5/5 Michael Larson on Press Your Luck

Michael Larson on Press your luck

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[MzTJones80]

These producers kill me. It's funny they see something "wrong" with ML AFTER the fact. I mean, if you "had a feeling" about this guy, why the hell did you let him on in the first place? Hell, I don't blame him; I blame the show for running the same damn pattern day after day. It's not cheating if you study for a test. Why is it cheating to study a game board? Scramble it up everyday and you wouldn't have had this problem.

[Sashinator0]

@MzTJones80 I mostly agree with you but I don't like your test analogy. He didn't study for the test, the teacher was dumb enough to give the same test for years, he figured that out, got a copy of the old test and memorized it.

[yankeesfan63000]

He should've stuck with $20,000 and then kept on going back.

A) He doesn't run the risk of losing concentration and/or getting mentally tired

B) I'm pretty sure in 1984 there was no limit to the number of times a champion could return, perhaps if he broke a certain amount of money but that's unbeknownst to me.

[Sashinator0]

@yankeesfan63000 During the show's first season, any contestant who won over $25,000 or 4 games in a row would retire undefeated, with the full amount won in his or her appearances. This was due to a CBS policy, which set a limit of $25,000 for its game shows. After Michael Larson's appearance, the earnings cap was officially raised to $50,000 or 5 appearances on November 1, 1984, and any amount past $75,000 that was won could not be kept, though no player had reached past that amount since.

[MsSuzyQ88]

@TheWolf119911 He got to keep his money. The episodes were also shown on tv. (even though it was against CBS program practices @ the time)

[CountArtha]

Ed lost his faith in God that day, but he found a new deity in Michael Larson.

[XehanortNobody]

@sharkie00000

Bullshit, he came, he saw, he trolled. He beated the system there is nothing wrong with that considering he wasnt getting money from an old lady, our taxes or an average joe, but from multi million perhaps billion dollars company.

[TheWolf119911]

i heard that the guys the producers were like flipping out every time he won hahaha way to go LARSON

[TheWolf119911]

@Sashinator0 so he got to keep his mone or not?

[foodiedave]

@LouisaNash You keep a pistol in your anus? That's very crafty of you.

[thisisntagoodname]

While creepy, the guy found the board's weak spots and memorized the correct pattern to exploit it.

I'm sure the crew responsible could just watch with their jaws on the floor as he kept taking more and more money from the network. :P

As far as I know this was the only time a contestant of any game show was able to get away with something like this.

[Tr3xKuro]

@Sashinator0

Both analogies are stretched and fail. The producers fucked up and got their asses handed to them. That's all there is to it.

[LouisaNash]

Imagine getting wammy with 100,000 ,i'd get a pistol out of ma anus and start shooting to the crow

[wazzupbrady92]

lol i love how this Sashinator0 person tagged the video with the word cheat. no amazing, incredible, or smart, but cheat? yes. was the word HATER around back then?