Over the next few months, I kept at it. Always disciplined, always careful, always withdrawing when I got ahead. Some nights I lost, and I walked away. Some nights I won, and the winnings went straight into the kitchen fund. I’d do the Vavada login almost every night, treating it like a weird little side job. By the time summer rolled around, I’d saved just over eight thousand dollars from my winnings. Combined with what we’d already saved, we had enough.