One of my favorite Vegas stories involves a pretty risk averse friend of ours, LL, who went to Vegas for the first time during a New Year’s that I am sure she will never forget.
It’s actually a good tale of the magic that is Vegas. Basically it goes like this…
“The Schinde” loves this slot machine at New York New York, called appropriately $100 or nothing. Basically you put in a dollar and if you get 777 you win $100. Anything else gets you nothing. Easy enough.
So we find ourselves all kinda grouped around this machine watching one dollar after the next go in with no pay out. Schnide is hypnotized by this machine and swears that it will pay out, it always does. MDF’s wife was about to play since it was her turn, but was looking for a dollar. While she is doing that, LL is on the phone with her mom telling her how much fun she is having even though she has not gambled one bit and we are on day 3 of the trip.
I think it was Lori who convinced LL to put a dollar into the machine and give it a spin. LL begrudgingly gives in and pulls out one of her hard earned dollars, puts it in the machine and pulls the lever. And wouldn’t you know it, the tumblers on the machine read 777.
Now we are all freaking out to various degrees and the look on LL’s face was priceless. She was still on the phone with her mom and was telling her how she won! Total pandemonium.
So of course LL promptly hits the cash out button, grabs the winning ticket, cashes out, and never plays another thing while we are there.
Going home we were all doing the financial math in our heads, the obligatory “up or down” as one tends to do while leaving Vegas. I think that LL was the only one who went home up, and by $99 at that!
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Ah, what can I say? Vegas gets to even the best of us. That was the best hundo moment ever (pun intended). Too bad for Schnide, though. Lost a few Benjamines on that bad boy. What are the chances?
Only in Vegas baby, only in Vegas.
- The one and only, LL
P.S. When are we going back?
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
You know it LL. New Year’s is looking sweet this year (when is it not?). You game? You can even bring the Sasafrass if you like. I am sure it will be an eye-opening experience for him too!
September 8th, 2008 at 1:17 am
You seem to have forgotten that immediately after LL cashed out and grabbed her ticket, Schnide put in a single dollar bill and also won $100… yes, on the very next pull of the handle.
September 12th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I believe the machine should be remaned “thousands for a hundred”, in honor of our good friend Schnide, who has certainly put in thousands of dollars in search of the big hundred dollar win!
September 12th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Haha. That’s so true!
October 24th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
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