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  • I win a lot gambling but I will never make it as far as him cause I know when to walk away....but i have ALOT of respect for people like him

  • "That's the life of a gambler"

    ... sad story honestly...should've been a poker player instead of a gambler.

  • LOL the title of this is hilarious! And yeah this is MAJOR face palm.

  • u ppl saying hes a dumb ass need to understand something. the reason y he was able to go as far as he did was b/c he didnt care about the money thats how he was able to make outrageous bets. half you idiots saying "i wouldve just stopped at 40mil" wouldve never gotten that far cuz once you doubled up you wouldve stopped

    karas was quoted saying he lives a rich and fulfilling life already and thus money meant nothing to him. thats something all should admire about the man not his hot streak

  • 20 million in 10 days, WTF? does he wipe his ass with 100 dollar notes and shit 100 times a day?

  • this is why you need good friends to talk sense into you

  • I was the same, never happy with my wins and I won a'lot If I won 2 grand I wanted 4 if I won 4 I wanted 6. etc. I would keep going until I busted it was like a fever that came over me I had no control. A smart gambler knows when to walk away, you can't just keep winning, sooner or later your going to bust, this is why I don't gamble no more!

  • the only one who truly outclasses phil ivey in terms of  gamble

  • Here's a tip for you next time you build a nice bankroll Archie, STOP PLAYING BACCARAT. After he lost $20 million playing that, why didn't he go back to playing craps to win back the money since he made money playing craps.

  • bankroll management?

  • oh so this is how the greeks got into debt

  • of course it bothers him, i bet every day he thinks what his life would of been like if he still had the money!! Ill bet 40 million on it haha

  • So I'm betting a million a roll all the way through for 3 years, and I ran it up to like over 40 million. That was a lot of money. UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY

  • Isildurs father

  • HOW THE FUCK IT IS POSSIBLE TO LOSE 40 MILLIONS???????????????

  • @slatz20 by being an idiot. I've done that before. lol

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  • LEGEND! PHIL IVEY DOESNT HAVE 40M! (fact) est net worth <20m

  • @skupernation est net worth 20 million (yeah by the IRS). Karas "LEGEND"- yeah if your a degenerate gambler. I love how ppl call this guy a legend.

  • @fahq12346 he made more money playing poker than anyone else in the history of gabling in the shortest amount of time. how is he not a legend? he wasnt playing against scrubs, he beat the very best players of his time. he = legend.

  • @skupernation Because he didn't make it all playing poker. He made most of his fortune playing craps (and other forms of dice) and baccarat.

  • @Dweller777 Ummmmm you must not know your history sir. He made most of his money playing POKER and craps, and LOST most of his money playing baccarat.

  • How to lose 40m? not even the 0.5% of the poker players can get 40m in 3 years in first place?

  • @Fr33co That is the amazing thing, probably largest bankroll since.....Stu Ungar? Same problem though, gambled it all away.

  • Donkfest ? he is a legend !!!

  • Poker Legend !

  • He's been a millionaire and broke many many more times than wiki/internet knows about. He is also well known in the pool world and was friends with my old boss Chuck Markulis.

  • adjusted for inflation, he lost the equivalent of 65 mill or so.

  • Isildur1?

  • Love the Frankie quote

  • "One man army"!

  • 'and I did it my way, eheheheehe'

  • respect 4 karas

  • Does anbody have any idea how much money he has now?

  • @rjh1284

    It probably changes every day so impossible to tell. One day 500k the next day 0.

  • @zenzaiL4D

    I doubt he still gambles crazy like that. He probably plays for higher stakes still but I'm sure he's at a point where he doesn't risk going broke anymore.

  • 3:30 EPIC XD

  • Great man...

  • sickkkkkkkkkkkkk LOL

  • If Hellmuth would be instead of Karas, it wouldn't be a handshake, it would be BEEP BEEEP BEEP fkin idiot called a raise with 52....

  • this man is the true definition of "to have balls"

  • @bobbytza13 .....yeah and no brains.

  • sad. bakkarat is a deadly game! 

  • Karas minus his gambling addiction = 20 braclets

  • @liewecz that makes no sense, ivey and all those multi-bracelet winners ARE gambling addicts

  • Stu Ungar is the real legend of card games.

  • ME SMILING...UKNOWIT....LOL

  • MY HERO

  • $20 million in ten days.....that's sick

  • It comes from the game it goes to the game

  • This is why I don't gamble...

    much respect to Karas, true gambler.

