Whats the most expensive thing you've ever won?
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I won a beta key for cataclysm in the very first contest that gave out keys, if I had sold it, I would have earned quite a bit of cash. Regrettably I didn't sell it, so when my guild won the screenshot competition for 10 more keys I was banging my head against the table.
Hit the Bad Beat Jackpot playing poker at one of the local casinos this last April for having four Queens busted by straight flush. Jackpot was 120,000 dollars. I got 60,000 (about 40k after taxes), the fella that won the hand got 30,000 and the other 8 people at the table got 3750 dollars each from splitting up the last 30,000.
Didn't do anything terribly exciting with it. Took a week off work. Paid off my car which ran me about 10k and bought some nice furniture and a nice TV. Threw 10k in the bank. Paid off about 8k in miscellaneous debt I had from credit cards and the like. Then paid up my rent and utilities a year or so in advance.
Didn't do anything terribly exciting with it. Took a week off work. Paid off my car which ran me about 10k and bought some nice furniture and a nice TV. Threw 10k in the bank. Paid off about 8k in miscellaneous debt I had from credit cards and the like. Then paid up my rent and utilities a year or so in advance.
I won a dictionary once, for writing a small piece about global warming. That was waaay back in elementary school.
Yeah. I never win shit. Other than that, the closest thing I could think of would be some sort of medal of valor from my high school, because finishing your last year with a plaster cast and a wheelchair and having spent the four other years navigating the school's corridors like Nathan Drake in a forbidden temple (having CP and being jostled around by thoughtless teens hurrying to class is so much fun) apparently constitutes a heroic feat.
It's like "Yay, you finished high school and you weren't flattened to a pulp by someone during one of the yearly fire drills! AWESOME! Achievement Unlocked!"
Patently ridiculous but, hey. A medal's a medal.
Yeah. I never win shit. Other than that, the closest thing I could think of would be some sort of medal of valor from my high school, because finishing your last year with a plaster cast and a wheelchair and having spent the four other years navigating the school's corridors like Nathan Drake in a forbidden temple (having CP and being jostled around by thoughtless teens hurrying to class is so much fun) apparently constitutes a heroic feat.
It's like "Yay, you finished high school and you weren't flattened to a pulp by someone during one of the yearly fire drills! AWESOME! Achievement Unlocked!"
Patently ridiculous but, hey. A medal's a medal.
Can't think of anything off the top of my head, so that obviously means I've never won anything worth remembering. Probably won some small money here and there from lottery tickets, but apart from that.. nothing.
I won an ibook G4 in a physics competition when I was in high school. They also flew me over to the national university to be in a discussion panel about physics along with some nobel prize winners. I wasn't even that good at physics, but apparently they didn't get a lot of entries. Also, I have never purchased an Apple product after I got that computer.
I won a wii when they first came out and all the shops were sold out. Damn my young, stupid mind for not selling it for profit straight away!
I... Really?Roofstone said:
And you sure that isn't Yen or something..?
If it isn't, then bloody hell. You just win.
Everything. Ever.
The first university I went to had a free poker club that was funded by the university. It had special university poker chips and money for prizes. It was set up to where there was a poker tournament every Thursday, and the top ten people in each tournament got points that added up over the year. Then at the end of the school year, the top forty players got to be in the final tournament.
I was good enough to get in that tournament and I got to the final table but was only able to get second, but second did have a nice prize, a Sony PSP.
Every tournament that year had prizes for usually the top 5 sometimes 8. I had done quite well during that year. Other than the PSP, I also won a twenty dollar Wal-Mart card, a Full Tilt Poker hat, around 50 dollars worth of food, and a DVD player.
I was good enough to get in that tournament and I got to the final table but was only able to get second, but second did have a nice prize, a Sony PSP.
Every tournament that year had prizes for usually the top 5 sometimes 8. I had done quite well during that year. Other than the PSP, I also won a twenty dollar Wal-Mart card, a Full Tilt Poker hat, around 50 dollars worth of food, and a DVD player.
Back when Mass Effect 1 was released, I won the Collector's Edition from some Sci-Fi (back when it was called Sci-Fi) competition/giveaway/random entry contest.
I had never won anything in my entire life before that... Actually, I don't think I've won anything since
But yea, I was friggin stoked. I think it was worth $100?
Played the shit out of it for months. Then ME2 came out and I didn't like it. Yep. That's my story.
I had never won anything in my entire life before that... Actually, I don't think I've won anything since
But yea, I was friggin stoked. I think it was worth $100?
Played the shit out of it for months. Then ME2 came out and I didn't like it. Yep. That's my story.
