I went to Vegas in 2018 with some high school buddies - to put some context on it we are in very different tax brackets. One of them sold a company for a few million in the early 2000s and has since gone on to other CTO roles and whatnot - and another is an EVP at a bank. I'm doing fine, but my annual income is at best 20% of those guys. So we head down and head out to eat and whatnot and their choices exhaust my expected funds pretty quickly.
Day 3 we're out at the $5 tables and one of my friends had to leave so I sat in for him. He'd started at $100, was down to about . . . maybe $30? Anyway, I got lucky and took his $30 up to about $250 or something. That night we went back grabbed a seat and the hands me his $250 and says, "You won it. It's yours," and we all play . . . and I poop you not - it had to be 20 minutes, maybe less - we were wiped out. The dealer just kept landing blackjack after blackjack.
- Monkeypunk
Almost 2 years from this date I turned a $10 bet on golf into $300. I bet $10 on the sat for Homa to win. He was 30-1 to win at the time. He went to a playoff and on the playoff he put it in the bunker short and the guy he played with hit to 8’. Homa chunked his bunker shot and my cashout was $1.00. Homa then went onto chip in for birdie (par 5) and the other guy 3 putted from 8’ to make par and Homa won.
I then took that $300 into blackjack (online) and turned it into $27000 over the course of about 3 weeks. Thought of it as free money and was betting big numbers. Over the the thanksgiving long week 2 years ago I had a few drinks and ended up losing it all.
3 days after I deposited $1000 because I was pissed I lost all that. I turned $1000 into $21000 in about 45 mins and cashed out.
It wrecked my mentals for awhile and I do not recommend. Guilt was huge.
That adrenaline high is crazy though. Words has never been my thing but I’ve been playing cards since I was a kid. Probability and math is definitely helpful but luck is a female dog sometimes.