  • 1. 40 M $ high point profit in his carrier as a poker player

    2. Huge respect from Doyle Brunson (a poker legend)

    3. His name is known worldwide as a poker legend

    4. The incosivable strenght of character to carry on playing with 5 $ chips in the same places he used to play with millions

    5. The enormous courage it takes for someone to be a true dreamer these days

    6. Lost his bankroll NOT in poker but other LUCKY games

    7. Sarcastic comments of "poker pros" calling HIM a donkey

    Please die people...

  • What this video doesn't mention is how many times he's ran up this roll to $2-5M on a single night, only to lose it all the next day. He had stacks of 100's on the dice table at one time. I always wondered why he didn't get a private room when he was shooting dice and he said he loved the attention and the excitement of the crowd.

  • idiotizm.

    

  • If his house has no furniture like Viktor Blom, we know he's a true degenerate! Sick story for sure

  • When you don't play for money or win...the shape of your heart...

  • omg wtf lol 40 mil jees

  • its amazing the number of suckouts you see in the first days of WSOP, that's what I like about poker, its not because the stakes/buy-in are high that the players are necessarily good

  • thats a "FML" momment right there

  • well, everybody has their own opinions. i am a recovering gambling addict. gambling is not a joke. remember this : if u ever become addicted to gambling, u could end up losing much more than all your money. so some of u smartasses can keep on glorifying gambling. so i think if u are going to play for poker, just play it for fun and not real money

  • he was a true gambler, some people dont get that term

  • Isildur1 :)

  • what a big fucking idiot he is. 20 million$ in 10 days. and then he was to dumb to stop. and lost everything. what a donkey. the worst part is that he seems to be proud of it in a weard way. fuck u archie or wtf ur name is i dont care dont need to remember a loser.

  • @MrDard123 Can you not realise that the money meant NOTHING to him. You are probably different, but don't even bother trying to insult this man. Get back to your dead end job.

  • @MrDard123

    you try losing 20m and then not try getting it back with the other 20

  • Respect !

  • fucking moron

  • Archie isnt a degen donk, hes a fucking boss and id like to see you make even 1 million

  • LMAO donkfest losing 40 million deserves a more humiliating term then that

  • @thefrigidness ease off dude, i wished i had 40milllion to think about losing lol....id be happy with half a million lol

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  • -You're not being sarcastic at all?

    -Not at all, not whatsoever.

    And then that guy next to him says:

    -If you knew who he was, you'd understand.

    Cool stuff

  • anyone know the song they play during the montage?

  • Okay in my opinion a gambler is someone who gambles, he has no fear but can quit at times. A true gambler is someone who is full of action, gives action, and never gives up. He continues through the punches and pull himself off his knees. Many people might think he is a donk but you dont have a clue. He is maybe the best gambler of all time....true gambler of all time with Stu Ungar. No one in here has the balls to gamble so much and continue to live with themselves. NO ONE!!

  • Yeah, Phil Ivey should take some advice from this guy...lucks runs out...

  • He lost $20 million in 10 days, playing fucking bacarat? When defining the word gambler there should be a reference to this man's name.

  • the guys a fucking legend

  • Karas, Stay strong! its just a f*king game

  • A donk don't win 40 million

  • donkfest? are you serious this guy is one of the best and most legendary poker players in history

  • @MylesM316 hmmmm i didnt think about that lol...good one but unfortunately Tony g gave us a clue already, he is bewlow 21, sorry

  • good thing he didnt turn suicidal. maybe. i mean, thats a lot of money.

  • wat a guy. archie.

  • Karas is a degenerate gambler who went on a hot streak.

  • ARCHIE DOESNT GAMBLE FOR THE MONEY YOU IDIOTS ......LIKE AN ALCOHOLIC NEEDS HIS LIQUOR AND A CRACK HEAD NEEDS DRUGS HE GETS A RUSH FROM GAMBLING. THATS THE DEFINITION OF A TRUE GAMBLER, and YES ITS JUST AS BAD

  • God people like this make me sick lol, how could you be so stupid.

  • hey karas F U DONK

  • that aint 40 million u piece of shit, thats any torunament from the wsop,and the highest buy in from the 50 tournaments is the 40k or 50k event which each player have to pay. and the highest winning was 12million by jamie gold in 06, otherwise las t year it was 8 million or somethin, so shut the fuck up and dont lie to people u piece of shit @ uploader

  • it's CASH games (ring), not Wsop tournaments, you understand the difference?

  • thats obviously a tournament, its not cash game.

    listen to the commentator at 1:07, he talks from a KNOCKOUT, stupid moron,

    a tournament works whit the K.O. system

    and u can also see the betsize from both players, archie karas´ last move is that he calls the allin whit 3,500 chips, so where are the 40.000.000 dollars in chips?! rofl, so dumb as fuck, yes, archie lost in his lifetime everythng what he won(40 million) but not in only one pot, the motherfuckin uploader just want more views...

