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Elderly man turns $5 poker bet into $1M at New Jersey casino

Anonymous Mon 24 Dec 2018 23:22:40 No.331636 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>331638 >>331928 >>335561 >>335836,1

A New Jersey man who was playing poker at an Atlantic City casino won $1 million after placing a $5 bet, a Facebook post by the Borgata Hotel Casino stated.

The Lakewood resident, Harold M., made the three-card poker "6 Card Bonus" bet Saturday afternoon at the casino.

He then got a royal flush of diamonds, a hand that overcame one-to-20 million odds, the Associated Press reported.

The man was dealt the 10, queen and ace of diamonds. The dealer's hand was the nine, jack and king of diamonds.

A Facebook post by the casino says this the first time this bet has been hit at the Borgata.

Experts at wizardofodds.com told the casino that the odds of hitting the six card Bonus Royal Flush are one in 20,348,320.

https://wjla.com/news/offbeat/poker-player-turns-5-bet-into-1m-at-new-jersey-casino

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Dec 2018 23:32:34 No.331638 Report

Quoted By: >>331651 >>331652

>>331636
>one in 20,348,320
and he only made $1M from a $5 bet?
holy shit the house gouges its customers. Average-Break-even payout given those odds is ~$100M on that bet, old man got friggin RIPPED

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Dec 2018 00:34:19 No.331651 Report

Quoted By: >>331652

>>331638
The house always wins

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Dec 2018 00:47:38 No.331652 Report

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>>331638
Gambling is a pyramid scheme for the house. Even if you win big, you never win what you deserve.
>>331651
This.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Dec 2018 00:06:50 No.331928 Report

Quoted By: >>331934 >>331952 >>333352

>>331636
> Elderly man wins $1M from casino
If I was his family, I'd take out the most life insurance on the guy that I could get.

I have a feeling he's about to move in to some building foundation somewhere. In pieces.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Dec 2018 00:15:06 No.331929 Report

Quoted By: >>331933

Anyone want to tell me why we're supposed to care about this when there's far more important things going on in the world right now? What real news are you trying to cover up with this thread?

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Anonymous Wed 26 Dec 2018 00:33:34 No.331933 Report

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>>331929
You didn't have to click on it. Feel free to browse more important things if you like.
>>/mlp/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Dec 2018 00:36:26 No.331934 Report

Quoted By: >>331941

>>331928
Man, that's dark. Your parents are afraid of you, aren't they? :-/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Dec 2018 01:06:54 No.331941 Report

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>>331934
Atlantic City is all mob run. They don't take kindly to major losses, especially with how shitty Atlantic City is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Dec 2018 01:41:25 No.331952 Report

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>>331928
A million dollars is literally chump change to the kinds of people who matter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Dec 2018 02:45:34 No.331974 Report

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Casinos are a business that takes your money and gives you less of it back. Very rarely do you break even and even when you do win the house has already made many times more than you that they can afford the relatively minuscule loss. The house *always* wins.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Dec 2018 16:32:22 No.332105 Report

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>>331952
A million may be chump change, but there's always someone willing to take care of problems.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 Dec 2018 17:57:11 No.332122 Report

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Pensioner wins $1m a day after his wife beats cancer

It has been a big week for Harold McDowell, of Lakewood, New Jersey, and not because of Christmas.

On Friday, doctors confirmed that his wife was cancer free, after multiple surgeries for liver cancer and hospital stays for colon cancer.

Then on Saturday afternoon he won $1m (£790,000) at a casino in Atlantic City.

Mr McDowell, 85, bet just $5 in a game of poker and hit a six-card royal straight flush of diamonds.

The casino, Borgata Hotel, said the odds had been just one in 20,348,320.

He was dealt the 10, queen and ace of diamonds. The dealer's hand was the nine, jack and king of diamonds.

Mr McDowell put his win down to "luck of the Irish".

The retired public works director told the New York Post that his wife had been with him but she had been even more shocked by his win than he was.

He said: "I happened to be playing next to my wife. I had my back to her.

"I turned around said: 'I just won a million dollars'.

"She told me: 'You're full of c**p'."

Mr McDowell said he was "dumbfounded" by the win, saying he had "sat there like an idiot".

The casino has taken a cut of at least $200,000 in taxes, he said, but the news about his wife's health was more important to him than the money.

He told the Post: "It was better news that she's healthy - money isn't the most important thing."

When asked what he would do with the money, he said he would give most of it to his children but he and his wife might take a cruise.

"Our lives will probably stay pretty much the same," he said. "But it might get better for our children."

https://news.sky.com/story/pensioner-wins-1m-a-day-after-his-wife-beats-cancer-11591315

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 29 Dec 2018 07:36:03 No.333352 Report

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>>331928
>Article's clearly an advert for the casino.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Jan 2019 18:24:20 No.335561 Report

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>>331636
Wow! That is some fresh news. I love hearing about news like this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 06 Jan 2019 08:15:05 No.335836 Report

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>>335561
That's why casinos fucking love it when they make the news with stories like this.

Check out the stories of olds getting fucked out of their winnings on "defective" gambling machines.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Oct 2020 09:36:06 No.335836,1 Report Delete

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>>331636
Wow, this sounds impressive. Of course, he is one of the luckiest men ever, but I think this is possible for everyone. I don't like so much visiting casinos, but instead, I like playing poker on online casinos. If you have the same opinion then I would like to recommend a site that I find as the best I ever tried. Well if you are interested and want to try it, then just access the following site: https://clubvip777.com/, and enjoy this awesome game and this awesome site.

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