Jamericannn Posted July 29, 2017 #1 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Have you ever hit a jackpot or won anything big in the casino? I just play it for for (with hope to win). I don't usually bet big so when/if I win it usually minimal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firemanbobswife Posted July 29, 2017 #2 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Won $1000 at Bingo on the Liberty and I won the watch raffle once on the Glory. That's about it for me. My mom won like $800 on the Glory on slots. Not a huge amount, but better than nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idraconis Posted July 29, 2017 #3 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I did win $150 playing bingo. And two cruise mates won gambling. One hit for $1800 playing dollar slots and the another $1100 playing nickel slots. People do win, there are always a few on every cruise. But the house always comes out ahead. That's why it's called a game of chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoDidly Posted July 29, 2017 #4 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Gambling on ships is like trying to squeeze prune juice from an apple :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d12j28 Posted July 29, 2017 #5 Share Posted July 29, 2017 My wife hit for $1500 and a $1000 on penny slots. Me, I just gave it all back........:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury me at sea Posted July 29, 2017 #6 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I budget how much I want to donate for a bit of entertainment and the slots get my entire donation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towel Critter Posted July 29, 2017 #7 Share Posted July 29, 2017 My wife and I budget twenty bucks each to play penny slots each cruise, just because it's fun. My wife won around $250 once. The most I've ever won was seventy-something. When we've spent our $20 we walk away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badfinger Posted July 29, 2017 #8 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Have you ever hit a jackpot or won anything big in the casino? I just play it for for (with hope to win). I don't usually bet big so when/if I win it usually minimal. Never. But the only time I gambled was when Carnival provided $80 of Casino OBC. I played Blackjack $6 minimum. Played for about 2 hours and became bored. Went back to my cabin with $82 in chips. Returned a couple day later and after an hour was bored again. I then played another twenty minutes or so until I had $74 in chips (I wanted to have four $1 chips in my stack). I kept the four $1 chips to have as souvenirs (actually golf ball markers) and cashed out the remaining $70. Funny the high rolling gal next to me told me I really was not playing very well...not making smart moves....as she kept having to buy more chips. All I did was follow the exact same rules the dealer plays by. IMO you just lose slower following that approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micahs Grandad Posted July 29, 2017 #9 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Gambling on ships is like trying to squeeze prune juice from an apple :D But think of all the free drinks they will give you for your donation:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillBilly Bob Posted July 29, 2017 #10 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I keep my "spending money" in my left pocket and my "winnings" in my right pocket. When both are empty, I go to the buffet......vbg..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First and Ten Posted July 29, 2017 #11 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I normally don't play any game in the casino other than poker (Craps looks interesting, I am just to much of a novice and don't understand the game enough to risk $). For me, playing Black Jack or slots is akin to watching paint dry or grass grow. Slots is mindless and boring. Black Jack is barely any better. One cruise I entered a Poker tourney. $100 buyin and there were 9 of us. Fortunate enough to win so that was $800 (The ship had to get their rake of course [emoji57]). DW was going to meet me in Casino for dinner. She still wasn't there, so I sat down at I believe was either a 3 card poker table/Caribbean poker....Within 6 hands of playing, I was up another $1000. Lost the next hand, I got up, handed the dealer $100 (he couldn't believe I was leaving), walked away. Just then my wife came down. She was very happy to find out she had some extra spending $$$$ for that nights jewelry sale [emoji16] Sent from my iPad using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin13 Posted July 29, 2017 #12 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I once won $1000 playing Black Jack one night! Was one of the best times I have ever had playing. It was a table of girls and we closed down the casino that night. That was many cruises ago and I never duplicated that again (lol). As for the slots I pretty much break even as they are very tight on the cruise ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evandbob Posted July 29, 2017 #13 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I've had about 6 jackpots over $2K playing quarter slots on 32 Carnival cruises. The highest was almost $4K on a quarter machine. Carnival always reported these wins to the IRS. Once on Celebrity I hit for $2500, no questions or IRS involved. I wonder if people realize that in order to hit a jackpot, or even some of the other top prizes, you must be playing max credits, whatever the denomination, from penny slots to hi rollers. The only exception might be a poker machine. I've seen people play for one unit, hit a jackpot, and then stare at the machine when it doesn't pay off. Blazing 7's come to mind. Some of the new penny slots take $8.88 max, so I try to avoid those and play 3 max @ the quarter, half dollar and dollar level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port of Tampa Posted July 29, 2017 #14 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Yes I have hit big on video poker 2x and let it ride several times. Hopefully the