luvs2beachit Posted June 22, 2006 #126 Share Posted June 22, 2006 On the Legend last year I won $2500 on the first night playing the 10x quarter machine. Two nights later I won $2500 again on a different 10x machine. DH was in the cabin sleeping when I came in from the 2nd win so I decided to wake him by dropping the $100 bills on his head. It worked. He woke up and asked me what I was doing and I explained that I had won again on the slot machine. I was so excited and thought that he would be too but all he said was "did they give you another 1099"!?!?!?! Spoken like a true CPA!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwuzCwazy Posted June 25, 2006 #127 Share Posted June 25, 2006 I feel like a piker here, since so many have won some big payoffs....Wife and I won $1000 on Bingo before a show one evening on the Sensation...used it to pay off our S&S card and still had cash left over.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asylver1 Posted July 7, 2006 #128 Share Posted July 7, 2006 I won on two separate Wheel of Fortune slot machines, I think on the Fantasy, just one night apart. I won a high jackpot spin on a $1 machine, $500, the other was the quarter machine, $250. It was great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asylver1 Posted July 7, 2006 #129 Share Posted July 7, 2006 I also did really well in Blackjack my last cruise on the Century, a couple of hundred each night... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otempora90 Posted July 20, 2006 #130 Share Posted July 20, 2006 well, when I went on my second cruise, we were on the Disney Magic, and my whole family went to watch Who Wants to be a Mousketeer? (only because I forced them-- I was 12) it's basically where they pick random people from the audience to play who wants to be a millionaire? well my brother got picked(he was 14) and my dad got to go up with him since he was under 18. anyway, they got up to the second to last level, $500 and they got that question right. when they asked the last question ( Idont remember what it was), my brother didn't know the answer, so they took the $500 shipboard credit. when the host asked him what answer he would have given, the answer he gave would have been correct! which means he would have gotten a free cruise for 2. oh well, he bought me a really ptretty necklace. haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloryhound65 Posted July 21, 2006 #131 Share Posted July 21, 2006 On my last night on the Glory, I took my last 25 dollars (last 25 allocated for gambling) to the roulette table, sat down, and began to play the dozen bets at 2:1 odds. I won steadily for the next three or four hours and walked away from the table with 2700 bucks. That WAY more than offset my previous losses over the past few days (but I had won some on some other days, too) and left me WELL ahead. Roulette is the game I enjoy most when I'm winning. When I'm losing, I don't enjoy any game. I'm not likely to get addicted because winning is always followed by losing, eventually. When you win, RUN AWAY. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamondf467 Posted July 24, 2006 #132 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I won a free cruise from Bingo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleasan7 Posted August 4, 2006 #133 Share Posted August 4, 2006 I put a drawing in for the first NCL cruise you see listed below. It was at a grocery store - Cruise with the NASCAR racers. Now that was fun! Meeting and getting autographs and hearing stories about their race days. Love the whole cruise, Carol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teach2travel Posted August 8, 2006 #134 Share Posted August 8, 2006 On a recent cruise on the Elation, I won $1000.00 at bingo on the final night. Was such a shock . . I NEVER win at anything! But then, I think just being on a cruise is lucky!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEBJR Posted September 29, 2006 #135 Share Posted September 29, 2006 I won another cruise on my last NCL cruise in August at bingo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OHippieChick Posted October 3, 2006 #136 Share Posted October 3, 2006 My boyfriend at the time, husband, now,and I were on Navigator of the Seas. On the second day of our cruise, he proposed, and, as you may have guessed, I said yes!! Then, on New Year's Day, he hit a Royal Flush playing Caribbean Stud!!! I am not real sure of the total, somewhere around $26,000!! They paid him in cash, and I had to carry it home in my purse!! Guess what they gave him in the casino to carry it back to the room in?? A slot machine coin cup!! CRAZY!! That was my first cruise! Well, to be honest, it was my first time I had been on more than a 2 night get away in 25 years!! Needless to say, I am addicted to cruising now!! We have been on 3 more in the last year and a half, and one planned already for January! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruzecrittor1 Posted October 3, 2006 #137 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Won? I don't care how much; just to know people win is a source of encouragment to me...since I lose most of the time:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citcatt1 Posted October 5, 2006 #138 Share Posted October 5, 2006 I won $1200.00 dollars on our last cruise, on the same slot machine. I got the jackpot twice which was 400.00 then I won 200.00 twice. Loved that slot machine! :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celbercrz333 Posted October 16, 2006 Author #139 Share Posted October 16, 2006 citcatt, Isn't that the way? On our last cruise there was this one slot machine that if it didn't win big, at least you'd win back whatever you put in it. Every time we saw someone use it they got something back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuttmegg101 Posted October 20, 2006 #140 Share Posted October 20, 2006 We cruised on NCL Dawn last November for our honeymoon. One afternoon, I dragged the DH down to play bingo, he went kicking and screaming. I won nothing on bingo! After the games were over, they told us to come back the following morning and they would draw the raffle tickets that they had handed out to every person who played bingo, this would be the big prize. Well, the DH said that there was no sense in going in the morning because there were so many people with tickets that we werent going to win. Well, again I dragged him the next morning kicking and screaming down to the lounge where they were going to have the drawing. He fell asleep in the chair and they called my ticket number. I woke him up and told him that we had won and he told me to stop playing and then he drifted back off to sleep. I then went up on stage to claim my prize. The person sitting next to my DH woke him up again and told him that I was up on stage and that I had won a free 7 day cruise. He looked over said "I hope shes's right or she just embarrased both of us." