GREATEST COMEBACK EVER?

[COLTON]

I make perhaps 10-15 trips to Las Vegas a year (occasionally also a trip to a Southern California Indian casino).  Over the years, there have been a couple of trips where I made an incredible comeback after being down a sizeable amount.  Of course, for every comeback story there are many more cases where I was unable to extricate myself from the deep hole.  My trips are generally 2 or 3 days long, and because of my work, I cannot extend a trip---it's like a football game, when the clock winds down and when the horn sounds, it is over!  Probably my best comeback story: About 5 years ago, I discovered and got hooked on 10-play $1 Quick Quads at Southpoint (after having played it a bit at Palace Station and then Green Valley, where they only had 5 play).  After a day and a half of play (primarily on QQ), I had lost my entire bankroll for that trip ($15K), something that I almost never do.  I accessed what Free Play I had recently earned from the last session--it was maybe $30 and stuck in another $30 cash, which was just about all I had left in my wallet.  I stood up from the machine, ready to walk out of the casino and change my flight so I could "get out of Dodge" a day and a half early.  I hit the "max pay" button and saw to my mild surprise that I had been dealt four to the royal.  I was so beaten up that I had no expectation of getting anything.  My eyes lit up when I saw a RF on one of the first few hands and then when a second RF popped up, I clapped my hands together.   The other 3 QQ machines had players pushing buttons quickly and only one glanced over.  The jackpot paid $8000.  I was still down $7K, but now I had a decent bankroll to keep going.  I went to bed that night down $11K, but the following morning on QQ I got dealt 4 deuces, picked up 7 kickers for a $8200 jackpot.  To make a long story short, I ended up that trip with a $10,000 profit.  I've got a few other stories that I'll share later, but would love to hear some of the members' best comeback experiences.

[TIMSPEED]

If I had lost $15k in that short of time, I might have needed surgery after pooping a brick.

[billslim]

Best I ever did was turn $10 free play that I earned after losing my entire bankroll of about $3k and playing 3 hand 5 cent super aces got up to $2500. I did this multiple times after losing my bankroll. It always made me think that the system was rigged.

[FloridaPhil]

Great story.  If I lost $15,000 in one day my wife would have called the white coats to take me away...  Yikes! I've told this story a few times.  It's not near the amount, but it's fun anyway.  I was playing at the Hard Rock in Tampa about 5 years ago and had a very bad day playing DDB (go figure). Anyway, I always save $5 so I can get something to eat on the way home. On my way out I walked by a video Poker machine and you guessed it I had to put my last $5 in the machine and selected DDB max coin $1s.  I had lost $500 and for me that seemed like $15,000.  As luck would have it, I was deal 4 aces for $800.   You guessed it again, I played it down to $500 and walked out even.  I gave up playing DDB after that because I figured I would never be that lucky again. 

[TIMSPEED]

Edit:
To add my best comeback story...
A while back, we went to Vegas with a few hundred ($600 I think?) and we had ran TERRIBLY bad on the first day...got down to literally $5 left...put it into a 5c triple-play Bonus Poker SuperTimesPay at Fremont...managed to hit quad aces x3 for $60...from there, we went over to The D and I hit quad 4's for $50 right off the bat, so now we were up to $100...from there we went back over to MSS, and I hit a 5c royal for $200, then over to GoldCoast, where I hit ANOTHER 5c royal for $200, and finally on the last morning, on the way out, my wife hit dealt quad kings on 5c 5-play DDB STP for $180...managed to leave Vegas with $600, LOL.

[charliebaresi]

Was at the Rio in Vegas when the Rio was great. There with a few friends. We were there for 4 days but by the second day one of my buddies was completely busted having blown his $2k bankroll and was left to just watch the rest of us gamble and drink. This was about 15 years ago when the machines just took Silver dollars (no paper yet). Well one of my buddies had to go to the bath-room and he asked the busted out friend to watch his machine and his money. He had $100 in silver in those old racks that fit the coins in. Well, my busted out friend is a bit of a scoundrel and of course he immediately breaks the perfect $100 rack to take 1 silver dollar and plays $1 VP for 1 credit while the other dude is in the bathroom. He hits a 4oak right away but it only paid like $25 because he only has 1 credit in. Then he plays $5 per hand and hits a 40ak on DDB so now he's got over $250. He starts hitting 4oak's like crazy and then hits the Royal winning about $6k in about 2 hrs off the stolen $1 silver dollar.

