by Nurse Nancy S.
Member since:
March 7, 2007

Money For Nothing

April 29, 2009 09:22 PM EDT
views: 132 | comments: 49

My husband and I have a little vice. It is called the Seminole Hard Rock Casino. Located here in Tampa, it is only about a 20 minute drive for us.

We are both Platinum Players Club members. (which means we play a lot...LOL) For those who are not familiar with a casino's Players Club cards, let me take a moment to explain. You have a card that is the size of a credit card. In the slot machines there is a slot that you insert your card in. The computer recognizes you and gives you points during your slot game. These points can be saved and redeemed for gifts, use them to purchase items in the gift shop, use them to buy food in the restaurant use them for the spa or to get a hotel room. Each month, we receive coupons from the casino. Free meals, free property credit (for the gift shops or restaurants), free entries to the current giveaways, etc. And my favorite is the Autoload Free Play, in other words, FREE MONEY to gamble with!

Ever so often we get an extra coupon for Mystery Autoload Free Play up to $1000. You have no idea how much it will be until you load your card into a machine and put in your pin number. I have never gotten a whole bunch, but once I got $65. You can not cash out this money, you have to play it. I can be divided into $5 increments so you can play several different machines, if you choose.

Well, today was one of those Mystery Free Play days. I also had $30 in property credit. So this morning, early, before it got real busy, Ed and I headed to the Hard Rock.

We had a steak and egg breakfast with home fries, toast and coffee for $5.99 each. We used my property credit, so all we owed was the tip.

We used the remainder of my property credit and along with some points from Ed's Players Club card, we got a 3 CD disc set of the hits from the 60's, 70's and 80's. All FREE!!

Then we hit the floor! I had $45 in free play. So I set out to WIN! Every machine I played was HOT!! Here is the result:

 
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Comments: 49

Kat W. Apr 29, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
WTG Nancy!
Carol B Apr 29, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
Great good for you. My husband and I love to go to casinos. Luckily though we don't have any near us, which is a good thing cause I usually leave my money there,lol.
Brenda (square peg in a round hole) H. Apr 29, 2009, 9:29pm EDT
Wow, thats cool. Congrats.
Nicely done!
Angela A. Apr 29, 2009, 9:34pm EDT
Holy cow, you got very lucky!
Sandy C. Apr 29, 2009, 9:37pm EDT
Congrats!

That is great!
Jo N. Apr 29, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
Congrats!
Melissa R Apr 29, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
wow, congrats!
Alex In Wonderland Apr 29, 2009, 9:44pm EDT
Wow money! Way to go! And you can't beat free breakfast and movies.
sarah g. Apr 29, 2009, 9:44pm EDT
that is SOOOO awesome!!!!!!
Alex In Wonderland Apr 29, 2009, 9:44pm EDT
Music. I was thinking music so I don't know why I wrote movies.
Elle L. Apr 29, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
Awesome! Congratulations
Cholette W. Apr 29, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
Sounds like fun!
I went to an Indian casino in New York years ago. It was fun, we don't live close enough to the casinos here in Detroit to go play though...

CONGRATS THOUGH!
Eileen C. Apr 29, 2009, 9:53pm EDT
Cool beans!
.* Sandi * Apr 29, 2009, 9:54pm EDT
awesome
Cindy B. Apr 29, 2009, 9:55pm EDT
Congrats!!! Now thats a lucky day! =)
Sandra H. Apr 29, 2009, 10:04pm EDT
Looks like it was your lucky day! Congrats!
Tracy Fabre Apr 29, 2009, 10:07pm EDT
a little vice now and then is good for the soul!
Priscilla (wishing I was in Costa Rica) ~. Apr 29, 2009, 10:07pm EDT
Wow that is awesome! You are a winner!
tammie p. Apr 29, 2009, 10:09pm EDT
wtg nancy!!!
JoAnn C. Apr 29, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
way to go Nancy.
Janet "Jax" B. Apr 29, 2009, 10:33pm EDT
Congrats Nancy!!!!
Ellie !. Apr 29, 2009, 10:39pm EDT
Cool. I am not one who enjoys gambling. It's like risking throwing away money is not fun for me.
I was concerned when my 18 yo daughter wanted to go to what is called a "casino" in Montana. It is attached to the Town Pump Gas Station if that tells you. She started with $2. Played about 15 minutes and left with $5. Done. Had her fun because she could.
Patty Mayonaise Apr 29, 2009, 10:44pm EDT
cool
Holli G. Apr 29, 2009, 10:47pm EDT
That is awesome!!! WTG!
Marianne R. Apr 29, 2009, 11:20pm EDT
Wow, WTG!
kelldogg ! Apr 29, 2009, 11:34pm EDT
woohoo!!!! that's when you know when to walk away!!! anytime i'm up . . . i just count it as being a good day. there was one day i hit the casinos and only had two dollars in my wallet (it was my first time) and just wanted to play quarter slots . . . well . . . my $2 made me $80!
Jessica S. Apr 29, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
woooooooooooo! what a great night! i can't wait to go play the slots with my hubby again! :) we always have fun, too!
Marsha S. Apr 30, 2009, 12:06am EDT
you are making me jealous! I haven't got to play the slots in many years now

