Friends, I don’t gamble or bet on anything all that much. In my younger days, I did, but now that I am in my mid-40s I like to spend my money on other things.
It was more of one of those evening-out things for me instead of some of the people that actually have to call that toll-free number about gambling being a problem.
When my wife and I first got married, there was a restaurant that we would go to that was less than five minutes from a casino.
So we would go in and each put down twenty bucks on whatever game we were playing and that would be the end of it.
One time though we hit it relatively big. I was ready to cash out on a video blackjack machine when my wife told me to hit bet all. So I did, and was a little more than nervous about the prospect of losing everything we had won.
Imagine my relief when I got a blackjack and the dealer busted.
You have never seen someone cash out of a machine so fast in your life. Now, that was just one random evening after dinner and was a relatively small amount of money that spawned from a twenty dollar bet.
I can’t imagine if I put down five dollars on a bet and my life totally changed after.
For example, the Venetian casino in Las Vegas made an announcement recently that one gambler at their casino turned a five-dollar bet into two million dollars plus during a game of Pai Gow.
When a $5 side bet turns into $2,211,469! A very lucky guest was dealt a seven card straight flush while playing Face Up Pai Gow. This was the largest Pai Gow Progressive paid out in the resort’s history. Who’s feeling lucky? 😎 pic.twitter.com/gF2P05lkpZ
— The Venetian Resort Las Vegas (@VenetianVegas) July 24, 2024
It was a five-dollar side bet on a seven card straight flush. Now, for those of you who don’t play a lot of poker, that is EXTREMELY rare and as such, the bet itself carries approximately x44,000 odds.
Of course, this means that a simple five-dollar side bet will net you about 2.2 million dollars.
It’s funny, I mean I would get happy when my wife would turn that twenty bucks I told you about earlier into a couple hundred.
If I turned five dollars into two million dollars, they’d have to carry my ass out of there.