What is the most money won........gambling

jungledude said:
I won over $40,000 in one night playing nine ball, and over $15,000 on several occassions. Also lost some big numbers too. I busted Archie the Greek in Baton Rouge and offered to play him a million dollar set of one pocket and he said he would but never backed it up. At 64 years old, I'll still play him a million dollar set, even though I haven't hit a ball in over 6 months. :p :D :p
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Yea but hump u r just like wine..u just keep getting better with age :thumbup:
 
houmatroy said:
Keith told me the biggest score he was ever in on was when Harry Platis staked him against this millionare for 25k a game giving the guy the 6 out & i think the breaks but not sure if it was winner break but they beat the guy out of $350,000 dollars.
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Didn't it take kieth all of 48 hours to lose all of that money?
 
mnorwood said:
Didn't it take kieth all of 48 hours to lose all of that money?
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Well nobody brags about their losses...so Keith never really said..but I don't think Harry gave Keith Half according to others that were there...I heard Harry only gave Keith 40k & let him have the lifetime "BITE"..in other words anytime Keith was in Seattle he could get like 2k...but that didn't come from Keith so I don't really know it to be true.
 
houmatroy said:
Keith told me the biggest score he was ever in on was when Harry Platis staked him against this millionare for 25k a game giving the guy the 6 out & i think the breaks but not sure if it was winner break but they beat the guy out of $350,000 dollars.
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....and 17 seconds later Keith was busted.
 
JimS said:
Happy to see you again!!
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My job is keeping me busy. :p

I actually only wanted to see if I could change my signature line with my recently acquired Fedor .gif file. The M-1 Challenge presented by Affliction has received a great deal of my attention in recent months, as has Obama.

Obama and Fedor, I guess life is good! :D
 
jay helfert said:
When Archie The Greek made his monster score in Vegas in the early 90's, it all started with a pool game. He ran into Bobby Baldwin the President of the Mirage Hotel in a local watering hole that had a bar table in it. The conversation got around to shooting pool and pretty soon these two were hooked up in a little $1,000 a game 9-Ball action. That soon escalated to ten thousand a game the first night and twenty thousand a game the second night. In the end Archie made off with a cool million playing bar table 9-Ball.

Baldwin then invited Archie to the Mirage for some heads up poker action. Another million later and Archie was on his way to the biggest run Vegas had ever seen. When he finally cooled down he was sitting on well in excess of thirty mil. And it all started with a pool game.
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FRICKEN WOW!!!

OMG that is sick. That would make a great movie.
 
JAM said:
Actually, it was a little longer than 17 seconds. I think it was more like a month, truth be told! :wink2:
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Hey Jen...Hope u & Keith are doing well....don't forget..ya'll got a cajun dinner waiting on ya'll if n when ya'll eva get back down to cajunland.:thumbup:
 
jay helfert said:
When Archie The Greek made his monster score in Vegas in the early 90's, it all started with a pool game. He ran into Bobby Baldwin the President of the Mirage Hotel in a local watering hole that had a bar table in it. The conversation got around to shooting pool and pretty soon these two were hooked up in a little $1,000 a game 9-Ball action. That soon escalated to ten thousand a game the first night and twenty thousand a game the second night. In the end Archie made off with a cool million playing bar table 9-Ball.

Baldwin then invited Archie to the Mirage for some heads up poker action. Another million later and Archie was on his way to the biggest run Vegas had ever seen. When he finally cooled down he was sitting on well in excess of thirty mil. And it all started with a pool game.
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This story can be caught on the Discovery Channel from time to time. It is pretty amazing!

I know a guy who offerd to launder the money for Archie for a a paultry 7% and Archie told him to stick it. The guy stii laughs aboutit today!

If I had won that amount and then blown it like that, I would have gotten to the top floor of the Mirage, and jumped,,,,,,head first!! Again, I never would have gotten tha far ahead and never been back!!
 
jay helfert said:
Archie also lost over 700K to Toby and Henry at the Cue Club in Vegas. It is true that he lost back most of the money he won on his big score, but since that time 15 years ago, he's had over a million dollar bankroll many times. He is one of the greatest all time gamblers ever!

He came in my poolroom at Hollywood Park five years ago and we matched up a friendly $500 One Pocket game. I was giving him 9-5. I won $5,500 over the next two days with the game progressing to 7-4. He disappeared for a week and came back and we matched up again, me giving him 5-3 and the break. This time the bet was a $1,000 a game. I won the first game and he then won seven in a row. My manager took me in the back office and told me I was totally going off. Archie had gotten my nose open and was now robbing me. I was so blind that I was ready to keep playing. My manager saved me that night. Archie is one sharp cookie.
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I was always under the impression that game went off @ cue topia LV' Fred G's joint????? Now closed sad, but true.....
 
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