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I'd been coming to Dotty's every other Friday after work for about three years, just playing twenty bucks at a time while I decompressed from my job at the warehouse. That night I felt lucky, so I put in fifty instead of my usual twenty. On my third spin of the Dancing Drums machine, the whole thing just lit up. I literally stood there shaking for five minutes before I could even walk to get someone. My hands were trembling so bad I could barely sign the paperwork. I'm paying off my truck and putting the rest toward my kid's college fund.

My buddy dragged me to Dotty's after we closed the hardware store where we work together. I'm not usualy a blackjack guy—I normally just mess around with slots—but I sat down at a table he was at. Staretd with fifty bucks and just kept doubling down at the right moments. After about two hours, the dealer was telling me I should probably quit while I'm ahead. That's when I knew it was real. I still text my buddy about it—he's never let me forget that I almost didn't go that night. Using it to finally take my wife on that trip to Sedona she's been wanting.

I'd been playing in the Saturday night tournaments at Dotty's for six months, never cashing more than a few hundred. This tournament had about forty people, and I was just trying to make it through the first round. Around midnight I caught a streak—I made some good reads, got lucky twice when I needed it, and suddenly I was at the final table. By 4 AM I was heads-up with a guy from Reno, and my pocket aces held up on the last hand. I actually cried in the bathroom before going back out to collect my chips. I'm using half to invest in my brother's construction business and keeping the other half safe for my family.

I was celebrating my birthday with my sister, and she kept insisting I play roulette even though I always stick to slots. I was a little tipsy and figured why not, dropped a hundred on black just for fun. It hit, so I let it ride on the same number. The next thing I know I'm staring at the board and my number came in. I grabbed my sister's arm so hard I probably left marks. She screamed louder than I did. The money's going toward starting my home bakery business that I've been talking about for years.

I was killing time before picking up my kids from school, just sitting at Buffalo Gold for maybe thirty minutes. I'd spent maybe forty bucks when the bonus round hit and the screen just started filling up with buffalo symbols. I remember thinking it had to be a glitch because the number kept going up. When it finally settled, I had to read it three times to make sure I was seeing it right. My ex-wife didn't believe me when I told her—she thought I was making it up to feel better about missing Christmas. Used most of it to finally give my kids the Christmas they deserved.

I'm a regular at Dotty's—been coming here for fifteen years on my days off from the bank. Three Card Poker's always been my game, small bets, just for entertainment really. This one afternoon I had a table to myself for a while, and I was getting some unusually good hands. Hit a straight flush, then another good run, and before I realized it my chip stack was enormous. The dealer kept congratulating me like she couldn't believe it either. My wife thinks I'm crazy but I'm finally building that workshop in the backyard that I've been planning.