Hi all, I'm new here and have been looking around enjoying all the trip reports etc. My husband and I are on our way to Biloxi, for a quick weekend trip, and I stopped by the bank to load up my bankroll and the teller gave me several $50 bills. Didn't think it was a big deal, till I told the hubby who freaked. He said that I could absolutely not insert those bills into a slot machine and needed to change them out before playing. Can anybody tell me what the hell he's talking about?

 

just an old superstition that they are unlucky for gamblers

 

I think it's a bunch of baloney..... I've had good sessions using 50's to get chips and lousy ones too...

 

Yep, what V said. Like 4s for Chinese, or walking through the lion's mouth ... oops. 13. Black cats. Upside down horseshoes. Goats in Chicago. Any number of other idiotic tribal fears handed down to us from not long after the first of us climbed down from the trees.

 

because they're bad luck of course!

 

one story is that when Bugsy was shot, he had 3 50's in his pocket

 

Of course it is but gamblers are a superstitious bunch. I wouldn't want to be THAT guy that sits down at a table, pulls out a wad of 50's and upsets anyone else at the table who DOES think it is bad luck. Karma and all that...plus he might jinx me

 

I've never heard about the $50 bill being unlucky either. Lol I never win and I usually do have some in my bankroll, so perhaps I will try it without them next month. Lol

 

I hadn't heard about it until a few years ago, just before a Vegas trip. I went to the bank to withdraw cash for the trip and they didn't have enough $100's so the teller asked me if I would take some of it in $50's. I wasn't thinking about the 50's being bad luck thing and said sure. I got to my car and I thought "oh fuck, I can't take 50's with me" so I went to another branch of my bank across town to change them for 100's. Yeah, I know it doesn't matter even one bit but like I said a few posts ago I didn't want to do anything that could potentially rock the boat.

 

I thought I read once it was because Grant is on it and he died broke?? Don't know if it is true or not. He was born in the wrong century. He'd be rich now.