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He lost $50,000. Every dollar he had. Late night. Blackjack table. One hand…gone. “I couldn’t breathe.” The next morning? Hungover. Broke. Friend Dragging him into Day 2 of a $360 tournament he didn’t even want to play. He tried to punt. He doubled. And somehow…turned it into $85,000. That’s...

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THE RUN Archie Karas drove into Las Vegas with $50 in his pocket. A little over two years later, he’d won so many of Binion’s $5,000 chips that Jack Binion asked him to sell some back so the casino would have enough in circulation. He’d already made and lost millions before 1992. In Vegas he borrowed $10,000 from a poker player he knew, sat down in a high-stakes Razz game, and walked out three hours later with $30,000. He paid back double and kept the rest. He found a pool hustler known only as Mr. X and they started at $5,000 a game. As Karas kept winning, the stakes climbed to $40,000 a game. He took $1.2 million off him at pool, then played him at poker and won another $3 million. Soon the biggest names in the game were sitting across from him — Stu Ungar, Chip Reese, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Moss, Puggy Pearson. He lost sessions to some of them, but the money kept moving his way more often than not. By the time the poker action dried up, his bankroll was in the tens of millions, and he turned to the dice tables. By early 1995, the man who’d arrived with $50 had roughly $40 million. He kept playing anyway, increasingly at craps and baccarat. Over about three weeks, he lost $11 million at craps, $2 million back to Reese, and another $17 million at baccarat. Thirty million dollars was gone. He left for Greece with roughly $12 million remaining, came back to Vegas, and kept going. Inside a month he was down to about $1 million. He won a million-dollar freezeout match and doubled himself back to $2 million, then took that money back to the tables and lost it too. Karas kept gambling for years afterward. In 2015, following a cheating conviction involving marked cards, Nevada put him in its Black Book, barring him from the state’s licensed casinos. He died in 2024 at 73. He’d turned $50 into roughly $40 million — and eventually lost it. Winning never seemed to give him much reason to stop.

Jake

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A Hall of Fame linebacker won $800,000 in one night at the blackjack table. The casino sent someone to his room to bring him back down before he could walk away with it. Eighteen months later, he was dead by suicide. – Junior Seau, a 12-time Pro Bowl linebacker, told his close friend Jay Auwae in mid-December 2010 that he'd just won close to $800,000 playing high-stakes blackjack in Las Vegas. – Auwae told him to "just chill" and let it be. – Seau agreed at first, relaxing by the pool with a drink. – Then casino staff came up to his room and asked him to come back down and play more. – He went back down and, according to Auwae, he lost close to $1 MILLION in about 90 minutes, betting $40,000 to $50,000 a hand. – Auwae found him afterward lying on the bed staring at the ceiling, and begged him to just go home. – Seau told him they had to win it back. – A separate October 2012 report from U-T San Diego found Seau already owed $1.3 MILLION in casino markers to the Bellagio and Caesars Palace just a month before this trip – And was independently losing $60,000 to $70,000 a month on a failing post-retirement restaurant investment. – People close to him described him growing increasingly distant and harder to reach during this period, disappearing on gambling trips and coming back wrecked. – On May 2, 2012, Seau died by suicide at his home in Oceanside, California. He was 43. – Researchers who examined his brain afterward confirmed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). He won a fortune in one night. The casino sent someone up to bring him back down to the tables before he could keep it. Less than two years later, he was gone.

