Casino Winnings

[ssb]

Do you know someone personally that has won alot of money in the

casino?

 

Is there a formal verifiable list of winnings

and a percentage of pay out on each cruise,

or on a ship in a years time.

[LSpencer]

I won $750 on the Carnival Pride :) its not ALOT but it did buy me jewelry LOL

[tallyho8]

I know someone who won $1000. :) They lost it back in 2 hours. :(

[knotIn1]

You may find it amazing, but seems as though there are more winners then loosers here at CC. Or perhaps people will embelish their casino story when they are posting under a message board name abcd123.

[TEXASMUNK]

You are not going to get info on the casinos. And you will not see signs telling you that they payout 99.% of all slot bets like you do for all the US casinos.

Stick with the game that give you the best odds ....blackjack. But those odds only work if you know what you are doing...Hint...don't hit 18.

[dixieva]

$1200 on a dime machine on the Empress!

[msmayor]

I won $1,000 on a single hand of Let it Ride while sailing FOS...four 7's.

 

It happened on Thursday night; there were still two more nights left in the cruise but I was determined to leave a winner. After that hand, I scooped up my chips, cashed in and told my husband "I'm done for this trip!" He was stunned that I wasn't going to gamble any more, but man did it feel good to plunk that $1,000 down at guest services and totally clear our on-board account.

 

Royal Caribbean's money = best souvenir

[Robinhill]

You are not going to get info on the casinos. And you will not see signs telling you that they payout 99.% of all slot bets like you do for all the US casinos.

Stick with the game that give you the best odds ....blackjack. But those odds only work if you know what you are doing...Hint...don't hit 18.

 

i actually find between blackjack and three card poker that i win more in three card poker! I have tripled my total gambling for the week at least 4 separate sailings!

[Stoodo]

In my non scientific experience, I find the slots are "looser" at the beginning of the cruise and tighten up as the days go on. I have no proof of this.

 

I always seem to win big early. Then I start having fantasies of calculating how much I'd need to win in the casino so I could live on the ship continuously. :)

[softail]

I was on a carnival cruise 3 years ago and a friend of mine sailing with us won $9000.00 on a progressive slot machine the second night out. Also i just came off the Oasis on saturday and they reported that someone won $28,000.00 in the casino one night.

[tyler6597]

I've won the slot tournament 3 times for $1500 and assorted slot winnings totaling close to 2K on three cruises:D.

[Shekim]

Our last cruise a lady won a total of $2600 on 2 separate penny slots, within minutes of each other. She was playing one and hit the jackpot so while waiting to get paid she played the one next to it and won a jackpot! I guess it's all about being in the right place at the right time!

[Honey and Cinnamon]

There was a lady who won 27,000.00 on the Oasis last week she was told that she had to pay some kind of tariff on the money and when she got home she would have to pay some kind of tax. I heard that she had to give the ship her social security number, I could not understand why? On the slots I know for a fact a next door neighbor won a free cruise, so that was nice on the tournament slots! that was nice... we won little but four hundred dollars in pennies was good too... I took that home and bought a new washing machine when I got home!

[DHADEN]

You may find it amazing, but seems as though there are more winners then loosers here at CC. Or perhaps people will embelish their casino story when they are posting under a message board name abcd123.

 

I know it may seem that way, because we all have a story or two to tell.

We've been on 18 cruises, and out of all the hundreds of people and stories we've met, there was one in particular (one of our dinner table mates) who played the $25 slot one time, just to say he had done it, and hit $50000 jackpot. He bought the drinks that night. ;)

 

My personal big win was hitting $400 on the Wheel of Fortune. That's a lot for me.

[EngIceDave]

There was a lady who won 27,000.00 on the Oasis last week she was told that she had to pay some kind of tariff on the money and when she got home she would have to pay some kind of tax. I heard that she had to give the ship her social security number, I could not understand why? On the slots I know for a fact a next door neighbor won a free cruise, so that was nice on the tournament slots! that was nice... we won little but four hundred dollars in pennies was good too... I took that home and bought a new washing machine when I got home!

 

They probably wanted her SSN in order to issue her a W2G, which is documentation of winnings from gambling for tax purposes

 

Why they'd issue one in international waters, I have no idea, because gambling boats that go beyond the 3 mile limit are not required to issue a W2G

[yogimax]

In my non scientific experience, I find the slots are "looser" at the beginning of the cruise and tighten up as the days go on. I have no proof of this.

 

 

This is a myth. The slots are controlled by computer chips called random number generators. For the payout to change from the beginning to the end of the cruise, each machine would have to be opened and reprogrammed. That does not happen.

 

What may be perceived as looser slots at the beginning may simply be a function of more people playing, thus generating more winners (and losers).

[lorijm23]

I heard that she had to give the ship her social security number, I could not understand why?

 

All single winnings over $1200 are taxable. They have to report these winnings and you will receive a 1099 in the mail to file with your taxes. Have no idea how this works for passengers from other countries though.

 

When I was on the Carnival Glory, a woman next to me hit a $3000 jackpot on a penny machine the 1st night. I was pretty much breaking even on the one I was on and one a $100 bucks here or there so we pretty much stayed on those same machines throughout the cruise. On the 3rd night while we were both on our same machines, her friend ran over and told her that her husband had just hit $7500 on another machine. I said something to her about them both having good luck and she said that they had one $32,000 so far that year! I really think some people are just luckier than others. I've yet to win more than $275 at a time at sea or on land.

