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Hi guys, just curious to hear some stories from you guys about literally hitting big on your first bet of the day. It's kinda cold in MN right now, and so I was playing poker at Canterbury. Well, i did ok... walked in with $100 playing 4/8 limit, and left with $200, so not bad right? Well I go out to the parking lot to start up my car to warm it up.

I see that race 11 at Sunland was about to go off in about 7 minutes, so I go back in to make a quick bet on that race while waiting for my car to warm up (I lock my keys in my car, and unlock it later with my spares). So I go up, bet a $1 exacta box on 3 horses. Well they win. 10-1 over 9-1 pays $136!!! Not bad huh?

Well it's not a monster score, but it got me to thinking about this question. Have you guys ever just arrived at an OTB, Track, Casino, whatever, just sit down to make your first bet, and hit big? And then just get up and go? It's what I did today when I hit that bet at Sunland. So overall I walked in with $100 and left with over $300... I don't think anyone would complain about that. I look forward to hear your guys' stories.

when Great Lakes Downs was open last summer, I went up to a jockey who was drinking at the bar and started talking to him. I guess not many people like him, but he was being cool to me. He gave me a horse he was on that he said was a real nice filly and would win at a good price the following day. I went back the next day with only $20, did a $5 w/p/s and $5 more to win on the filly he gave me. Went off at 18-1, stumbled at the start to dead last, cam flying up the rail to win rather easy. I left right after with a lot more money than I went in with. The fillys name is ImAnEvilOne, and I have seen her race about 5 times more since then, with nothing good from her.

She broke her maiden the race I bet her, guess I got lucky.

i swear this really happened.

my friend and i go to a card casino in los angeles. i have no interest in betting there, but my friend, steve, he goes in with $50 and the intent of putting it all on the first hand and parlaying it two more hands. if he wins those first three hands, he has seed money, if he loses any of those three, it's time to go home.

sure enough, he hits all three hands and in a few minutes, turned 50 into 400 bucks. after another couple of hours he's up to about 2,000 and decides we should go to vegas that night and play the bc the next day!

after the several hour drive we get there and he loses a bit of the money back before turning in for the night. we get up the next day and seeing the crowd, i decide to place all my bets early and watch the bc from the hotel room.

both of our best bet of the day was a horse named corwyn bay in the sprint. some horse in front of him has a heart attack and removes our horse from any chance of winning, and that pretty much set the tone for me for that day, as i ended up getting my ass kicked. steve too lost big on that race and a couple of other races i knew he bet on.

figuring that he was broke, i patiently waited for him in the room and when he shows up, he's got the biggest s.hit eating grin imaginable on his face. seems out of nowhere he came up with a pretty large bet on unbridled in the classic and he came up to show me his winning ticket. between unbridled and getting red hot at craps, he was now up to about 12,000!! i couldn't believe someone could turn $50 into 12,000 like that, but it's true, i saw it with my own eyes.

anyways, later that night he kicks me out of the room for a few hours as he hired a couple of hookers to come to the room. when i came back, he was gone, which could only mean one thing, he was back off to the casinos to try to make the hit of a lifetime.

by the time i saw him the next morning, he had just enough gas money left to make it back to LA. From $50 to $12,000 to under $50 in about 24 hours.

that dude was frickin nuts. easily the most compulsive gambler who was very obsessive. he's in jail now.

[quote=merasmag]You gave him crabs or he ate your crabby looking legs?

ima kidding dammit...

I cant top that.
Good night magma and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Can you do that for me at least.

I got the bad beat laid on me at Greektown about 3 years ago and the jackpot was 64k. I probably had 40 bucks into the game before the bad beat hand. The most incredible thing about the badbeat was the girl who was in the hand with me was underage. After we showed our cards and it qualified the girl got all shifty and nervous. It took them at least 2 hrs to verify everyones ID's etc. When it was all said and done the girl got arrested and they split her quarter of the BB with the table. Talk about a tough break!

well i dont understand what u usually say ..

but he is talking about a bad beat jackpot in poker.

if u lose with aces full or better you get a percentage of the jackpot and so does the rest of the table.

the only one that got in trouble was the person playing in a LEGAL poker game who was underage.

Greektown - A casino in Detroit

BB - A bad beat

40 bucks - 40 United States dollar bills that I had into the game prior to the BB (bad beat) hand

Underage - Not old enough to be in a casino legally (girl in the hand)

Tough break - The girl getting arrested instead of getting 16,000 for her share of the BB (bad beat)

Mark Reid's Mr. Nickerson.. who was a huge favorite of mine. Antley on Shaker Knit and Santos on Mr. Nick. Shaker Knit was put down and Mr. Nickerson died instantly. A horrible start to a day that got worse..

LOL

August 11, 1990.. Alabama Day at the Spa..

G/F Karen Papp (photo below) and I get to the track and I hit the opening exacta 5x (@$25.00) to immediately get up $100. I had bet a DD, which I rarely do, and a $10 double at that, and it hits for $20+, so I'm up $200.

Now Karen LOVES the Shoe Depot up here, and I figure up $200, I'll run her downtown and get her a couple pairs of shoes and go back to see Go for Wand romp in the Alabama later. But as we're walking to go out, she runs into a girlfriend from Cortland State. We were right by the Carousel, and I tell her to take her time as I's bet the third...

So I look at the third, and find a 15-1 shot named Balinar, the #9, that looks interesting and I wheel him in $2 exactas back and forth with the 1, 3, 5 and 7 for $16 total. They get to the top of the stretch and are running 1-9-5-7 and the 9 is moving best and I'm thinking I've got this puppy cold stone locked, when all of a sudden I can see a blur in the corner of the TV...

