Okay, so anyway, in December I invited Jean to accompany me on an overnight to Caesars when they were having a mystery envelope drawing. This particular promotion is my favorite because the minimum I am guaranteed to win is $100 with a chance of my prize being as high as $10,000!!!!! For this event, my prize was the minimum $100 which was kind of a bummer because all around me people were winning $300, $500, $200....but it was a free (relatively speaking) hundred bucks so I wasn't about to complain. Although I was kind of surprised because I really did have this feeling that I was going to win.
As an aside, I have to point out that a number of thoughts were going through my head when I got the Mystery Envelope invitation. Thoughts like: "how can I go to AC the week before Christmas? I am already spending so much $$$ on Christmas am I crazy to spend money gambling? We're leaving on our big cruise in a few weeks and that's going to be another expense...." thoughts like that. So I had invited Jean, and I had gotten the room, but I kept looking for signs that said I shouldn't go. Instead I kept getting signs every day that said I SHOULD go. Stupid things like I would say to myself, "oh you can't be away you have a group coming in this weekend" and then BAM! the next day I got a phone call from the group asking to reschedule. Then I said to myself, "okay take your coin jar to the bank and if you don't have at least $100 in coins you shouldn't go" so off I go to the bank and BAM! I had $138 in coins! The day I was planning to leave I stopped at the post office, "if I have any bills in my po box I'll call to cancel my room" and BAM! no bills but a check for $2.75 from a class action settlement. So, like I said, stupid things but they all seemed to be pointing me in an AC direction and I could only assume this meant I was destined to win $10,000.
Okay, so we now know I didn't win $10,000 but I had $100 of their money plus $138 of my laundry money (that would be the coins from my coin jar that I have collected from the washer/dryer and not, certainly, laundry money that I need to go to a laundromat and wash clothes -- just in case anyone who is reading this doesn't know me and thinks I would take the family's laundry money to a casino!)
Back to my story....
On this trip, I came across a bank of progressive video poker machines that were as close to full pay as you're ever going to find in Atlantic City and the royal flush prize was over $1400. So I plopped right down and started to play, and play, and play, and play. Hours and hours of video poker, hopping from machine to machine in the bank. Sporadically I took a break and went to the Super Times Pay machines (terrible odds but I can't help myself, I love them!) and the Ultimate X machines (even worse odds and have NEVER won but again they are fun to play). Both of those novelty games suck my money up faster than a....well I don't know what to compare them to; but they sure do suck my money up! This is why I only play them if I am AHEAD -- kind of like a little treat to myself.
So, off and on for that night, the next day and the next night I played to win the progressive Royal Flush -- pretty sure that I was going to hit it, it was just a matter of when and on which machine. Finally, at 5:08am (after staying up all night LOL!) on 12/18, I hit the jackpot for $1881.
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