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This man was criticized for expecting a “thank you” for a good deed. He always saw the same man walking when he drove to work. He assumed the man was walking because he did not have any other means of transportation. He used his own money and bought the man an electric scooter, the man took the scooter and just silently walked away, no thank you or anything else at all. I don’t think that was too much to ask, a thank you goes a long way, otherwise it makes people look ungrateful. Back in college, I had a classmate that I always saw walking home after class. It didn’t matter whether it was raining or snowing, or hot out. Whenever I drove past him he always looked miserable and I could tell he didn’t like to walk all the time. In class I had asked him where he lived, and I found out it was on my way home so I offered to drop him off because it was really cold out and had snowed about a foot. He agreed and we chatted on the way home, nothing serious just pleasant conversation. I dropped him off and went on my way home. For me this was a one time thing, I only offered because how bad it was snowing. After class the next day, he walked with me and when I got to my car he got in. I didn’t agree or offer him a ride that day but he assumed that since I was ok with giving him a ride the day prior that I would be ok with it this day too. I didn’t say anything about it because at this point I didn’t care really. So the next day came and went, once again he walked with me to the car but that day was different. I wouldn’t be going his way because I had to work after class. So before I got to the car I said “I’ll see you tomorrow.” He looked dumbfounded and said aren’t you taking me home? I said no, I have to get to work. He then asked me how he would get home, and I told him the same way you always have. He then gave me excuses for why I was being a jerk because I was making him walk in the cold. I didn’t argue I just told him I helped him out when I could, but I wasn’t about to go out of my way because he didn’t have a car and besides I didn’t want to be late for work. He didn’t speak to me for the rest of the semester because of it, something tells me I was better off not offering to help in the first place.

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🎙️ Charles Lee: "When (Kon Knueppel) had his draft workout, there was this level of seriousness with him. I walked over at one point to say something to him during a drill and I made a joke, and he looked at me like, 'This isn't funny. I'm here to work. I'm here to get drafted.'" "And I was like, 'I like this guy.' You can coach him hard. You can say what you need to say, and he can get the message without getting too emotional... he's just even-keeled. And I felt that during the season, he just doesn't back down from anybody. He's not afraid of a moment. We saw it a little bit at Duke, where he can be the guy that can play off of (Cooper) Flagg, and then all of a sudden Flagg goes down and he can be the guy, dominate the ball, and play with the ball." "LaMelo (Ball)'s on the court, Brandon (Miller)'s on the court, he can play with them, but then if they get hurt, he can step up and be the guy. He's so effective in a lot of different ways and he picks things up so quickly. How people are guarding him or watching Donovan Mitchell do his little high pickup and get fouled, now Kon's trying to do the high pickup and he gets fouled... it's fun to watch him play the game and how he approaches every day." 🎙️ Russillo: "I couldn't believe the way he saw the game at that age... my favorite part of him is, 'Alright, pick whatever other four you want, he'll figure out a way to fit in with the other four.' Doesn't matter, like any combination of the other four guys, he'll find a way to impact it."

r/CharlotteHornets

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Hell yes!! Jhared Hack just won his first start on the India Pro Tour with a final round 59* to win by 5. Jhared has become a good friend, we helped raise money for him a few times. Truly one of the nicest people in golf. Won the 2007 Western Am, beat Rickie and DJ in match play. Turned pro at 18. Now 20 years into his pro career he is still grinding. Years of driver yips. It got so bad his friends would try to convince him to not play in Vegas money games, they would feel guilty taking his money. He refused. Found his way out of them. Battled back. A ton of mini-tour players have been broke, but no one as many times as Jhared. And no one plays better when he's broke. Has won mini-tour events multiple times when his cards were maxed and it was win or be done. Has played most every tour in the world. DP, PGA, KFT, Latin, Canada, Morocco, China, and now India. After he missed at 2nd stage here he told Mark Baldwin he was going to play in India. We thought he was crazy (we still think he's crazy) . He won 1st stage there, finished 2nd at final, now won in his first start. Gets $25,000 for the win, will get into 2 Hotel Planners events, possible a DP event. Moved up 2000 spots in OWGR. Talked to him this morning when I woke up, he was ecstatic. “Going to have some beers” before he gets on his way to next weeks event. I love it, every second of it. This is why I started this account, for wins like this at events no one has ever heard of. (* par 69, around 6,000 yards. A 59 to win is impressive regardless, but for full context)

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