I don't know who it is coming fast, and I'm asking the old brother watching it with me who it is and he says 'it's da 3... you gots the 3?'... and now Balinar is ding-donging with the 3 down the stretch and they hit the wire together and the old guy is screamin at me "You gots it! You gots it!"... And the 3 -- Keynote Speaker, a Rockingham shipper from Michael Aro with Chop Chop -- is the longest shot on the board at 25-1 and I've got him over my Balinar -- the 2nd longest shot on the board at 14-1...

"You gots it! The boy gots it... You my hero!"

$721.00 exacta.. my first IRS ticket.

At the track 1 hour and 10 minutes and up 'on paper' $1,000.


Karen and I from that same summer..

great story!

Nice Lips.........

lol.

Walked into Hawthorne harness during a near-blizzard in Jan '86 with two friends. 2 minutes to post. One friend and I had to use the john and we told the other guy (not a gambler) to find out who Magee was driving and gave him $36 to wheel him 1st/2nd in the exacta for two bucks.

Come out of the john and the guy who bet handed us the ticket. The race had just started. We expected we'd have Dave Magee, but the non-gambler had read the program and found Dean Magee was on the 1 horse and stopped reading.

The 1 horse was 80-1 and ran second to an 15-1 shot. Ex paid $1800. Dave Magee ran 3rd as the chalk.

Good story STS did you throw the guy a couple hundred

After the tax, we split it even three ways and left and went to Gene & Georgetti for a decent meal.


That was the last smart thing I did.

I haven't had Gene & Georgetti in a long time, probably 5 years. I just went back to Superdawg for the first time in like 10 years. I went and saw my Grandpa in his nursing home in Norwood Park and my dad is like "Lets go to Superdawg" Never had a green tomato before, not a fan

I remember Superdawg. Haven't been there in a real long time. When I went to Arlington PArk over the summer, I did stop at Jimmy's Place on NW Highway.

Lots of great restaurants in Chicago but Gene & Georgetti is one of my favorites.

NO KETCHUP and the McDonalds across the street charges like 25 cents for a packet.. LOL

ricco -bennies......and of course cafe 14.......and tha slice of chi..

Horse I owned half of, coming back off a lay-off of 5 months. Had terrible form in his last 4 races going into the lay running Beyers of 38, 48, 22, and 31. Cheap $5k claimer that loved to wing it on the front. Pressure him on the turn, or run eyeballs to him and he'd fold like a tent.

Before the race, trainer tells me he's ready - in all the time I've had horses with this trainer, nary a word had been said - until that day. He'd thrown a bullet in one of his works but otherwise nothing spectacular.

He was sitting at 14-1 with one of Lake's horses taking a lot of money. I wheeled him in exactas, and keyed him a number of triples. I had about $150 in the race, and that's a lot for me.

Frank Douglas had the mount and I hated Frank Douglas. In the paddock, trainer tells Frank to put him on the front and don't look back. Frank straggles him out of the gate and wrestles him back to 3rd. I'd owned this horse for 16 months at this point and he'd never passed a horse - he'd won 3 races for us but always from the lead. And there's Frank rating the horse, going three wide on the first turn - if I could have caught him then, I would have straggled him.

Top of the stretch, he's passed one and got one more to go. Goes past that one and maintains a length and a half lead down the entire stretch to win.

He paid $30. I don't remember what the exacta paid but the tri's were somewhere around $400 for a dollar. I cashed my tickets, put around $6500 in my pockets, gave my trainer a NICE tip, and proceded directly to the horseman's bookkeeper's office to make a deposit into my new personal stable account. Then I went home.

Two weeks later I claimed my own horse for $5k, spent the remainder of the account on bills, put in another $7k for more bills over the next few months and after giving the horse away, walked away a poor man.

One hasn't experienced a fine Chicago dinner/experience until they visit The Wiener's Circle in Lincoln Park at 1 am on a Saturday morning. Great food....but even better...the entertainment.

for me its jims original..anytime...polish w grilled onions....hmm good

IMO that place is played out. Bunch of yuppies invade and act like goofballs. Food is real good but the people around there are morons

Melrose Park & vicinity...

• Jean & Jude's... (Dogs)
• Harlo's... (Burgers)
• Johnnie's (It. Beef/Sausage)...
• Russell's... (BBQ)
• Pizza Joynt... (Pizza)
• Capri (Italian)

The list is endless...

JOhnnys is actually expanding a little. They got one in Evanston about 6 months ago and I heard there was was coming to Arlington heights....

I am a Jay's man myself when it comes to beef

super beef in arl hghts. ok fng el famous burrito..the football size steak one..off the chain.......damn im hungry thanks alot

If you opened a Chicago-style beef/dog/pizza spot down here, it would be like printing money.

Opening up a restaurant cost too much money now days otherwise I would be all over it. i would love to be the hilarious guy serving food.

There is a breakfast spot that my dad used to take me to when I was younger, it is on the corner of Central Ave and Montrose Ave. Name was Johnnys. The person that was the owner was absolutely the most hilarious guy in the world, if he were to be working now, he would have so many work violations because of how he treated his employees, but he was a good man, funny, and the employees knew it was a show.

Supposedly he got his head blown off trying to by a dime bag and now his uncle owns it.

Note: Just asked my dad and it is no longer there

Ask you dad if he ever went to The Montrose Saloon. Montrose near Calfornia. I tended bar there a couple times. Same neighborhood.

you cant get the bread....its in the water "the flavor"

Bread not a problem. Maybe the celery salt will be tough to find. I see very few small places closing. And most are busier than they have a right to be.

dt deli...lol