{"id":2253,"date":"2014-08-06T09:19:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2014-08-06T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:19:34","slug":"the-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/the-gamble\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local casino is giving away $25 per week for the month of August. Annie and I went last night and brought no cash. We decided to spend our 25 free dollars and cash out anything we won.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving and sliding my player&#8217;s card into the slot to redeem my promo dollars, I learned I had $35, Annie had $40. (The night&#8217;s first win.)<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I do poorly. I win a little but here and there. I won $60 once. That&#8217;s my biggest win that I walked out with.<\/p>\n<p>Last night was different. Playing <em>Let&#8217;s Make a Deal<\/em> I won a spin on the big wheel. And while I did not win the $8,000 jackpot, I did win a series of spins.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LetsMakeADeal-1.jpg?w=788\" alt=\"First win\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>$59.91. $82.24.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LetsMakeADeal-2.jpg?w=788\" alt=\"Second win\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a good night for me. We walked out with $227.35 in our pockets. And the moment our promotional dollars were gone, we left.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to returning next week. Even if I walk out with $10, it is more than I had before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Having the discipline to pocket the money and walk away is the biggest win of all.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local casino is giving away $25 per week for the month of August. Annie and I went last night and brought no cash. We decided to spend our 25 free dollars and cash out anything we won. Upon arriving and sliding my player&#8217;s card into the slot to redeem my promo dollars, I learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - The Gamble. \r\nWinning, discipline, and walking away.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[666,665,667],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-casino","tag-gamble","tag-maryland-live"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}