  • Stupid moron is something you keep for yourself Mr. Douchebag, I think I'll report your garbage shit over here.

  • DONKFEST

  • lol, He didn't lose 40 mil in poker. He lost it all in dice and Baccarat.

  • goes on TILT for 40 million, i cant begin to imagine that

  • life lessons from this guy....

  • first you earn $40 Million...

  • this guy reminds me of me. haha.

    respect dude your a gd guy

  • I Love Da Respect

  • 40 million, seriously man.

  • jesus...losing 20 million in 10 days is one thing but blowing your whole bankroll of 40 million. i would just shoot myself

  • Stupid fuck he would still be rich

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  • he should deduce from his bet that he tries to make a straight and reraise him massively or fold when he pushed alin

  • @Zarzycki1234

    If you knew anything about poker you would realize that even if the kid did have the straight, He was a 3 to 1 underdog to win the hand. So he was getting the correct odds. He may also do this with a lower set maybe even AK.

    0 fold equity.

  • I can't believe some people here are insulting one of greatest gamblers in the world. Whether you play poker, blackjack, baccarat, craps, or whatever, unless you can even reach hundredth of what he reached during his run, I suggest you stfu and respect the man for being the closest person to become casino's variance.

  • I like ppl playing poker, I don't like ppl gambling it.

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  • The guy in this video has no respect for the game, he's gambling and he's gambling hard. If he has a lucky day he wins, if he doesn't he loses. If the player actually tries to play the game the luck-factor won't be as big.

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  • You still don't get it. You'll have to be really fking unlucky to lose 40 million if you're playing your hands right. The guy won and lost that money because he gambled, he got lucky and won and then he got unlucky and lost. He's a disgrace to everyone who actually tries to play the game fair and square and aren't just playing roulette.

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  • so you are telling me he went on a lucky winning streak for 3 years? you know he didnt make 40m over night

  • poker is gambling

  • i dont knwo why people get offended when they tell the truth it is gambling

  • this is why gambling problems are so bad...especially when you start losing, but that's amazing how he crushed Unger, Reese, etc.

  • You'd think he'd know better then to play against the house. All that Poker skill and he's playing dice. Crazy. Guess that's what happens when you're addicted.

  • Yeah none of you would get to 40 mill becuase you would stop at 10k etc the money meant nothing to him it just proved that he was the best.

    And your saying this guys a donk, your a fucking idiot.

    1 star for the title, 5 for the great story.

  • i would probably do the same thing as archie. first i love poker, then dice, then bacarat. shit i give him credit for still being alive!

  • people should have respect for archie ..everybody have there own life

  • wtf buddy the whole point is to quit while your ahead and if you like gambling so much why not take your 40 mil and open your own casino nobody gets more action than the house and if you lose a bunch of money you are losing it to yourself lmao

  • Anyone who calls Karas a donkey is a clueless panty waste. First, the guy who called him with 2-5 was an idiot, especially after the flop and then he gets lucky on the turn, THAT'S the definition of a dumbass donkey. Then Karas tells a great story. Donkfest, you're a douchebag.

  • @southrules i think this play wasn't THAT bad from the 2-5 guy. he was in position, maybe the blinds were low enough to limp in.

  • @sandorlev

    It looks like there were a good bit of chips in the flop preflop, but you're right, without the preflop information, you really can't discuss this hand. The video is incomplete and fails.

  • @southrules U should check out the stats of that donkey his online name is belabacsi

  • @southrules Completely agree. This idiot is the fucking donkey who posted this. How easy is it after the fact to laugh about it. What a no life piece of shit.

    The loser showed class, grace and decency in congratulating the other guy too.

    Donkfest you are a fucking coward.

  • @southrules what do you mean on the flop? Traply bet on the flop and karas was the one who called.

  • @samueljue

    pre-flop

  • 40 mil and gone.....dam.....

  • What?????? he had 40 mil and lost it all quicker than it took to get it. if i ever had 40 mil id consider myself lucky keep 35 mill be set for life and never touch it and spend the rest of my life just messing around w the five mill left over

  • 1. he lost the money on bacharat...

    2. this play with trip aces wasnt wrong. If are skilled enough to put a guy on a 5... well, you are a genius. Or go allin with trip aces and win small pots...

  • this was not trip aces!This is called set!When youve got a pocket pair and you hit 3rd on the flop is called SET

    Trip is when the board is paired

  • @landreev is there really a difference?

  • @landreev

    you have a point: set is different from trips... but i had used the same term the people are saying to not confuse them...

