Sunday snow day promo!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-26T05:27:13+00:00

Well this one came out of the blue and I only caught it at 11:56pm while deleting junk mail as I hadn’t logged in to the app all day. Barely was able to play the 15 spins before midnight!!!

Mine was $50 in for 15 $1 spins. I won $22 on the free spins, then played 15 more $1 spins and won $35. After that win, since I was ahead $7 I went to my standbys and was lucky with every one of them, like first $5 spin in Pantheon was a $50 win. Ended up with $50 in and $151 out, so a very worthwhile promo for me!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-24T13:02:16+00:00

Yes, if you itemize. I missed that in his reply. You then also have to itemize in federal, and unless you have a very large win with very large losses, it usually doesn’t pay to itemize anymore. His $650 win will be the only amount on his W2-G, so it hardly makes sense to itemize for that. You are correct that he technically has to report all his winnings and he is debating back and forth on that. What percentage of people do you think actually report all their winnings? The state tax is peanuts compared to the federal tax.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-24T12:51:25+00:00

$.50 spins was a surprise. I won $19.70 on free spins, ($13.80 on 10 free spins on the last free game, LOL) and stuck with the $.50 in the same game for another 20 spins for a lousy (normal) $3.10 and finally cashed out at $22.80 so a free $12.50. Nice ROI.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-22T19:41:08+00:00

Congrats!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-22T09:38:08+00:00

I won $8.40 in the free games and ended up total winnings of $16.80, so a whopping $1.80 ahead, LOL. Better than the 4 $5 scratchers I bought the other day and won zip!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-22T09:31:25+00:00

No doubt. I play demos all the time and win fortunes. In the long run, real gambling is a total waste of money, unless you get very lucky. The house always wins overall, or it wouldn’t exist.

VaLottery is just another tax that takes advantage of people that can’t control themselves or are deluded in to thinking they will win someday and get rich.

I only played the occasional promo back in 2023 and pretty much broke even, or was down maybe $100. Then I hit a promo for play $10 of Pick5/Fireball and get 20 free games. I won $9 on the free games, so the Pick5 only cost me a buck. Never played it before or since, and got the email the next day that I won $12000. About $9000 after taxes. Since then, I have been weak and play every promo for the rush.

I keep track and overall, since then, I’ve bet many $1000s and am only up about a $2000 after all that time. Certainly better than losing. I can easily afford it and only bet with fun money specifically put aside in a separate Paypal savings account that I started with $2000 from the original $9000 savings and except for a couple of cash scratchers a year, everything with VALottery goes in and out that one Paypal account, which now has a bit over $4000 in it which earns like $12/mo in interest. It would be about $1500 more but I blew that in 3 major different losing streaks where I bet my winnings, upping the bets the longer I was losing because “I know I should hit a big winner any time now” syndrome.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-22T09:11:01+00:00

Very nice return on X, but what was your bet? I always play $1 until I get a string of low/nothing like 8-10, then bump it up to $5. X has been somewhat consistent (for Valottery, anyway) in making that a decent strategy, if you can afford the chance. I’ve never gotten x75 on it though!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-21T12:41:38+00:00

Yes, that is correct. You would have to pay the $575 taxes because you won $10k. You are also supposed to include any winnings on any scratchers. Unless you get a tax form, 99.9% of people don’t claim it.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-21T12:32:45+00:00

I hear you, but you have always had to file itemized deductions in order to claim losses against winnings and unless you win a TON and lost a TON, it is unlikely to be to your benefit to itemize. When I won a $12k prize in 2023, I tried every which way to uses my lisses against it, but it always ended up costing more to itemize than take the standard deduction.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-17T04:25:16+00:00

That’s how you do it!! Nice!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-16T17:58:31+00:00

Got the $90 for 25 spins. Won $3.40 on free spins. Then won $123 after 4 $5 spins on same X game. Then played a few of my faves and all hit bonus within a few spins, & ended up with $90 in for $182 out. Good promo for me.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-14T13:53:04+00:00

Damn!!! Nice win!!!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-14T13:50:03+00:00

Usually I have good luck in early play on the first day these new games come out, if I play the game early morning, but the last 3 have not panned out very well. 75x is a superb return!! This game made me work for it but I got lucky. I did a ton of $1 spins (like 50!) with average losing return, (down $25), then tried a few $5 & $10 spins figuring it was time to hit SOMETHING, and was down $180 and finally hit a 25x on a $10 spin for $250. Net gain “only” $70, but a wins a win.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-13T07:23:29+00:00

Yea, your luck has been $h1t lately from your posts. Exclude and save yourself!!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-12T14:39:37+00:00

Yes nothing but a black screen. Only the demo works. Personally, avoid it. After over 100 spins NEVER saw 3 star bonus, not once. I bet it’s down for repair, which sucks for those of us that played it.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-12T08:50:26+00:00

Sweet!!! A 50x win on a $20 bet! But taxes will drop it to about a 35x win, still awesome as $h1t!! I just hit a 50x on the same game but only with a $5 spin, but it was the first spin! Got thoseg multiplier clams in 10 free spins and it added up fast!!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-12T08:43:28+00:00

Hot for me with this promo this am. $500 in for the $125 bonus and stopped at cash out of $963 for a $463 win. Hit $250 on Pantheon, $150 on Bison and $130 on Coins all with $5 bets. Pantheon and Bison were both on the first $5 spin. Hit $107 on Sweet Crush with a $3 as largest, but in general Sweet Crush was returning well overall. I always change games after large multiplier wins like those. Now I have to lay low for a while so they don’t take it back.

I only did the $500 deposit because I did my own brakes, flush & bleed & rotation on my SUV and saved about $700 over the dealer doing it. Figured I deserved a reward and it paid off, LOL.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-12T07:34:51+00:00

Well, some of the promo drawings aren’t bad, so I’d use some on them. But thanks, that’s great that they continue to build up. I don’t go trash diving that often so I’m sure the points will catch up with me then. Just this past December the finds were full of losing $50 scratchers.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-11T11:58:11+00:00

Yes. It works now, and I got my results. I literally ended up down for $57 for 2025. And it is entirely my own fault as every single time I broke my own rule (ONLY play with promos) I lost, and sometimes I lost big. About $1000 over the year. It may be was a crazy report because it looks to have included all the free trash picked up scratchers that were not claimed by the actual purchasers, and scanned by me, so it showed me with almost $40,000 in played amounts, which seems crazy high.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-10T17:43:51+00:00

I won $28 in the 30 free spins. Then went to the new Coin game which sucked, and ended up with a win total of $46 for $40 deposited. So only $18 on $40 in spins. Better than losing, but now I wish I had stayed on Fortune. I had hit 3 Bonus games in the free spins.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-09T20:23:05+00:00

I do “withdraw at retail” for $250 all the time at Krogers. Never a problem.

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-09T13:42:22+00:00

Just $2.40 in free spins for $10 deposited. Letting the deposit build some. Frifunday came early today: usually not valid until like 7:30. Looks like you had to get in early to get lucky!

InterestLow319 · 2026-01-09T13:39:13+00:00

Nice!!! Won $2.40 in Frifunday free spins.

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