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Beating Casino presents: The Biggest Wins in Casino History.

Some gamblers play using strategies they have learned and fit the game and their bankroll,

while others risk large sums of money on the off chance of an enormous win.

Both ways of gambling can be life changing if you happen to win large amounts of money,

turning ordinary people into millionaires in a matter of hours.

We are not here to say which way is the correct one to play, we have enough strategy videos

on our channel for you to watch and decide how you prefer to play at the casino, so in

this video, we will just share with you some of the biggest wins in casino history so you'll

see that anything is possible and that the house doesn't always wins.

Archie Karas (Poker & Craps) Archie Karas, also known as the "king of

the casinos," was able to turn $50 into $40 million!!!

Karas used to work as a waiter, until he learned about pool hustling, where he amassed serious

wealth, to the tune of $1 million.

He was never afraid of losing his money, and therefore he would bet, in a single throw

of the dice, what many gamblers might earn in a lifetime.

While playing high-stakes card games in Los Angeles, he won plenty of money, but was also

completely broke on numerous occasions.

It was December of 1992 when Archie began what many consider the greatest hot streak

in the history of gambling.

He had just lost $2 million during a Los Angeles high-stakes poker game, so he only had $50

to spare.

But that was enough to start winning, and winning big.

Archie began in Binion's Horseshoe casino where a friend spotted him $10,000 to play

high-stakes Razz, a game in which the lowest hand wins.

He went head-to-head with 15 of the world's greatest poker players, including Stu Unger,

Chip Reese, Johnny Chan and Puggy Pearson.

He won millions at poker before winning millions more at craps, eventually coming into possession

of the Horsehoe's $5,000 chips, worth $11 million.

By the time his run ended, he had won $17 million playing craps and poker at the Horseshoe.

Incidentally, he was able to repay the $10,000 loan with 50% interest.

His winning streak continued for over two years, until he had amassed $40 million.

He was able to turn $7 million into $17 million by besting some of the best poker players

in Vegas at seven-card stud.

He also earned over a million dollars playing nine-ball pool.

Even the occasional losing streak was not enough to keep him from winning far more than

he lost.

His winning streak, however, did eventually come to an end over a three-week period in

1995, where he lost $11 million playing craps.

He also lost $17 million at baccarat and another $2 million at poker.

He soon lost the remainder of his $40 million, although he was eventually able to borrow

$40,000 to win back $1 million.

Archie's luck may have ran out in spectacular fashion, but his phenomenal winning streak

remains the stuff of legend, and it is proof that anything is possible in gambling.

The wisdom is to know and save some on the side and not gamble it, so you'll still

be a millionaire and not become broke.

Elmer Sherwin (Megabucks Slots) In 1989, a man won $4.6 million on a Megabucks

slot machine at the Cannery Casino & Hotel in Vegas.

His name was Elmer Sherwin, and he beat the odds, not once but twice, on the same slot

machine.

Some people consider certain machines lucky, so, after Sherwin won his $4.6 million, he

continued playing the same machine until he eventually won $2.1 million in 2005 when he

was 92 years old, despite the odds of winning being estimated at one in fifty million!

Sherwin said he had been a fan of Megabucks for a long time.

He believed it would pay off eventually, and that belief sustained him for years until

his second win confirmed his instincts.

Sherwin's first win came on the casino's opening night, leading to speculation about

how big wins occur on opening nights.

But as everyone attempts to explain what cannot be explained, a mythology arises.

People may wonder how to duplicate Sherwin's luck, but so far, he remains the big winner,

twice over.

There are other big winners of Megabucks slots, including a retired flight attendant who risked

$300 in 1998 and won $27.5 million.

Such wins may be rare, but they do happen from time to time.

That is why playing the slots is so much fun and easy, as you risk a little (or any amount

you decided) and can win millions of millions of dollars, just by pushing a button…

Peter (Online Slots) Peter, a Norwegian gambler, has won one of

the largest online gambling payouts.

It may not be his real name, but that is not what is important.

What matters is that he became an online casino winner by playing a progressive jackpot slot

called Arabian Knights, and it was the fruit slot machine that made his surprise win possible,

as his winning streak netted him 11.7 million Euros

Peter played at the Betsson online casino which features the slogan, "Anything can

happen", and for him it did, it really happened and it changed his life for good.

Mike Ashley (Roulette) Mike Ashley, multi-billionaire owner of the

Newcastle United Football Club, was already famous when he won 1.6 million pounds in the

span of three hours at a roulette table in a London casino.