  • landreev i might let you comment on poker videos if you knew what the fuck you were talking about

  • shut up idiots im right

  • @landreev

    stfu idiot

  • "They didn't wnna play me anymore so I HAD to play dice" lol

  • you all are just morons that coment on his life saying should of done this and that....

    this guy is a legand... he did not do it to be rich and invest in business... this guy made his millions beating every top players in the gampling world.... and did it with class.... and all of you that are saying i would of invest.... well bla bla bla to that... you will never win 40 million likek he did... cause of one thing.... you all love money.

  • Just cause u said that i hope heart and soul u'll one day experience exactly what he did..But you'll come back and comment :"i wouldn't be such an idiot not to invest,blah-blah",but hey,you'll never win so much money even if u die trying..

  • You're seriously claiming that if I won that much I wouldn't invest it? On what basis? I know I would. Any one that bets that much on craps is an idiot, unless they're a billionaire and doing it for fun.

  • I would invest it,but the thing is that u and me will never see that much money in our trunk m8...He was sick with gambling,a person like him CANT see the option of investing the money but gamble more and more...He could've ended up dying with 500 billion dollars...You can tell he has kind of lost it after what he's been through,at least respect that and dont insult him..

  • Well if he wanted to gamble so bad he could have at least done it at much lower stakes instead of throwing half his bankroll away in a week...

  • You obviously DON NOT understand what gambling problem is..End of discussion.

  • I understand what a gambling problem is. And I'm saying that people with a gambling problem are morons. No end of discussion.

  • well said they deserve no sympathy

  • Have a heart idiots. He's brave for not committing suicide.

  • What an absolute nugget.

  • 20million in 10days

    thats like 8333$ per 1hour

    *sick*

  • He made a few million in LA and then went totally broke. With $50 he drove to Vegas and won. But he was a gambling addict, not a player, he'd win a lot with all kinds of games, used that to play high stakes poker. But he never saved anything, kept his money in the trunk of his car and in credit, then when nobody wanted to play poker against him, he'd have the casinos run high stakes craps for him, and he wasted his entire fortune on it till he was flat broke again.

  • this guy was inducted into the hall of fame of poker worlds best poker player ate chip reese ,doyle brunson, chan ,stu ungar ,for breakfast ..he went on" the run" in vegas and once cleaned out binions for all there 5000 dollar chips....u watch durr and ivey and antonius and go ohh my god well while those jokes play 500/1000 pot limit he was playing in the 70s 8000/16000 no limit ...hed burn a million on a dice roll....this guy was the m/f of all m/fs....

  • agree 100%

  • what sort of idiot builds a 40 mill bankroll and doesnt save or invest a million or two.

  • a gambler?

  • fag

  • someone addicted to action.

  • thats how i lose in poker

  • how is that 40 mill?????????

  • [ ] watched video

    [X] half retarded

  • lmao

  • to the poster : that's call BIG gambling, donkfest is what u do on $0.25/$0.5 tables online

  • Archie, hype? You got the wrong guy, those stories of him rolling the dice for $300k are true. Not once or twice, but all night long. I stood on the rail more than once as he pushed rack after rack to the line. The stories you hear are only the tip of the iceberg of what he did.

    As far as donkfest...HAHAHAHAHAHA. Those who say that aren't good enough to rack his chips.

  • Everyone who played highstakes hu poker with him lost in the long run. Sure, he has a curse of gambling, but the man is a genius when it comes to the game of poker. Even though he lost it all, at least he got there, something you and I are totally incapable of. His life experience is one of a kind. If you play poker and can't respect that man then there's something seriously wrong with you.

  • pay some repsect bozos...common donks..

  • not ebing funny but how can someone earn 40 million and then lose it all? Maybe if you lost say 10 million ......

    But also i think hes LOL - because, in thie history of Vegas, someone like him was bound to come along at some point - someone who wins HUGE but then loses it all

    But if it was me..... i would have say won 40 miillion, maybe lost back 10 million but kept the remaining 30 million so hed never have to work again in his life time!

  • The reason he got to 40 million is the same reason he lost it all.

    You would never get to 40 million because at soe point when you had a few hundred K you would start living responsibly most likely. Archie just continued gambling ridiculously amounts until his lucky run ended, as I see it. If he was really that good at poker he could easily get rich again, but most likely he just had a sick run of luck.

  • i agree with you.  But ive heard he is still very good at poker. in the wsop supposedly he 3rd or 4th in 7 card stud and toko home something like 200k so clearly the man still knows what hes doing!

    Also... supposedly he went to the Craps tables with the winnings LOL he still doesnt give a shit by the looks of it!!

  • He consistently wins a lot at poker but immediately loses it playing craps, then gets staked again. But once he kept pressing his bets and ran it up to $40M for a while.