Date night

On Thursday night, we had date night. We went to Canterbury Park to watch the horse races. It was pretty fun. There were nine races and I think I won on all of them except for two: the first one and some random one later. The first one I didn't win because I was timid and scared and didn't really know how to place a bet and made a solitary bet and didn't pick well enough I guess.

Then after that we went to Mystic Lake Casino. I was pretty proud of myself for having gone to the horse track and only spending $16 the whole night. So I put $20 in the first machine and cashed out when I was down $5. Then I moved on and made some money and got back to even. This up and down $5 went on for a while and I was pretty excited that I had been playing for so long on the same $20. That was until I went over to Sonny and saw that he had hit some jackpot or whatever and had won over 7000 credits. So after he won all those credits he decided to play max credits a couple times before moving to the next machine where he hit a jackpot and won an additional 4000+ credits. I was sad after that. Not sad that he was winning, but that I was still only on my first $20 and hadn't made any money.

So I went off to play a different game. I told Sonny where I was and ventured off. After playing for a while, I began to worry that Sonny was losing all the money because he wasn't coming and wasn't coming over to find me. But finally he did. He said that he had gotten up to around $300 but had played down to $250. He sat down next to me and played down to around $180. Meanwhile, I was hitting the bonus quite a bit and I even got to play the progressive jackpot and had worked up to $90. But in the end, I cashed out the $20 I put in and Sonny cashed out $150.

Moral of the story: When you are up at the casino, you should always cash out and then if you want to keep playing that machine, put $5 back in so you don't lose all your winnings.