US Merch Giveaway! Tell us Your Experience for a Chance to Win! (US members Only)

[Tammy]

In the spirit of our upcoming move to casino.us (see here for more details: A New Chapter for Our Community!)

We're giving away THREE US CardsChat Merch Prize Packages to all entries in this thread! Sorry - these items can ship to US only. No international entries.

How to Win
Tell us your most memorable casino experience! Whether good or bad, we want to hear it all. It could even be a funny story amongst betting or playing with family and friends (excluding poker stories).

• Did you hit a big jackpot playing slots?
• Hit an unbelievable hand in Blackjack?
• Crush the Video Poker machines?
• Put it all on black and win?

Whatever it is, tell us your story!

We'll do a random drawing amongst all US member posts in this thread. Quality posting does apply - so make sure you give your best effort.

Some vintage CardsChat Merch is up for grabs. Drawing will be held at the end of September. Here's a look at some of the merch you can win!

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Don't miss all the rest of the fun!

In case you didn't know, we just turned 21! And we are celebrating in-style on our way to the Casino (casino.us, that is... ). Make sure you're taking advantage of ALL the ways you can win!

🎰 🎉 CardsChat's 21st Birthday - Heading to the Casino! 🎉 🎰

 

[Tero]

In case you didn't know, we just turned 21!

Oh, everyone knows...

...but how many believes it

 

[najisami]

Hi Tammy,
I think I already asked you before, but I don't see my post here, maybe I didn't hit the yellow button.
Even though I'm in Morocco, I have a US address. Does that make me eligible to participate here? If not, it's ok.

 

[Tammy]

Hi Tammy,
I think I already asked you before, but I don't see my post here, maybe I didn't hit the yellow button.
Even though I'm in Morocco, I have a US address. Does that make me eligible to participate here? If not, it's ok.

Yes, if you have a viable US address, you may enter. But we cannot take responsibility for undeliverable packages.

 

[TeUnit]

My buddy got married in AC, so we went to the casino a couple days before the wedding.

roulette is not something I usually play, but I put $10 on a number and it hit, an extra $350 was a nice way to start the festivities.

 

[jaymfc]

I lived in Orlando, FL, and went to Vegas with my family and gambled at night when they were in bed.
on the last night I played $25 blackjack and had won about $3000, and just wanted a couple spins on the $25 slot machine
before bed. 3rd spin, I hit a double bar for 100x, so another $2500. paid for the whole trip. It was way cheaper back in the day,
but flights, rental car, and tourist sites all covered stayed at the Riviera, but they tore it down now for more expensive places.
was getting a decent comp package for previous trips.

 

[Tammy]

I lived in Orlando, FL, and went to Vegas with my family and gambled at night when they were in bed.
on the last night I played $25 blackjack and had won about $3000, and just wanted a couple spins on the $25 slot machine
before bed. 3rd spin, I hit a double bar for 100x, so another $2500. paid for the whole trip. It was way cheaper back in the day,
but flights, rental car, and tourist sites all covered stayed at the Riviera, but they tore it down now for more expensive places.
was getting a decent comp package for previous trips.

That's awesome. Those were the days!

 

[najisami]

This is true but only happened to me once.

I went to the Borgata for the 1st time with my then GF, wife to be. We had no plans but to have fun. Since I had no idea about any game except Blackjack that I knew a little bit. we sat at a $5 table, and I bought in for $400 that I lost within half an hour.
I didn't know what I was doing, sometimes betting the minimum and sometimes $20 or $40 (chasing losses).
Before that, she wanted to play slots, so I said that my idea got us into a bad start, and she should do her thing. She then asked me to wait a minute and went to an ATM. To my surprise, she came back with $300 and said: "This is what I can afford to lose, I liked that game you played, you sit back there, I know you will win". I was hesitating, but she insisted, only suggesting that I pick a different table.

Sure enough, we went to another $5 table, but since it wasn't my money, I only kept betting the minimum for a while. Before I knew it, I had a bunch of green chips and even a few black ones in front of me. Moreover, and after many free Heinekens, I was just grabbing and betting green stacks, sometimes asking the dealer "I bet $500??" whenever he was paying and pronouncing the amount.

To make the story short, we ended up cashing $11,600. One thing we could both hardly believe though, it was 4pm the following day. We had started around 10pm!

I had some other winning sessions after that (Mostly playing poker), but regardless of the amounts, that was the most fun I've ever had at a casino.

 

[jaymfc]

Oh, everyone knows...
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...but how many believes it

I wouldn't believe it if I didn't join you when you were just a few years old, happy birthday CardChat ❤️

 

[Dejana]

Can I write here like a contest from US, and if I win, I would tell who's from my friends from the US take that price?

(I'm pain in the ass, I know - sorry all lol )

 

[Tammy]

Can I write here like a contest from US, and if I win, I would tell who's from my friends from the US take that price?

(I'm pain in the ass, I know - sorry all lol )

No - I love that you want to do that, but your friends from the US should take part in this promo if they want to win. 😁

 

[Dejana]

No - I love that you want to do that, but your friends from the US should take part in this promo if they want to win. 😁

This is not cool at all...😂

 

[Sunz of Beaches]

When I see those amazing merch prices are for once wish I was a citizen of the United States of America. Good luck to all who will participate in this.

 

[optikdave]

My most memorable casino experience dates back to 1990 when my wife was overseas studying in University. I took the opportunity to take the casino bus from Nothern NJ to Atlantic City to gamble on Monday morning from midnight to 6:00 AM. I took $150 cash and left my checkbook and credit cards at home. I sat down at the $10.00 Blackjack table and lost my entire stack in 15 minutes. Since I was left with no cash, I couldn't buy a drink, sit at an empty slot machine if I wasn't playing or sit in the hotel lobby, I found a corridor that was out of the way and tried to nap until 6:00 to take the bus back to home . That debacle cured me of casino gambling before I was bitten by the online poker bug in 2000.

