Press Your Luck | Michael Larson's spins of terror

It was taped May 1984, aired in June 1984. Michael Larson, an unemployed ice cream truck driver of Lebanon, OH would take some learned knowledge to the board, against Ed Long and Janie Litras (now known as Janie Litras-Dakan). This clip has all the spins that Michael took, along with some reactions from Peter Tomarken, and the number of spins Michael took.

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[gunnarbiker]

Notice how he celebrates before he even sees what the square is?

[abighairywoman]

Dude is a legend. You can talk shit all you want about what he did with the money, his criminal stuff but this is fuckin legendary

[Joey K]

Genius - glad he got to keep the money - sad end to the story

[hackvcs]

to give you an idea on how much he really won his winnings would be about $239,843 today due to inflation

[blackstar514]

Yo You Can Say He Really Killed The Game! Cause After This Aired Press Your Luck Went Off the Air And Never Heard Of Again. Great Game Show THough Wow was he GOOOD

[SeekerLancer]

I'm guessing it wasn't easy to change the pattern to a brand new one. They had a set of several different ones that they cycled through and he discovered how to recognize them all. All they could do was sit back and hope he'd stop before he ended up owning CBS.

[Jeff Larson]

It's obvious that he had the patterns memorized. What surprises me is that the game show directors couldn't figure that out. You think they could have changed the pattern on him. What really would have been funny is if he got a whammy at about 100,000.

[Chad Coulson]

STOP!! 32l;hfldkjfhklfjfjklfjwfjkelwe­jfwejkflkehhf!

[Scumoftheinternet]

Casinos will not kill anyone for cheating. They will throw your ass out take the money you stole and black list your dumb ass. Within minutes your face will be in most of the worlds automated camera facial id databases and will never be able to enter any of them for very long in till you are thrown back out.

[joni909]

he took advantage of a broken game.

kudos to him