Interested to hear everyone’s favourite gambling yarns. We’ve all got some.
I’ve never been a big winner on the punt, as in collecting thousands, but that’s due to my punting style. Never done a quaddie, first 4 only in the Melbourne Cup etc, I’m just a mug $20 a win or if I really like something $50 on the nose. Very rarely back something for the place.
Couple stand out for me, and it’s probably the circumstances surrounding the win that makes it most memorable to me.
Wandering down the street one day on the first Monday in November. Noticed a women standing with a $50 note under her foot. Told her, she says it’s not mine, you saw it, it’s yours. Easy come easy go I thought, put it on Might and Power to win the Melb Cup at $6.
Sweet!
Mrs heavily pregnant back in 2010. 2 days away from being induced. Wasn’t going to have a bet this particular Saturday. She’s snoring on the couch, so I thought bugger this, I’m gunna have a bet. Raced down to the TAB. $20 all up in the last 3 races at Doomben turned into a $720 collect.
But my favourite one is a day I don’t particularly remember very well. My bucks day back in 2008. Bunch of lads head to Doomben, then the Hamilton Bowls Club, followed by the Brekky Creek, then to Albion Park trots, followed by the casino finished off with some quality time at the strippers. Woke up the next day to find I had $400 more in my pocket than I left home with the previous day. If only every Saturday went like that!