 

[hobojim1247]

November2014, I played the Heartland Poker tournament , and made the final table, I finished 6th for $25,331. Very memorable.

 

[mattiebumpo]

My most memorable experience in a casino was when I was on vacation with family and we stopped by a craps table. I didn't know anything about craps but my brother told me where to put my chips/markers? and then someone was rolling the dice and we would all hoot and holler asking for 7 come 11 or whatever everyone was saying. The shooter got hot and kept winning for everyone so the group around the table got louder and louder. It was a ton of fun and I remember I left with a few hundred dollars of profit which was amazing! Someday, I need to actually learn the game so I know what is happening! All I knew was that everyone was happy and we all won some $$$!

 

[Tammy]

November2014, I played the Heartland Poker tournament , and made the final table, I finished 6th for $25,331. Very memorable.

Wow! Amazing!

My most memorable experience in a casino was when I was on vacation with family and we stopped by a craps table. I didn't know anything about craps but my brother told me where to put my chips/markers? and then someone was rolling the dice and we would all hoot and holler asking for 7 come 11 or whatever everyone was saying. The shooter got hot and kept winning for everyone so the group around the table got louder and louder. It was a ton of fun and I remember I left with a few hundred dollars of profit which was amazing! Someday, I need to actually learn the game so I know what is happening! All I knew was that everyone was happy and we all won some $$$!

That's awesome! I have no idea how to play either, but I love when the craps table starts heating up, and the people cheering and hollering. 😁

 

[Gutshot Gus]

I was at The Rivers casino in Portsmouth Va and had just finished 5th in the $150 Wednesday game and had a prize amount of $356.
The cage for the poker room is inside the poker room.
I collected my prize and walked out of the poker room into the casino.
I don't usually have anything to do with the activity on the casino floor, but today was different-----I had a wad of house money in my hand.
I stopped at the first machine outside the poker room and dropped in a twenty and pushed the magic button.
Well wouldn't you know it lights up and makes a lot of noise and out comes a slip for $450.

 

[ScooperNova]

My most memorable experience was the time I played 5/5 omaha. I barely did better than breaking even, but I had a good time. I lost my first buy-in, so catching back up was pretty thrilling. Plenty of gamblers at the table. Only a couple seemed to know what they were doing. Oddly enough, the thing I remember most is mucking preflop UTG. I tossed my hand and my cards flipped up revealing AJ83 rainbow. The guy to my left said "OMG YOU FOLDED THAT???" lol. There was another guy across from me who had been taking a beating. He was so disgusted someone would accidentally flip a hand over folding preflop. I thought he was going to die. He looked at me like I just kicked his dog. He didn't say anything and I just thought to myself "whatever dude, just keep those buy ins coming".

 

[angelluv725]

The only casino I have ever played in was in Cherokee North Carolina called Harrah's Cherokee Casino. A beaufitul place in NC where I was born.
I only took fifty dollars and played the slot machine and was winning my money back, plus I won fifty dollars. lol. Before leaving my son convinced me to play one more time. Not a good thing. I lost it all. I still had a great time and learned a lesson in knowing when to stop while I was ahead.

 

[Tammy]

My most memorable experience was the time I played 5/5 omaha. I barely did better than breaking even, but I had a good time. I lost my first buy-in, so catching back up was pretty thrilling. Plenty of gamblers at the table. Only a couple seemed to know what they were doing. Oddly enough, the thing I remember most is mucking preflop UTG. I tossed my hand and my cards flipped up revealing AJ83 rainbow. The guy to my left said "OMG YOU FOLDED THAT???" lol. There was another guy across from me who had been taking a beating. He was so disgusted someone would accidentally flip a hand over folding preflop. I thought he was going to die. He looked at me like I just kicked his dog. He didn't say anything and I just thought to myself "whatever dude, just keep those buy ins coming".

Gotta love the grumpy poker players. Where I used to play, there were a lot of regulars, and some old codgers who still thought women shouldn't be playing. I loved taking advantage of his very vocal preconceived notions on how all women play - re-raising him with nothing and him getting pissed because, "Well she obviously has that Ace" or whatever. I would just smile sweetly and shrug, and scoop the chips. I fought everything within me to keep from turning over the bluffs...it would have ruined my gravy train.

 

[lcid86]

I've won a little, lost a little. Used to play blackjack in Atlantic City in the late 80s and early 90s. Used to drive down with my dad, about 2.5 hour drive, and the winner had to buy dinner. We had some great meals, some fast food meals and some comped meals. Regardless, we got to spend time together and that was the real win.

 

[Sullivanryn88]

my most memorable casino experience, was a negative one in a way, me and my brother went to upstate NY for my birthday, we were passin through the slots and he wanted to sit down, so we sat at two machines side by side, they were the termanator machines, and my casino card wouldnt be accepted by the machine i had sat at, so i moved down to the end and tried again, and it was accepted at this machine, so i play some spins, not 3 minutes after my card failed where we initially chose to sit, a man sat down, spun less than 5 times and hit the jackpot for almost 25k, i couldnt help but think what if my card worked there. so needless to say i was happy for the man, but a tad sour my card didnt work at that machine.

 

[Tammy]

You all have great odds to win a merch pkg! I'll be doing the drawing shortly....

 

[Tammy]

Winner #1
US Merch Prize Pkg

Spoiler: Winner!

@Sullivanryn88