His lucky number was 17, and his method of betting focused on every possible combination

of that number.

As luck would have it, the roulette ball dropped into the 17 slot, converting his initial 480,000

pounds to three times that amount.

Ashley retrieved his winnings and called it a day.

The odds of hitting 17 were high, but Ashley must have known that even a lucky number rarely

strikes twice in a row.

However, in 2011, Ashley lost one million pounds in the span of two hours.

Still, he is a multi-billionaire, so we're not too worried about him.

Sean Connery (Roulette) Yes, that Sean Connery, the super spy James

Bond which happened to had a lot of luck betting on the number 17.

While at a casino in the Italian Alps, Connery put his money on 17.

He missed the first two times, but on the third spin, the ball landed on 17.

Leaving his winnings there, the croupier spun the wheel.

Surprisingly, the ball landed on 17 again.

What may have been even more surprising, or perhaps insane, was the fact that Connery

once again left his winnings in place, and you guessed it, the ball fell on 17 for the

third time in a row, against odds of 50,000 to 1.

Sean Connery then coolly collected his winnings of 10,000 pounds, which in today's market

could very well be worth 163,000 pounds.

Interesting fact is that there was a time when "17" was one of the most commonly

played numbers in roulette.

Not only did Connery win big on the number 17 in 1963, but he did the same in the 1971

Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.

Charlie Wells (Roulette) Way back, in 1891, Charlie Wells netted $1

million after playing roulette for 11 straight hours.

He was the man who literally "broke the bank at Monte Carlo," inspiring a famous

music hall song by Fred Gilbert.

Breaking the bank meant winning more chips than are available on the table, and Wells

did that not once, but 12 times in the course of the night.

It turns out Charlie Wells was a famous confidence trickster.

After making a profit from a fraudulent invention called the "musical jumping rope," he

decided to try his luck in Monte Carlo.

His game of choice was roulette, and it was at the roulette table that Wells took 4,000

francs in chips and turned them into a million francs, winning 23 out of 30 successive spins

at one point.

After winning a million francs, he came back to the same casino a year later and won another

million francs over the course of three days.

In today's dollars, his one million francs could be worth well over $20 million.

However, Luck was not always so kind to Wells, and after amassing more money from people

who had invested in a fuel-saving device he invented for steam ships, he lost everything

at gambling.

He later spent 11 years in prison in England for fraud and 5 years in a French prison before

he passed away in 1922, penniless and broke.

I guess you could call it karma…

William Darnborough (Roulette) William Darnborough hailed from Illinois when

he played roulette at a Monte Carlo casino, winning half a million dollars over the course

of 7 years between 1904 and 1911, which could be a staggering amount in today's market.

He had already become an expert gambler by playing roulette in the U.S. at illegal casinos

operated inside saloons.

It was said he was a wheel-watcher who could anticipate where the ball might land.

Unlike Wells, though, Darnborough quit playing while he was ahead, and thus kept all of his

fortune.

Don Johnson (Blackjack) Professional Gambler, Don Johnson, had a technique

when it came to blackjack.

He negotiated rules to give himself an edge, like splitting a favorable hand into four

separate hands, picking dealers who stopped drawing cards when a hand equaled 17, thus

increasing Johnson's chances of getting a better hand, and whenever he could, he would

double his bet.

Fortunately for Johnson, some casinos offer high-rollers 10% paybacks, meaning he could

keep an entire win while still keeping money after a loss.

By also negotiating the right to bet up to $25,000 a hand, he was able to multiply his

winnings much more quickly.

Although Johnson relied on luck as much as anyone else, his use of the rules left less

to chance and more to strategy, earning him $15 million from three casinos in half a year.

Ashley Revell (Roulette) Around 2003, Ashley Revell sold his home and

belongings in London and left for Vegas with roughly $135,000.

He risked it all by placing it on red on a roulette wheel at the Plaza Casino in downtown

Vegas.

He quickly doubled his money and left.

Although Revell was not a professional gambler, he assumed an enormous risk and won big.

He now owns iGaming Recruitment that helps staff gambling companies.

Kerry Packer (Blackjack & Baccarat) Billionaire Kerry Packer could afford to place

large bets, and so, during a 1995 trip to the MGM Grand in Vegas, he won between $20

and $40 million at blackjack and baccarat.

Allegedly, Packer played up to eight hands at once on multiple tables, betting up to

$250,000 a hand.

Forty minutes after his first bet, he had already won $25 million, finishing $20 million

ahead of where he started.

Lady Luck favored Packer on a number of other occasions from 2010 through 2011.

