Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, a week of look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your house, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 364.

Have you ever won big at the casino?

We all dream about it could happen to us, but usually you end up losing or maybe walking away with a few extra dollars in your pocket.

Occasionally, though, someone hits it big big and this week's crew story is all about

someone who hit it big three times on one cruise. Here we go.

There's a lot to do on a real Caribbean cruise, but sometimes I get drawn, called to, lured into,

how everyone to look at it, into the casino. Hey, to me, it's good,

wholesome fun, even though you're going to be losing money more than likely. But if you're

going to lose money, at least do it in a fun way. And I do enjoy the casino from time to time.

And actually, a lot of people do as well. It's not for everybody. But, you know, sometimes it's just fun to drop 20 bucks in a machine or put it all on black and see what happens.

And I'll be honest, I usually win nothing.

Occasionally, I'll win a little bit of money, come back with 50 bucks and think I am the world's greatest gambler and that Kenny Rogers should have sang a song about me.

But that's not obviously what considered a big win, right?

We always want to be the always dream about being the big winner. And on this week's episode, we actually have a big win, right? We always want to be the always dream about being the big winner.

And on this week's episode, we actually have a big winner on board of this episode,

and that is Steve Hook, who is going to be talking to us about this.

Now, you have to forgive the quality of this episode because it's going to sound fine,

but unfortunately, I forgot to hit the record button at the very, very beginning of this.

So Steve began talking about the story of this, and we're going to jump right into the story here on his Symphony of the Seas Cruise that he took in September of 2019.

I recommend it.

Stayed the night in Miami, and then we picked up the ship Saturday morning.

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