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01-15-2008, 09:52 PM
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Any stories about...
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.
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01-15-2008, 10:01 PM
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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.
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01-15-2008, 10:44 PM
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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.
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01-16-2008, 10:50 AM
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans Last edited by Kasept : 01-17-2008 at 09:13 AM.
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01-16-2008, 08:12 PM
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corwyn bay i think had to hurdle a horse but otherwise was fine. he just lost all chance.
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01-17-2008, 12:16 AM
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01-16-2008, 11:15 AM
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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.. 
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans
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01-16-2008, 11:34 AM
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01-16-2008, 11:53 AM
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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.
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01-16-2008, 12:08 PM
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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.
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01-16-2008, 06:46 PM
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Went to LA on business from SC and dragged some fellow employees with me telling them all the way how I knew the horses, which they did not.
Well they bet my selections for the first four-five races which all lost. With each losing race they were getting more and more pissed at me and started to make comments about me knowing nothing. The started betting on their own and the next race I hit a 50/1 shot (Plenty of Grace) on top of a $1,150 exacta, to this day my biggest hit. Turned to them and said, "see I told you I knew what I was doing"! Happened 12 years ago and still have the chart framed in my office.
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01-17-2008, 01:55 PM
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01-17-2008, 01:58 PM
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01-17-2008, 02:47 PM
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Byk is the reformed version of Aaron Hesz. 
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01-15-2008, 11:03 PM
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ima kidding dammit...
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01-15-2008, 11:11 PM
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Good night magma and have a pleasant tomorrow. Can you do that for me at least.
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01-16-2008, 12:04 AM
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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!
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01-16-2008, 07:27 AM
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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.
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