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celbercrz333 Posted November 6, 2006 Author #141 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Nuttmegg, That's funny. But hey, if one of you win, that's the important part!!! I wind up sitting and watching my husband play the machines because he is the winner. I lose the money I put in my machines. How did he feel when you actually got ready to go on the cruise that you won? He won't take you for granted ever again, right??? LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave59 Posted December 1, 2006 #142 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Really neat thread. The wife and I enjoy just relaxing around the slots once in awhile. We always have a limit and try not to cheat. We have hit several nice pots over several cruises. But last year we were sitting in a quiet corner...three machine apart. I wasn't even watching the wheels...just talking to her. All of a sudden the music started playing on my machine. It took me a second to do the math...$50x10x10=$5,000. I almost fainted. Well, after about a half hour of signing tax forms and getting paid in 100's and having a very nice chat with the casino manager who was from the states, I walked down to give the wife a hug. She quietly had built her machine up to $1,400 without saying a word. She said, "It didn't seem like much compared to yours!?!?!" During the cruise we had become good friends with a family we had met through our CC board last year. They had lost some in the casino during the trip. After the show on the last night I talked the wife into going with us back to the casino for one last shot. She put a 20 in the machine I had won on and hit $1,200 on the first play. Needless to say, we became even better friends. We've discovered something over the years...we give it away in the quarter machines over a long period of time, then get it all back in one pull on a dollar machine. We're looking forward to our next cruise next March. We "might" spend a couple of hours in the casino:D Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onceagain Posted December 1, 2006 #143 Share Posted December 1, 2006 :D I won a poem contest on a Princess cruise and had a big canvas bag delivered to my room. It was just packed with goodies, picture frame, mug, umbrella, candy, magnets, pen set, lots more, but I can't remember it all. They read it on air too so it was fun! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celbercrz333 Posted December 6, 2006 Author #144 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Dave59, Wow, you are really a winner and so is your wife. Next time you cruise I'd lit to sit next to you to see if any of that luck brushes off on me, lololol. --Jo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave59 Posted December 7, 2006 #145 Share Posted December 7, 2006 Jo, That's funny. Let's see...we're sailing on NCL Pearl on March 30...wanna go along? On 2nd thought, knowing how those machines have a way of gettinjg even, you better stay away from us...we're doomed! The neat part of that story that I didn't share was that when we left the casino that night, I went and checked my e-mail only to discover that one of our married children back home was in serious financial trouble. Our next island found us at a bank wiring money home. We came away from that entire thing saying, "yes there is a God and He must be able to even work through slot machines." :) Good luck Jo! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastrock Posted December 7, 2006 #146 Share Posted December 7, 2006 I won a ship on a stick. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajpd2 Posted December 22, 2006 #147 Share Posted December 22, 2006 My wife won $2500.00 last year on the Sun Princess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suezyq50 Posted December 26, 2006 #148 Share Posted December 26, 2006 In June DH won art at the auction, than had to pay $80 for handling and shipping!:eek: Never again will we caught up in that kind of winning. This past Dec. DH won $60 at the table. Sort of off set the art shipping.:rolleyes: DD won $160 at bingo. It was exciting for her as this was her first cruise. Her husband won $30 at the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebeljohn Posted January 14, 2007 #149 Share Posted January 14, 2007 My wife and I don't gamble, so you can imagine her suprise when I suggested we put in a few dimes on a machine that was stationed by the casino door(we were waiting for the photo shop to open). The wife popped in 5 dimes(max bet) and pulled the lever. The machine lit up like the Forth of July and payed off $275. "Great", she said, "Now we can buy more pictures!!!" We still haven't gambled since............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kathywin53 Posted January 14, 2007 #150 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Our Cruise Critic m&m group organized the purchase of a horse on the bids for our Brilliance cruise. Had great fun on the thread with it. Was a big part of our onship gathering of the Krispy Kruisers (group of potentially sunburnt people who enjoy Krispy Kreme donuts). We each paid $20 and the group of 22 (I think was the number) won $1500..nice profit and most went back to the ship via the casino and shops :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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