Just letting you know your content has reached 25 comments and has therefore been removed from ~3,000 Here We Come!~
R B Apr 30, 2009, 12:15am EDT
A lucky day helps. Congrats on the wins. That 'free' stuff is quite expensive in my book.
Randall C. Apr 30, 2009, 12:25am EDT
that was a great surprise ending Nancy....congratulations.....
Trish A. Apr 30, 2009, 12:33am EDT
Way to go! I've been to a casino once when my daughter was running in a national race. I spent our entire stay trying to get rid of the $5 I brought to gamble with! I kept winning. I finally gave up and walked away with about $2! People told me I didn't seem to understand how gambling worked!
fancy c. Apr 30, 2009, 1:57am EDT
wtg
Pam Eccles Apr 30, 2009, 6:03am EDT
I love the casinos. I try hard to only take a certain amount with me and not take the bank cards to get more out. I don't have big wins, but I have fun. Here in VA, they haven't brought the casino's in and I doubt they ever will. I want to go to the one up in West Virginia. I know when we travel to Erie, Pa we go there alot.
Way to go on your awesome win!
Pristina S. Apr 30, 2009, 7:04am EDT
Congratulations.
j - Frugal Mom - r. Apr 30, 2009, 8:24am EDT
WOW!!!! Congratulations!

We have a Seminole Hard Rock Casino up the street, but fortunately my husband and I are not gamblers, otherwise we would probably be broke.
J F. Apr 30, 2009, 10:56am EDT
Cool.
Heather ~of the Whippets~ M. Apr 30, 2009, 2:24pm EDT
That's cool, Nancy.
Jeff S. Apr 30, 2009, 2:42pm EDT
If one spends $5.00 twice a week to buy lotto from age 18 to 65, he will have spent $24,440 over these years. Instead, if he invests this money $43 per month in an investment that increases at an average rate of 12% in a Roth IRA, the investment will increase to $1,332,057. You can retire as a millionaire.
Elaine S. Apr 30, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
Congrats!
Nurse Nancy S. Apr 30, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
Some people smoke, some drink, some eat...those vices go up in smoke, down the toilet and onto the hips. I like to play the slots. Some people go to the movies, others go out to bars and clubs. I like to play the slots.

Yes, Jeff, if I take that money that I gamble with (less than a carton of cigs) and invest it, I would have a nice investment. But I already invest in my 401K and my IRA, so I see nothing wrong with having me having fun a few times a month with my "mad money."

BTW, last year, my hubby took $20 to the casino and came home with a $7500 jackpot.
Pam Eccles Apr 30, 2009, 3:25pm EDT
Wow Nancy, taking $20 and walking out with $7500.00! That is one heck of a deal to me!
Samantha D. Apr 30, 2009, 4:38pm EDT
congrats
Nurse Nancy S. Apr 30, 2009, 6:32pm EDT
Jeff,
When I did my taxes this year, I was actually ahead on my winnings about $600. Not that that really matters to anyone but me.

If you don't like to gamble, that's fine, but I do. Don't begrudge my excitement.
Vikki M. Apr 30, 2009, 11:37pm EDT
Wow! Very nice! I'm very glad that I'm a little far from casinos because I know I'd be going very often if they were local. As it is I try to get to Atlantic City once a year, but I've never done that well!
Ellen B. May 1, 2009, 3:17am EDT
I like casinos too, but they don't have them in our state; we have to go to indiana
Karen R. May 1, 2009, 3:28am EDT
I like the casinos, too. But I have done a good job of staying away from them for the past years since money has been tighter.
Krystal Harwell May 4, 2009, 8:13pm EDT
I just stick to the free ones on games :)

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