Didn't happen to me but a great story. I've got some good ones myself I'll share later.

[gentlemobster]

One that sticks in my head, not my best win, but I had a $1.50 ticket voucher that I stuck in a supertimes poker machine at MCC in Detroit. I ended up cashing out $1,500 tax free. Long story short I dont cash out very often.

[DaBurglar]

If I had lost $15k in that short of time, I might have needed surgery after pooping a brick."pooping a brick"........I defy anyone to say this 10 times in a row and NOT starting giggling or laughing like crazy as if you just smoked some primo Jamaican "Vegetation".....****(THREAD TANGENT / DIVERGENT direction WARNING!!)****Also, thumbs up to the poster who referred back to the "GOOD OL' DAYS"  at the RIO  when the casino only used actual silver coins for the machines, BEFORE everything was TITO.......I totally agree, the casinos and VEGAS in general was MUCH more player friendly back in the days before TECHNOLOGY totally smothered all the fun and good times to be had.....Anyone recall the tune "VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR" from late 1979 early 1980??  This tune is generally considered one of the greatest, catchiest songs of the MTV/Video Generation  that officially started in 1981 when MTV first came on the air......the song aptly describes exactly what transpired once people started getting most of their music from TV  instead of RADIO.....Someone needs to pen a tune that describes what transpired with the Casino "INDUSTRY" once computers and technology started making inroads into operations back in the 1990s.......a song titles something like "TITO killed the Gambling Star"    or    "Video Poker was killed by the Technology Star""Computer Chips killed the Video (poker) STar (i.e. Bob dancer)"    ---->  this title doesnt exactly conform to a catchy tune's structure, but it gets the gist of the theme across nicely, eh?What does everyone else have?Come on, all you would be poets and scribes (especially DORIS)....you all have the hearts (and spades, clubs  & diamonds) of muses and artists, stuck in the bodies of gamblers......let the soul-full musings come forth from within........!****END THREAD TANGENT / DIVERGENCE****

[DAAnMAAn]

Remember one time playing .25c 5-ply tdb at green valley ranch. Started with $500 was down to my last spin and didn't even have enough to play all lines max quarters,
Max bet was 25 quarters, I just had 22 for the spin. Well,
Flipped quad 2's with kicker for $2,200. Like Yogi Bera said, it ain't over till it's over.

[onemoretry]

I don't know if the term "greatest comeback ever" applies to what happened to me, but it certainly was pretty good.

We have just returned from a lengthy casino jaunt.

We flew from Buffalo to Las Vegas on September 23. We stayed three nights at Main Street Station, moved to the M for three nights, rented a car and drove to Laughlin for a two night stay (to achieve the 7 star level), drove back to Vegas for three more nights at Main Street Station, and, finally three more nights at the M, before flying back to Buffalo on October 7. We completed the saga with two nights at Seneca before finally driving home yesterday.

As I mentioned in the "I was dealt a royal" thread, the first nine plus days were absolutely brutal. I had one good day (+$700 thanks to five sets of deuces), one very small win of $50, and eight days or so of hell. When we moved from Main Street Station to the M on Sunday for our last three Vegas nights, I was down $2775. My only thought, really, was to try and complete the trip without visiting an ATM.

Then, it turned completely around. On Sunday afternoon at the M, I hit a $1250 royal on the three line 25c progressive.

On Monday, as I've reported in the other thread, I was dealt a royal on the that same machine for $3228 (I incorrectly stated on the other thread it was $3224).

Tuesday, again on that same triple line progressive, I hit another royal for a bit over $1000.

Add in five sets of deuces over that same three days, and I was up about $5650 at the M for the three night stay.

Just for good measure, our two night stay at Seneca netted me two more royals on 50c five play 8/5 bonus poker machines. That's seven royals in six days!

And, my $2775 deficit had turned into a $5900 winning trip.

When you play this game, you just never know what's going to happen.