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The record for holding the dice goes to Stanley Fujitake from Hawaii, who in July, 1989 at Las Vegas' downtown California Club held the dice for an incredible three-hours-and-twelve minutes! By the time he sevened out the table had paid out almost a million dollars.
When "Mrs. Lucky" (she opted to remain anonymous) hit that long-overdue Megabucks World's Record jackpot of $27,582,539 on November 15, 1998 at Vegas' Palace Station Casino, she truly beat the slot machine odds in cards and spades. Only a paltry nickel out of every dollar fed into the machines is ever earmarked for the jackpot. That meant over half-a-billion dollars had to have been pumped into the Megabucks machines all across Nevada to have funded Mrs. Lucky's multi-million-dollar windfall. But that's not the end of the story. When you're lucky, you're just lucky. Only a month prior to her Megabucks win, Mrs. Lucky had hit a Wheel of Fortune slot machine jackpot for more than $680,000!
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Dr. Joseph Damato, a dentist from Newark, New Jersey, visited what was then the Grand in Atlantic City in 1992 to enter a blackjack tournament. Luck wasn't with him when he discovered that then, of all times, he had lost his glasses.
Afraid to enter the tournament because, as he put it, "I couldn't see the cards so well," he decided to wile away the afternoon by playing the Megabucks slot machine, the symbols of which were easier for him to see. And luck rebounded in a Megabucks blast as the dentist drilled into a $4,400,000 Megabucks jackpot.
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Flukes, blunders, and just plain dumb luck (as you know, I don't believe in "luck," but I'll take it if it happens) have enabled me to win and to lose through the years. The $400 in $100 bills that I found in an Atlantic City taxicab one Christmas week falls in the "easy-money-dumb-luck" category. Ditto for the $200 in $50 bills I found on the floor of a stall in a Caesars Palace men's room.
The Caesars windfall was just a bunch of bills folded in half, the cab jackpot was in a small Christmas money envelope along with a card: "For Tony. Good luck from Al." If it wasn't for bad luck, Tony wouldn't have any luck at all, poor Tony lost Al's bonus money in Atlantic City before he even put his toe in a casino.
Then there was the time at a $25 table when I inadvertently won an extra $475 on a hand. I carelessly buried a $500 chip under a lowly $25 chip,- I meant it only as a $50 bet. The dealer, asleep at the switch, should have noted "purple action" to alert the pit boss that money played. I won the hand and happily learned at the payoff that I had more riding on the wager than 1 had intended.
But, alas, 1 lost the $475 back, on another day, plus an extra $25. It was on a chaotic Fourth of July at the Trump Plaza. The joint was jumping, with the aisles as packed with people as the Times Square subway station is at rush hour. Having won a tidy sum, I arose from the blackjack table with my hands piled high with chips of all kinds. I neglected to call "color in" and change my smaller-denomination chips before backing into the surging crowds. You can guess what happened next. Overloaded, I was jostled by some goon, which caused me to drop a chip under the feet of the mass of moving mankind. A purple chip, no less—worth $500!
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