about .20 on Mount Kilimanjaro slot game and accidentally hit Max Bet. Yikes! O.O Wouldn't you know it? It hit the 45 free spins! :D I got over $500 after the bonus game was over! :D
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October 7th, 2018 at 5:34:19 AM permalink
Quote: Rigondeaux

It was a pretty good week for parlay cards. The best leg in college was the Wyoming Hawaii game. Wyoming was +3.5 on the cards and +1 irl. Total was pretty low.

I put that on most of my cards. But I accidentally picked Hawaii. It closed at Wyoming -3.5 which will probably make it the best parlay leg of the whole season. And my dyslexic ass is on the wrong side.

Obviously, every other leg won. Wyoming led or tied most of the game. At 10 - 10 in the 4th they drove inside the 10 but had to settle for a field goal. A lucky break, as Hawaii could not win by 3 on their own fg. They would need a td to win and they got it. 17 -13 final.

A heartbreaker for all the smart parlay card players, as the sharp sides crushed it all day and this was the last game and the juiciest of all.

A nice win for me and the potential for a very nice one headed into tomorrow.



I actually had Hawaii but fell asleep before it was over. I had a very good day with a record of 7-1 but definitely got lucky on a couple.
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March 5th, 2019 at 10:03:38 AM permalink
I'm a minimum bet player. Playing craps on my birthday a few years ago. Just me on one side...old guy on the other. I indulge for $1 each on the hard 6 & hard 8. Old guy shooting. Hard 8.....parlay....hard 8...hard 8...hard 8...hard 8. Didn't have the cajones to leave $100 up there.
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March 5th, 2019 at 1:51:07 PM permalink
Quote: SkittleCar1

I'm a minimum bet player. Playing craps on my birthday a few years ago. Just me on one side...old guy on the other. I indulge for $1 each on the hard 6 & hard 8. Old guy shooting. Hard 8.....parlay....hard 8...hard 8...hard 8...hard 8. Didn't have the cajones to leave $100 up there.



That game is so complicated. I don't understand how anyone can play it.
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March 19th, 2019 at 8:09:06 PM permalink
When I play I use a silver coin as my card protector. Instead of looking at the actual cards I look at the reflection of the corner in my coin so I don't have to risk anyone else peeking at my card. Playing 2&5 NL I look at my cards and see JsJc. I'm in late position and it is folded around to me so I bet the pot. I get two callers and the flop is very wet, JT8 with two suited cards. Action checks around to me so I bet about half the pot. I am holding a set but don't want to make draws cheap. Both call. Turn comes a nine. Four straight on the board so my set doesn't feel so good anymore. Action checks around to me and I check. River is another nine. Flush doesn't get there but full house does. First player makes minimum bet, second player folds. Player one turns over JT suited for two pair. I turn over my hand thinking I have a full house and see that I in fact had J7 and had read the 7 upside down as a J. Made the straight by total luck.

Needless to say I stopped looking at the reflections and look at my actual cards now.
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March 20th, 2019 at 5:34:38 AM permalink
Good story. Luck was on your side.
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March 21st, 2019 at 9:23:13 PM permalink
I forgot about this one. In the Summer of 2007 my father went to a conference in Vegas and a friend of his from New York asked him to put a $100 bet on the Giants to win the Super Bowl while he was there. My father is not a football fan but decided on a whim to make the same bet for himself so going into the season had a ticket for the Giants to win it all at 20-1.

I went to Vegas with him that year and told him he should place a Moneyline bet on the Patriots so that no matter who won he would finish a winner. He chose to stick with his pick and the Giants, of course, went on to beat the 19-0 Patriots.

He would have never made this bet had his friend not asked him to place the wager on his hometown team.
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July 4th, 2019 at 11:27:31 AM permalink
My grandmother has been telling this story for years. She went to play a 25 cent slot machine. Put in $100 and as she’s about to hit the spin button notices that she only has 4 credits listed. Spin ends up being a winner but she’s confused about the credits. Calls over her daughter (my aunt) who realizes it’s a $25 machine. She had won something like $700. Cashed out and walked away to find a 25 cent machine.
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July 4th, 2019 at 11:40:07 AM permalink
I bet harness horses quite a bit in my youth. Mostly at Roosevelt Raceway, but occasionally at OTB. One particular stretch, the horse were at Yonkers so I got used to OTB and the letters they used, instead of post numbers. Post One was the A horse, ect,ect.
So they come back to Roosevelt and I want to bet the number 1 horse, but I mistakenly ask for $10 on the A. Clerk thinks I said 8 and prints out the ticket. No refunds or exchanges. He offers to hold it to see if anyone wants such a ticket but I get stuck with a 38-1 unknown. Race starts and the #1 horse breaks stride and causes two other horses to go wide. The 8 horse goes wire to wire and I win about $500. I'm a Senior in HS ,earning about $25 a week working part time. Pissed away half of it and used the rest for beer, pot and comic books.
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March 21st, 2020 at 1:18:07 PM permalink
Funny, she is excited just to break into handpay territory -- then more.

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March 21st, 2020 at 5:55:46 PM permalink
I walked by a lady once waiting for a handpay of over $30K on one of these machines. Couldn't figure it out since the highest progressive is $2000 - $5000. Now I know how she did it lol.

