I can remember the first time I went spinning to win on the slot machines like it was yesterday.
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As a college kid studying at Arizona State University, my twenty-first birthday bash took a few pals and me to Sin City for a weekend of debauchery.
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But while my fraternity brothers were staying busy ogling the wares over at the Spearmint Rhino strip club or chasing skirts poolside at the Tropicana, I found myself pulled toward the slotparlor like a moth drawn to the flames.
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Flames probably come to mind there because I crashed and burned. I was just a dumb kid, and I definitely didn’t know about details like return to player (RTP) percentages and probabilities at thetime.
No, I was more interested in the flashing meter overhead which displayed the Megabucks progressive jackpot.
And why not? At $12 million and change, that was the most money I’ve ever encountered in real life. Just knowing I had a chance — however remote that chance might be — to take home every penny ofthat enormous jackpot had me itching to take a shot.
Little did I know, the actual odds of winning the top prize on a Megabucks machine stand at 1 in 49,836,032. And even if I did know that, lightning has to strike sometime, right?
Struck by the sense of hope only the young can still harbor, I set out to beat the odds and bring home the bacon.
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Soon enough, however, the $3 per spin required to compete for the progressive jackpot put me down for the count. It all happened so fast. $500 in hard-earned dough saved all summer just for thetrip, and I’m not sure I even managed a basic winner on a single spin.
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Just like that, my birthday festivities were finished, and I was forced to head home in defeat. My buddies never let me live that one down, either — not until I finally won the Megabucks jackpot,that is.