Jackpot!

Really, this time. So when I was out in Minnesota, I got out to Canterbury Park on Thursday evening the 14th of May. It turns out that day is also my anniversary. After going out to dinner with my wife, at this nice restaurant Chambers, my wife gave her blessing for me to go play some pokers at Canterbury Park. I'm never one to say no to a good time gambling, so off I went.

A little after 1am Minnesota time, I was still on California time, I never bother to change my watch whenever I go to Minnesota, I got a player share of the bad beat jackpot in Minnesota. Fitting, that the place I rarely play I got a piece of something I hardly pay into, but at the place I play all the time (Oceans-11), I have never won the bad beat. In any case, the bad beat jackpot was a little over 32k, and at Canterbury Park they split it up 50/25/25. We were 7 handed, so I got a little over 1600 for being a lucky sap occupying space at a poker table. The hand in question was a weird way to win it too. I forgot the exact position and details, but one guy, flopped the nut flush, while another guy flopped top two pair. The nut flush check/raised the flop, and lead in on the turn when he turned the royal. The two pair guy, almost mucked, but decided to make a bad call drawing dead, but with 2 possible outs to a bad beat jackpot. He hit it on the river and I think 5 bets went in before the full house just called, he said later he was actually afraid that the other guy had AQ, for a bigger full house. The guy with the royal knew it was a jackpot, because he told the other guy when he just called, don't muck your hand, you have aces full right? He did indeed and we got paid, eventually, like 30 or 40 minutes later. Not sure what took them so long to pay us off. Now the only thing that sucks, is I'm not sure if I need to file a Minnesota tax return now for this year, since they issued as a W-2 for the winnings. That part kind of sucks.