casino gods will be on my side for our upcoming September cruise. Cheers, good luck and happy cruising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candigirl41 Posted July 29, 2017 #15 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I was playing let it ride poker on the Carnival Elation and the first 3 cards were all diamonds, so I let it ride and two more diamonds came up I was also playing the pair plus bet. My only problem was I had the Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Nine. I missed the royal flush by one card. It would have paid about $17,500. I think I won about $750.00 so still a nice win but what a disappointment. I now only play slots as I don't have any extra cash to play let it ride. I did well on Norwegian last October winning $100.00 several times on a 2 cent slot for 50 cents a bet. I actually came home with more cash than I left with on that cruise. I was able to purchase all my souvenirs in port with cash. Candi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiritkat090909 Posted July 29, 2017 #16 Share Posted July 29, 2017 :D My husband last October on the Freedom... playing the table game Ultimate Texas Hold 'em. Minimum bet was $5 and a single hand ends up costing a minimum of $20. He was betting the max bet $25 per and had bet before the flop an Ace/Queen off suit. So, he had $150 on the hand and another $25 on the sucker side bet. I think there was four to the Royal Flush on the board and the card missing was the Queen. When the other players had the other 2 Queens he realized...HE had the Royal. I've never seen him so flustered. I had gotten up and went to the room for something and was gone about 10 mins. I sat back down and he said...somebody has the RF. It paid $14k. He gave everyone at the table a black chip (6 or 7 players) and tipped the dealers somewhere around $1500, I think. He kept playing and before I made him stop for dinner he had won back all the money he had given away. We paid off our ship account, started charging everything we could and still had to report excess of $10k with customs. It was easy...and we got out of town QUICKLY on embarkation! And as an added bonus... it was on the last night of the cruise and the casino still hasn't gotten it back!!!! lol But, we've gotten a couple of really good offers I REALLY wanted to take...and would have if work would have allowed the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deborahjo Posted July 29, 2017 #17 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I won $100 on a Wheel of Fortune machine. Best I have ever done at one time. Sent from my iPhone using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyPiglet Posted July 30, 2017 #18 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I won a "Carnival Players Club" hat out of the quarter pusher machine... does that count? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyeomans Posted July 30, 2017 #19 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I'm hoping I hit at least a little something when we go in just a couple of weeks! My family loves the slots, so I'm sure my dad (not a big gambler) will be having to drag my mom and me out of the casino several times! Sent from my SM-G935V using Forums mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingomamma19 Posted July 30, 2017 #20 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Have you ever hit a jackpot or won anything big in the casino? I just play it for for (with hope to win). I don't usually bet big so when/if I win it usually minimal. My first cruise in 2009 on the Fascination--won $5000 on a .50 bet on a slot, went on to win the slot tournament for $500, bingo for $750 and some other odd amounts on slots---walked of the boat with over $7000 in cash!! 3 years ago (on breeze) bought a bingo package that included 5 of those long pull tabs--won $2000 on one of those pull tabs, last night of that cruise won over $1000 on a $1.35 bet on a slot--walked off with over $3000 in cash. Those were the big hits...I normally bring about $500 per cruise to gamble. A few times, lost it all, a few times came back with some of it and those 2 big cruises won a ton :) Taking my 10th cruise in October Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdGuyMG Posted July 30, 2017 #21 Share Posted July 30, 2017 On the Freedom a few years ago my 20 something son, who likes roulette, on 3 different nights hit the exact number and each paid out about $750. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goofy gopher Posted July 30, 2017 #22 Share Posted July 30, 2017 On the Vista I won 500 free play on a drawing and then same cruise I won 250 free play on Hot seat drawing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb at sea Posted July 30, 2017 #23 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Gambling on ships is like trying to squeeze prune juice from an apple :D Ain't that the truth!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djptcp Posted July 30, 2017 #24 Share Posted July 30, 2017 In 41 cruises, I have had about 10 or more Royal Flushes on video poker ($1,000 each). On our last cruise on the Paradise, I played a slot machine most of the 5 days where I won a $300 jackpot at least 6 times playing $.60 per play. Also won 10 $60 mini-jackpots on the same machine. Not huge amounts, but enough so that I brought home almost all the cash I brought for gambling those 5 days. Doesn't usually happen that way though. DH won $1,100 on a Three Card Poker hand on Holland America plus he had a bet for the dealer who won over $300 on that hand. The dealer started to hyperventilate she was so excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikel24m Posted July 30, 2017 #25 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Only one we ever hit was $1000 on dollar wheel of fortune on Princess. I walked up put in a $20 and first spin $1000 smackeroos. Lost a few thousand on that trip ;) Very hard to win at slots on cruise ships so we go in expecting to lose...and are rarely disappointed Sent from my ZTE A2017U using Forums mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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