A $5.8 million win at the Tropicana Casino took under 12 hours, and also winning millions

over a number of nights at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

However, his luck turned two years later when he lost $28 million in a London casino.

Patricia Demauro (Craps) With its many betting options, craps gives

players a chance of winning big or losing big.

For Patricia Demauro, luck was on her side that day.

She had only played craps once before, so when she arrived at the craps table at the

Borgata in Atlantic City, she could not have been expecting to win 154 consecutive throws

in the span of 4 hours and 18 minutes.

Although she never revealed her winnings, she bought in for a mere $10 and could have

won hundreds of thousands of dollars with conservative bets.

If she were placing expert bets, winnings may have been in the millions.

It should be noted that the odds of her accomplishment were 1 in 1.56 trillion!!!

And yet it happened in one unbelievable night.

Other Notable Winnings The cases and stories covered in this video

are not that rare and there are actually huge casino payouts all the time.

Here are some other notable winnings that although crazy to believe, actually happened:

An anonymous man that was waiting for a basketball game at the Excalibur Casino won $39 million

dollars at a slot machine A woman visiting Vegas from Hawaii played

the same slot machine for three hours with less than $100 before winning close to $9

million.

Another woman won $680 on a Wheel of Fortune

machine at the Palace Station Hotel, later to win $27 million in a Megabucks jackpot.

I guess one win wasn't enough.

A Former owner of the Golden Nugget wrote of a video game developer called Mr. Royalty

who walked out with close to $5 million, only to come back a week later to win an additional

$1.5 million.

There is even a story of a homeless man who cashed a $400 social security check and turned

it into roughly $1.5 million at the Treasure Island casino.

Those who observed the man considered him the rudest and luckiest player they had ever

seen.

Unfortunately, the man later lost it all before being kicked out.

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Terrorgram (1990) - Movie Review - Duration: 10:04.

Hello good folks on Youtube!

Today I got another forgotten, obscure horror film from 1990 to talk about.

The film in question is a low budget horror anthology film, containing three short stories

that has demonic ghost kids, zombie soldiers and an insane serial killer.

I am Torstein from Cinema Terror and here is my review of Terrorgram.

The premise of Terrorgram is that we focus on three different people that each have done

others wrong in one way or another and karma has had enough of it and decided to make an

example out of all three.

This is done by each of them receiving a mysterious package by an equally mysterious delivery

boy.

What their package contains, will seal their faith.

The first segment is has the dour name of Heroine Overdose that makes sense and becomes

funny once you've finished the story.

It starts off at a movie set for a low budget slasher film with an hilariously over the

top killer.

Seriously, give me a full length movie with this monstrosity of a human being.

I was a bit sad when I saw the story start and see that he was only a character in a

film within this film, but he did end up making a glorious return later on in the segment

and that made me a very happy viewer.

Oh, the story.

So, basically this is about a sleazy, male chauvinistic pig of a film director named

Alan Smythee, get it?

Who does not have any respect for the women that he cast in his movies or how they are

portrayed on the screen.

After storming off the set in anger, he settles in at his office to fill up his vains with

drugs.

After this, he is transfered into a world where the genders have switches power positions

in the world.

All the females he comes across treat him like shit, the exact way he has treated women

in real life.

After some strange, funny moments, Smythee starts to realise that he is trapped within

his very own exploitation film scripts.

He starts to believe that he is just dreaming and tries his very best to wake up, but then

something frightening happens and he finally gets his comeuppance.

This was a fun segment with some hilarious moments to it.

Overall, it did feel like it dragged on a bit too long, a complaint I will have on more

than just this segment of the film, but it does take enough twists and turns for it to

be enjoyable.

Jerry Anderson is fun as the almost Gilbert Gottfried imitation of a sleazy exploitation

filmmaker and again, the story has this guy so you know we're off to a good start on this

anthology.

Between the segments there are some words of wisdom being delivered by none other than

James Earl Jones.

Not sure how they got him to do this, but props on them as there is not many other people

that I would rather listen to give voiceover narration than Jones.

I do think they could have used that money to create something more visually pleasing

though as these pauses between the short stories did very little for me.

The

second story of Terrorgram is called Pandora.

In this one we meet the ambitious news reporter Angela, who has no qualms of pushing the limits

and do whatever she can to get on top.

On her way either to or from work, I can't really remember, she accidentally hits and

kills a young child who was out playing around with his little jack in the box.

Instead of doing the right thing and call for help, she flees the scene to get back

to her job.

After finishing up her work, which included reporting on the accident that she had taken

part of, she heads back home and gets a package delivered at her door.