 

I do totally agree with what someone else said about the slots seeming to get tighter throughout the week. At the end of the week we seem to lose anything we won earlier in the week.

[msmayor]

They probably wanted her SSN in order to issue her a W2G, which is documentation of winnings from gambling for tax purposes

 

Why they'd issue one in international waters, I have no idea, because gambling boats that go beyond the 3 mile limit are not required to issue a W2G

 

It may have more to do with cash coming in to the US. Strictly regulated when dollar amounts go above $10,000.

[LSpencer]

There was a lady who won 27,000.00 on the Oasis last week she was told that she had to pay some kind of tariff on the money and when she got home she would have to pay some kind of tax. I heard that she had to give the ship her social security number, I could not understand why? On the slots I know for a fact a next door neighbor won a free cruise, so that was nice on the tournament slots! that was nice... we won little but four hundred dollars in pennies was good too... I took that home and bought a new washing machine when I got home!

 

Back in 2002 I had to give my info for $750. Not sure why I never received any tax papers to file on my taxes...

[EngIceDave]

It may have more to do with cash coming in to the US. Strictly regulated when dollar amounts go above $10,000.

 

Good point on the $10,000+

[LSpencer]

You may find it amazing, but seems as though there are more winners then loosers here at CC. Or perhaps people will embelish their casino story when they are posting under a message board name abcd123.

 

If anything I under estimated my winnings... I only counted the big win of $750... That is how much I won after I deducted what I started playing with.... I allowed myself $500 for the cruise... I had spent that and not won anything except small amounts which I kept playing then while my husband was finishing up his machine I had my "emergency" $20. I placed it in a progressive slot and on the second pull the bells and whistles went off.. I had no clue how much I had won until the attendant told me it was $750...

 

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[EngIceDave]

All single winnings over $1200 are taxable. They have to report these winnings and you will receive a 1099 in the mail to file with your taxes. Have no idea how this works for passengers from other countries though.

 

When I was on the Carnival Glory, a woman next to me hit a $3000 jackpot on a penny machine the 1st night. I was pretty much breaking even on the one I was on and one a $100 bucks here or there so we pretty much stayed on those same machines throughout the cruise. On the 3rd night while we were both on our same machines, her friend ran over and told her that her husband had just hit $7500 on another machine. I said something to her about them both having good luck and she said that they had one $32,000 so far that year! I really think some people are just luckier than others. I've yet to win more than $275 at a time at sea or on land.

 

I do totally agree with what someone else said about the slots seeming to get tighter throughout the week. At the end of the week we seem to lose anything we won earlier in the week.

 

The form is a W2G (not 1099) and the tightening machine thing is perception, mainly because as the week goes on, overall play goes down, so it seems as if less people are winning.

You cannot "tighten" a machine by flipping a switch. You have to physically swap out an RNG (random number generator) chip, which is very time consuming and could not be done without someone seeing it being done. If cruise lines were swapping RNG's in the middle of the night, someone over all these years would have seen and taken pictures...not like shipboard casinos are behind locked doors.

More action makes more winners.

 

Go to a land based casino in the morning and it seems like machines are tighter, because there's less people playing, so you see and hear less of the ringing bells and jackpot "island music"

 

It's just another way casinos mess with your head

[xxoocruiser]

There was a lady who won 27,000.00 on the Oasis last week she was told that she had to pay some kind of tariff on the money and when she got home she would have to pay some kind of tax. I heard that she had to give the ship her social security number, I could not understand why? quote]

 

The answer to your quesitons is that If you are a US Citizen, gambling winnings are taxable under the IRS Regulations regardless where in the world it's won.... even on a cruise ship. The cruise line will only pay out that kind of money after the passenger completes all the necessary forms with their SS Number as the Cruise Lines is required to report it to the IRS.

[dixieva]

Anyone know if they have many penny slots on the Enchantment?

[EngIceDave]

There was a lady who won 27,000.00 on the Oasis last week she was told that she had to pay some kind of tariff on the money and when she got home she would have to pay some kind of tax. I heard that she had to give the ship her social security number, I could not understand why? quote]

 

The answer to your quesitons is that If you are a US Citizen, gambling winnings are taxable under the IRS Regulations regardless where in the world it's won.... even on a cruise ship. The cruise line will only pay out that kind of money after the passenger completes all the necessary forms with their SS Number as the Cruise Lines is required to report it to the IRS.

 

But here's the argument to that, there are casino cruises on the east coast, go out for a 4 hour trip beyond the three mile limit to gamble, and return to port.

I have won THOUSANDS of dollars on some of those and never completed a W2G.

My largest was $6,750 on Sun Cruz out of Port Canaveral

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3517/3945766851_98cacec71c_b.jpg

 

So it seems there is a lot of inconsistency on enforcement, because I have both seen and heard of people win over the $1200 threshold and not get a W2G while some do.

 

I can only assume it has to depend on the ship's registry (Country of registration) and their agreement with the US Government in regards to winnings within their jurisdiction