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mndity

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Has anybody ever won it big in a casino on a ship? I won $300.00 playing blackjack on the Serenade last week and it got me thinking what the biggest winnings ever were.

 

Won $5000 on Independence playing slots Feb 2008....... loved being in International waters..... No 1099s!!!

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My DH had to split his 1st place winnings in the Blackjack tourney on Liberty, but our share was $375 and he got the Tshirt too. But it is now a size child's small after 2 or 3 washings!;) I can say he's lost all that in entrance fees since then!:cool: And I've got plenty of key chains.:rolleyes:

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I can't believe you didn't get a 1099 for $5,000 win. I won $1250 and they gave me a 1099. Told me US citizens had to get one. I was so annoyed. A few years ago on the Empress OTS I hit a keno machine for $825 and then walked over to a 3 card poker table my husband was playing at and put $10 and $10 on the pairs plus and ante and got a straight flush for I think was about $700. The very next day I hit the keno machine next to the one from the day before and then walked over to the 3 card table again and got another straight flush dealt to me. First and last time that happened.

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Husband won $1500 at the Crap table on Voyager in 2008. Then he just won the slot tourney on Navigator in April, $225 and some prizes. My best was a $100 raffel on the Navigator.

 

But we have won bingo a few times, all on the Vision.:D

 

 

That's awesome! I am trying to figure craps out. I was watching but i don't fully understand it yet....yet. LOL!

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My husband won $75 once on a poker machine. It was a big deal to us since we rarely gamble and when we do, we have $10 each.

 

It was formal night, he was in his tux, so I called him James Bond the rest of the evening.

 

I found $40 on the floor of a casino in Vegas once, about 20 years ago. It paid for lunch, I wasn't gambling, just walking through.

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I keep reading about the Poker Crawl...can someone please tell me what exactly that is?

 

Thanks.

 

I believe it is a number of cruisers who get together and all throw $10/20 into the pot and they go a slot machine, play all the money, and divide the winnings (if there are any). It is a way to get together and meet each other and have a bit of fun!!! I don't think anyone is thinking they are making any money.

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We call that a "slot pull" when a bunch of us get together to pool money to play a slot machine.

 

I think the Poker crawl is when a cabin crawl is organized and you draw a card in each cabin. At the last cabin whoever has the best poker hand wins. I guess each person playing puts money into a pot for the winner.

 

Might be wrong but I think that's what it is.

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I won $500 about 10 years ago on the quarter slots --- still have the money --- afraid if I spend it my luck will go bad --- crazy I know. I refer to the money as my "emergency fund."

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Biggest jackpot I won at sea was $1,440 on Navigator in November playing quarter slots. But the funny thing was the machine only registered the win as $3.75. Yea, less than five bucks. I knew what I had won. I play slots, I know slots, I know what the payouts should be when I'm playing a slot machine. I had lined up a "twelve times" "twelve times" "double bar". Double bars paid 40 credits. So the win should have been 144 x 40. But it only registered 15 credits. So I got an attendant and showed him. He said "oh you have to push the cash out button for it to register the win". Uhh...no...not usually. But he pushed it and sure enough it spit out the ticket for 15 credits. He said he'd go get someone and a casino manager came by and looked at it. After a moment he said "Yea, it should have been 144 x 40, I'll be right back". Few minutes later he came back and said they were going to pay the $1,440 and then shut the machine down after that because it obviously wasn't programmed right.

 

So I DID get the money I was supposed to, but I was waiting for them to deny me the jackpot due to that little phrase we're all so familiar with..."malfunction voids all plays and pays". I wondered, too, if they paid me anyway because I was a Club Royale member. If I hadn't been, would they have paid? Who knows. I sure would have been miffed if they wouldn't have. I guess I should have known something was wrong with the machine when it kept paying me 2 credits for a cherry instead of the 3 credits that was listed on the paytable. But I kept playing it anyway.

 

I had three other payouts during that 4-night cruise totaling around $1,000. I brought home $2,000 which, after deducting the $300 that I had spent, left me $1,700 ahead. That short cruise was the best I'd done at sea. Of course on the Enchantment two months earlier I had NO luck and spent, spent, spent!

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Biggest jackpot I won at sea was $1,440 on Navigator in November playing quarter slots. But the funny thing was the machine only registered the win as $3.75. Yea, less than five bucks. I knew what I had won. I play slots, I know slots, I know what the payouts should be when I'm playing a slot machine. I had lined up a "twelve times" "twelve times" "double bar". Double bars paid 40 credits. So the win should have been 144 x 40. But it only registered 15 credits. So I got an attendant and showed him. He said "oh you have to push the cash out button for it to register the win". Uhh...no...not usually. But he pushed it and sure enough it spit out the ticket for 15 credits. He said he'd go get someone and a casino manager came by and looked at it. After a moment he said "Yea, it should have been 144 x 40, I'll be right back". Few minutes later he came back and said they were going to pay the $1,440 and then shut the machine down after that because it obviously wasn't programmed right.

 

So I DID get the money I was supposed to, but I was waiting for them to deny me the jackpot due to that little phrase we're all so familiar with..."malfunction voids all plays and pays". I wondered, too, if they paid me anyway because I am a Club Royale member. If I hadn't been, would they have paid? Who knows. I sure would have been miffed if they wouldn't have. I guess I should have known something was wrong with the machine when it kept paying me 2 credits for a cherry instead of the 3 credits that was listed on the paytable. But I kept playing it anyway.

 

I had three other payouts during that 4-night cruise totaling around $1,000. That short cruise was the best I'd done at sea.

 

You're lucky they paid you and didn't call it a malfunction

 

On a ship, I've won a few hundred dollars, highest I think was like $800, but no hand pays.

Won $1336 last night at Hard Rock Tampa.

My highest ever was I think $8,000

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I was on Carnival once and they had a phonebooth full of money and they turned on the fan and the money flew and you had to grab as much money as you could in 30 seconds. I wish I could try that sometime. On the Sun Viking at Christmastime, my mother got a safe deposit box at the purser's desk and put about 200 in there for her gambling money. She went back later and it was full of $100 bills! She told the purser it wasn't her money and he got annoyed with her and told her no one else had access to her safe deposit box. She actually had to fight with them insisting it was not her money. Finally, they figured out it was the Christmas Bonus money for the whole crew and got put in her box by mistake! Way to go, my honest Mom....Maureen

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My husband won $75 once on a poker machine. It was a big deal to us since we rarely gamble and when we do, we have $10 each.

 

It was formal night, he was in his tux, so I called him James Bond the rest of the evening.

 

I found $40 on the floor of a casino in Vegas once, about 20 years ago. It paid for lunch, I wasn't gambling, just walking through.

 

 

Be happy that no casino employees saw you pick that 40 up off of the floor. Rules are if it is on the floor it belongs to the casino. If you take it they see it as theft.:eek:

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Be happy that no casino employees saw you pick that 40 up off of the floor. Rules are if it is on the floor it belongs to the casino. If you take it they see it as theft.:eek:

....Gee, if they're going to be THAT WAY about it, my Mom should have enjoyed HER Christmas Bonus....Maureen;);)

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