Who has hit it big in the casino?

[evandbob]

Legend, 25 cent slot, won $3,750 and had to give my SSN for tax purposes.

[ccruisequeen]

$300 butterfly 7's accidentally hit max and got a row of 7's and a triple. It kept spinning and after 20 minutes of the numbers rolling, I finally hit a button to stop it at $300. Cashed out with $400 in my players bank.

 

Edited May 15, 2014 by ccruisequeen

[beberenn]

Friends we were cruising with won $5000 on Let it Ride. We've never won big in the casino, but win bingo almost every cruise. We are probably at over $2000 in bingo wins.

 

 

That's awesome! I've never won!!

 

 

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[beberenn]

Just returned off the Pride (Mother's Day) and I won $2000 and $1600 on one of the video poker machines against the back wall. I was playing Deuces Wild with 10 credits for a $1.00 denomination ($10 a pull).

 

 

 

I also saw a woman hit $2000, $2000 and then $4000 on the SAME machine in about 30 minutes! She was playing Triple Bonus for max credits-$.50 ($2.50 a pull). She was playing the video poker machine furthest from the window against the back wall!

 

 

 

It was a very lucky trip for me as I also hit 8 straight flushes and one three of a kind at the Three Card Poker table as well. Earned a free cruise but won't be going as I don't have the money to gamble :( !! LOL!!!

 

 

30 days and I will b back on the pride, maybe I should try video poker, I have never played it!!

 

 

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[beberenn]

The hubby won $2500 from the cash vault on our first night on the Legend in April. Best $2 ever spent!

 

 

Amazing!! Bet that was the beginning of a great, stress free cruise ! No worries about huge bar bills at the end of the week!

 

 

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[okgirl]

I've won several times over the years. It's not unusual for me to win $500 or even $1000 on the WOF or Monte Carlo machine when spinning the big wheel. Also on the WOF $1 machine on the Glory and the Conquest I had a combination reel spin winning $2500 each time, then on the Valor when I was waiting on the WOF to be available I sat down next to it at a .25 machine and won $2000 jackpot on a .75 cent bet.

[Ladydarcy1]

Last week on the Sunshine I did one of those things I thought "never happens". I hit the progressive jackpot on a penny machine. I won $3241.84. The funny thing is I play slots all the time (on cruises and at a casino back home) and I did't realize I'd hit the jackpot until the guy playing the machine behind me told me I had LOL.

[Not_Done_Living]

My wife has won enough on each of our cruises to pay for the cruise. I just lose :)

 

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[CruisingSteelerGirl]

Hubby has won the iPad2 +$500 playing the "Cash Vault" twice now. He won it the first time on our very first cruise the first time he put a $5 bill in after watching people play it and lose. The second time we took the cash option instead of the iPad2 since we had already won it previously so we ended up walking away with $1500. It was nice!

 

How??? Is there a secret??? lol.

[CruisingSteelerGirl]

On my last cruise I found that if I put a $20 in the machine without my sail and sign card...I would hit more often than if I had my sail in sign card in the machine...

 

I hit for around $500...but gave it back by the end of cruise. all good..

[Island Hopping]

I won $800 and the wife won $450 on the same penny slot on our last day on the Victory a few years ago. Most of the time we are on the loosing end. :)

[mikel24m]

How??? Is there a secret??? lol.

 

No secret lol. They had a thread about it on here awhile ago and its random just like any other slot and pays off after so many attempts or "coin" in. It looks really easy to do and when you attempt to stop it to get the key into the hole the arm continues to move a very ,very small amount so your off just a tiny bit ;). Just like any other casino game someone must win or no one would play

[mikel24m]

I've never hit it big, but I have witnessed those around me on the slots hitting jackpots of several thousand dollars. On two cruises it seemed to be people that never leave a specific machine, and are well known to the staff.

 

We tried this our last cruise and it worked out pretty well for us. We found a few games that paid well and parked our butts on them most of the cruise and didn't lose that much. We would play our winnings though but we only played a few machines sort of like home with our favorite games or new games

Edited May 15, 2014 by mikel24m

[sjn911]

These winning stories just floor me. I did not even bet a nickel on my 2 Carnival cruises and have probably bought a retail Coach purse worth every year with the lottery since...I do not want to say...I still play the lottery but not 2 times a week anymore...LOL.

 

I have probably lost about 250.00 over my life on slots and won maybe 50...these win stories tell me I should at least play 20 bucks or something per cruise..LOL..Carnival will love this thread.

Edited May 15, 2014 by sjn911

[618mom]

My wife has won enough on each of our cruises to pay for the cruise. I just lose :)

 

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That is us but my husband wins and I lose. On our last and only cruise so far (55 more days till #2!) my husband won around $800.

 

When we go to the casinos here at home I just keep my playing money and go shopping afterwards lol

[Shaded Lady]

I cruised on my birthday one year and my birthday wish was just to spend the morning vegging on the Lido deck and the afternoon in the casino. I spent $20, won $125! the only time I've ever come out ahead in any casino!

 

My DH & I usually make a game out of who can make $20 last the longest in the casino on our one & only visit.

[USNUZULOOSE]

Wasn't us, but on our cruise in 09 someone hit a 98 thousand dollar jackpot on the slots. And behind them someone hit 10K all at the same time.

[beachbum53]

I cruised on my birthday one year and my birthday wish was just to spend the morning vegging on the Lido deck and the afternoon in the casino. I spent $20, won $125! the only time I've ever come out ahead in any casino!

 

My DH & I usually make a game out of who can make $20 last the longest in the casino on our one & only visit.

 

That's about what we do. After reading about the jackpots that some have won, I guess winning $20.00 isn't such a big deal. My DW made that twenty dollars disappear pretty quickly in one of the gift shops. Oh well. Next time, I think I'll let her go to the casino while I have fun on the water slide.:D

[BlondieB]

The most I've ever won was $600 on a bonus spin type machine (like the Wheel of Fortune) aboard the Magic on the last night. I ran it back down to around $540 before I cashed out and called it quits.

 

Won $300 on the first spin of a $20 bill on the Ecstasy on a Wheel of Fortune

[maldenmusic]

Not me.....$75 at the most but I only play penny slots and splurge on the quarter slots occasionally :D

[tncap]

Our roll call slot pull hit $1,000 on the Wheel of Fortune slot. You would have thought we hit $10,000 the way we were hootin' and hollerin'.

[USA41018]

Won $500 on quarter slots once and won $500 on slot tournament.

[ALWAYZCRUISEN]

I won $2000.00 on pull tabs you get from bingo and $400.00 on a slot machine. My husband won $1000.00 on the cash vault.

[TahoeBob]

I've heard (and who knows if it's true) that at the beginning of the cruise the slots are looser and get tightened up at the end.

This is not true at all, a friend of mine has been in the casino industry for over 40 years, 20 working for NCL as a casino manager. The reason this not done is because there is very little room for changing the slot machine payout rate.

 

the second reason this does not happen is because the house always wins, my friend told me that he can only remember about 5-10 times that the casino that the casino did not meet there projected income levels.

 

I spent over 10 years in the casino industry in slots.

[daledoe]

Do any of the Ships have Video Blackjack? Rather than a live dealer?