In the package is the exact same jack in the box that the child she ran down was playing

with.

While all three segments are nearly the same in terms of quality and enjoyment, I do think

that this one would be my favorite.

The idea of how ruthless news reporters and media has to be or way too often turn out

to be, is something that are even more relevant today than back in 1990 and I think they handled

the concept quite well in this, mixing up the seriousness of it with some cheesy, fun

monster action.

Angela is played by Linda Carol Turner in her, like many other performers from Terrorgram,

only credited role.

The majority of acting in this film is not very good, but I must say that I thought Turner

was a standout, even if she doesn't deliver anything that will blow you away.

Like the first segment, this also does overstay its welcome a bit, but the good parts of it

makes it easier to forgive it's slow moving pace.

It does remind me a bit of The Hitch-Hiker episode from Creepshow 2 in that it starts

with a car accident that ends deadly not only for the innocent part and as the makers of

Terrorgram seem to be very genre savvy, I wouldn't be surprised if they took a bit of

inspiration from that Creepshow story.

So, after a new quick interlude with James Earl Jones talking about something, we get

the third and final story of Terrorgram called Veteran's Day.

In this one we meet Eric Keller, played by J.T. Wallace.

He is going through a rough divorce after abusing both his wife and children and this

egotistical behavior is not new to him, as he has abused his power to hurt others for

years.

When he was younger, he snitched on an anti-war student named Novotny played by Michael Hartson.

This caused Novotny to be forced to join the military in the middle of the Vietnam war

and he never made it back home.

In present day on Veteran's Day, Keller gets a journal delivered to him which turns out

to be Novotny's from his days at war.

Keller soon gets transfered directly into the Vietnam war himself and now he gets to

experience everything that Novotny went through, all while Novotny's corpse is right there

to make fun of the situation and try to get through to Keller and make him understand

why he is put through this.

This segment reminded me a bit of the 1986 film House in that a soldier comes back from

death to haunt somebody, although this zombie sodier and the one in House has very different

motives.

The makeup effects are quite good and while this also is a story that could quickly turn

very dark, it stays upbeat by adding its own creative humour to it.

Like the other stories though, it feels like it goes on for a bit too long, but it is still

an enjoyable watch and an fun story.

Terrorgram is only about 87 minutes long and each segment gets around 25 minutes each,

which feels a bit too much on each segment.

I think I would have enjoyed this even more if they were able to cut out about five minutes

of each story and perhaps have room for a fourth one, although I'm sure that would be

stretching the budget as this is not a film with a lot of money behind it.

If they didn't have enough to add an extra story to it, then perhaps they could have

used the available running time to do something more creative with the wraparound parts.

If they could get James Earl Jones to do the voiceover narration, then I am sure they weren't

far from meeting his salary to just put some custome on him and make him a sort of cryptkeeper

type of characters in between the short stories.

Terrorgram is directed, produced and co-written by a guy named Stephen M. Kienzle.

This was surprisingly the only film he did and that kind of sucks.

While this isn't a masterpiece or anything like that, there is clearly an attempt here

to make something out of nothing and I wouldn't be surprised if he was a big horror movie

fan at the time either as Terrorgram does feel like a low budget version of things that

came before it like Creepshow and the Twilight Zone.

I like how he was able to make the stories connect on a thematic level and the creative

efforts in the screenplay makes it easier to look past the low production values that

they had to work with.

His voice comes through on Terrorgram and it feels like it is written by a young guy

with a bone to pick with certain elements of the so-called modern society.

And you know your talking about a filmmaker with a wicked sense of humour when he included

a colorful character like this guy right here.

Terrorgram is surprisingly solid.

It does drag at parts and the low production values does bring down its potential, but

the effort put into this doesn't make it hard to ignore its more cheap parts and still enjoy

it.

The anthology film I think it has the most in common with is Creepshow 2, so if you are

a fan of that or anthologies in general then I do think that this one is worth hunting

down.

Terrorgram was a nice surprise for me and I am going to give it the positive score of

3 out of 5.

Has anyone else out there experienced Terrorgram yet?

And how about recommending me some other unknown anthology films?

The comment section is wide open for your comments right below this video.

I recently saw and reviewed a new christmas horror anthology film called All the Creatures

Were Stirring, so if you want something more modern than Terrorgram, then check out my

review for that one.

I hope you enjoyed this video review of Terrorgram, like subscribe and all that usual stuff that

we Youtubers keep nagging you viewers about and I hope to see you again next time, here

on Cinema Terror.

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