I am the author of a new book Jackpot Chasers and it is hitting the world by storm.  To learn more about it go to www.xlibris.com/JackpotChasers.html so just say hi.  God bless the world and all his children.  Linda Mungerson Palmer

Peek of the book

We say, "Well, okay, let's do it." Another thing
Clark did tell us was that you shouldn't change your
numbers. Once you pick your nine numbers, just
leave them as it is. So we're sitting there, and we're
just talking and looking around at the excitement and
sounds that seemed to come from every square foot of
the casino . . . . and hoping that nobody's looking at
us, thinking that we're-the word is called "players"
which means professional gamblers. This casino
doesn't like to have players in there because a lot of
locals go there, and they spend a lot of money in the
casino. Then when companies come in to win the
jackpot, it really makes the local customers very mad,
and then they'll have a fi ght with the management,
threatening them that they're not going to go to that
casino anymore. They were going to ban it, and that's
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why the casino is so strict about companies coming
in to try to beat them.
Well, I look over at mom's machine. She's having
a diffi cult time. Her button is not working. I keep
saying, "Mom . . . . Mom, this is what you have to
do. Here you got to push it like this." She never plays
the slots so she's not used to it.
We'd been sitting there for about 45 minutes, and
I'm still trying to deal with Mom's machine. Then
we hear all these bells start ringing and, it seems, all
the lights on all the casino machines are blinking, I
look at Loretta, and she looks at me, I said, "I think
somebody won the jackpot." So we stood up, we
looked all around and we wondered who the person
was that won the jackpot. Then a woman right across
the way from us said,
"Turn around, look." My sister turned around and
looked, then hit me in the arm really hard. "Linda,
it's you. You won the jackpot."
I had picked all the 40s from 42 all the way to
50. All of the lights on the machine were lit up as
bright as the morning sun, and I couldn't believe it. I
started going hysterical. I started crying and laughing
at the same time. I mean, nothing like this has ever
happened to me. I fell in love with gambling right
then and there.
I have gone gambling many times, and I had
never won anything except for once, I think, a $500
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jackpot on a quarter slot. I look at my sister. "My
God, Loretta, this is unbelievable."
I'm thinking to myself, "Well, Linda . . . you have
to act like a good actress because you have to act
like you really won this jackpot. In my heart, I really
felt like I did. I'm hugging my mother, hugging my
sister, and everybody is surrounding us with all of
this excitement like, wow, $50,000, and that's what
I'm thinking, too.
I became very, very nervous like what happens
after this? Do I have to go through some kind
of interrogation? My mind was set at ease when
two of the casino attendants came over and said,
"Congratulations."
I said, Thank you, very much."
"May we take your picture?"
I really didn't know what to say about that, but
I fi gured it must be routine and I said, "Sure." So
I was sitting there with a big smile on my face in
front of the machine, and they took a couple of
photographs . . . . they kept one, and they gave
me the other one. They said they're going to put it
on their wall of big winners. I looked at mom and
Loretta.
"We've got to get out of here . . . . we got to
make a phone call . . . . have to tell Clark that we
won the jackpot." I have a strange feeling in my
stomach . . . . like I'm going to throw up, but I
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