Has to be a LOT of losing spins on this machine to cover that kind of a win.
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March 22nd, 2020 at 5:32:20 AM permalink
it's not from gambling but anyway
in the 80s companies had this thing ESOP - employee stock ownership plans
my small company gave every employee including me 100 shares - it was a penny stock - it was worth almost nothing - I forgot about it

years later when it was completely forgotten I got a letter
my old company had been bought out and my shares were now worth $5,000.
at that time, $5K was a pretty good sum of money for me
I almost lost consciousness
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March 22nd, 2020 at 6:01:43 AM permalink
Quote: lilredrooster

it's not from gambling but anyway
in the 80s companies had this thing ESOP - employee stock ownership plans
my small company gave every employee including me 100 shares - it was a penny stock - it was worth almost nothing - I forgot about it

years later when it was completely forgotten I got a letter
my old company had been bought out and my shares were now worth $5,000.
at that time, $5K was a pretty good sum of money for me
I almost lost consciousness [/q

Nice. A similar thing happened to my Mom about twenty five years ago. She did a project for a company and somehow got put in their pension plan. Fifteen years goes by and the company changes hands and then is bought out by Home Depot. She gets a form letter telling her she is not eligible to be put on Home Depots pension plan so they are offering her a buyout. She gets a check for about $300 and laughs about it. A month later, she gets a second check for almost $15,000 and a notification that the next check will be the final one. Another month goes by and we are all anticipating and speculating on how much it will be. It finally arrived and was only for about $600. Disappointing but it was found money. She gave each of us $1,000 and bought $1,000 savings bonds for all the grandchildren.

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March 22nd, 2020 at 6:24:42 AM permalink
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I bet harness horses quite a bit in my youth. Mostly at Roosevelt Raceway, but occasionally at OTB. One particular stretch, the horse were at Yonkers so I got used to OTB and the letters they used, instead of post numbers. Post One was the A horse, ect,ect.
So they come back to Roosevelt and I want to bet the number 1 horse, but I mistakenly ask for $10 on the A. Clerk thinks I said 8 and prints out the ticket. No refunds or exchanges. He offers to hold it to see if anyone wants such a ticket but I get stuck with a 38-1 unknown. Race starts and the #1 horse breaks stride and causes two other horses to go wide. The 8 horse goes wire to wire and I win about $500. I'm a Senior in HS ,earning about $25 a week working part time. Pissed away half of it and used the rest for beer, pot and comic books.




when I first started betting horses I was young and dumb
I ordered a trifecta system from the Gamblers Book Club
the system was: take the favorite out and box the next 7 horses - a $1 box cost $210 - the guy had all kinds of charts and sh.. showing that his system was big winner
I don't think I really believed the system was a winner but I did it anyway - I had cash from counting cards at BJ
I did it 4 times and won twice - both times longshots were in the money - once for a payout of $2,200 and once for a payout of $1800

when that happened I didn't know WTF was going on - could this stupid system really be a winner?

so, I decided to go over a ton of past statistics to see if it could possibly really be a winner

and guess what: you guessed it - the system was definitely not a winner - I was just lucky - and the writer was a fraud
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March 22nd, 2020 at 7:24:04 AM permalink
Quote: lilredrooster

it's not from gambling but anyway
in the 80s companies had this thing ESOP - employee stock ownership plans
my small company gave every employee including me 100 shares - it was a penny stock - it was worth almost nothing - I forgot about it

years later when it was completely forgotten I got a letter
my old company had been bought out and my shares were now worth $5,000.
at that time, $5K was a pretty good sum of money for me
I almost lost consciousness


Back in the early 80s I worked for a small (200 person) software company that got bought by British Petroleum. For organizational and legal reasons we ended up as part of BP North America. The main responsibility of BPNA at the time was their Purdhoe Bay oil fields in Alaska, something we down in Silicon Valley had absolutely no involvement with. We went about doing our thing and they pretty much ignored us.
About 2 years later BP lawyers figured out some sort of tax scam centered on the profits from the Alaskan oil. Every US employee of BPNA was given a bunch of BP shares thru an ESOP. Under the ESOP rules I couldn't sell the shares until either I was no longer employed by a BP subsidiary or 5 years (which ever came first). When I changed jobs in 1987 I immediately sold my shares. Ended up with just under $70K. being a young hippie hacker it didn't really sink in and I just stuck it in a bank and ignored. Ahh youth.
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March 22nd, 2020 at 12:02:27 PM permalink
Way back in 1975/76 I met a man at an OTB who showed me a hidden secret. Back then, a comic strip named Moon Mullins used to appear, not on the comic page, but on the horse racing page. The man told me the secret code that was inside the strip and how people in the know used it to make bets on two races each day. For five days, I watched it and all five days ,it seemed to pick at least one winner.
Thinking I had been given some priceless information, I told my Dad about it and asked for a loan to get started. Rather than discourage me, he offered to lend me $500 on one condition. I go to the library, get three months worth of newspapers and document the results of the system. About halfway through, the results were mixed when my father threw a twist into it. He said from now on, also record the results on the two horse on either side of the horses the comic picked. It turned out , to my surprise, that simply betting any one post position would give better results and there was no hidden message in the strip. Dream crushed.
I still have no idea why that comic strip was always on the racing page. Maybe I just misunderstood the key to deciphering it.
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