Exactly, anyone who wins a few thousand under normal rules get read a trespass card and escorted out for being an Advantage Player, this dude is sucking someone off or this is a publicity stunt. Any real skilled gambler wouldn't ever admit that they're an advantage player because they'd be banned all over town.
I tried investing in Bitcoin mid this year but didn't due to the huge money I lost while playing casino, can someone give me a suggestion of a broker who can help me invest in bitcoin
The best investment one can do right now is investing on Cryptocurrency though stocks are good but ever since I swapped to bitcoin trading , I've seen so much difference
It's only a matter of what you believe and don't believe...like the church...the digital world has taken over the old believers and new generation of believers , halleluja social media...and don't forget...All for the money. In general one big mindfuck 🧐🙏.
@@meb6869ohh you poor child, are you just labeling things in a political sense so you can understand the world around you? Thats so sad Whether you are a conservative or liberal, you can be racist… dumbass
Tired of hearing about that shit. Just live and quit worrying about what somebody said about you. Bunch of communist ash holes. I've read book and quotes from damn '30s and captured communist files from searches and it's basic communist tactics to attack police and cry racism whenever possible. That's because they're counting on "useful idiots (look it up)" like you to do their bidding. Then when the net drops, you'll be shipped to same camp the rest go to.
I've lived in Reno for a long time. Fortunately, I never got into gambling. I have literally watched careers and marriages destroyed when people move here from out of state and didn't realize they have a gambling problem.
He got 20 pts from the joint! That's more than enough to completely dominate a near 50/50 game. No doubt Don is an expert in undervalued horse plays - overlays. Hard to imaging he was a 108 lb jockey.
Thats not how rebates work. Rebates only are given on losses. You dont have a 20% edge just because you get a rebate. If you are losing at 1% pa the rebate merely means you are losing at 0.8% pa.
I used to be a limousine driver at a hotel /casino. I can tell you with 100% certainty that the really huge players (which are the only clientele I had) almost always lost. Sure they would occasionally have a night where they beat the casino but they would usually end up losing it back the next night or before they went home. Most of these people donated $10M+ by the end of the year to the casino so my picking them up on their comped ride on the casino's private jet really didn't do them any good.
me to actually I am actually front lines of casino life. Deal to these "winners" and i have yet to see a true winner. only rare when they win progressives on table games.. but that"s just PR for the casinos!! but hey we could be wrong lol... HAVE FUN DONT SPEND WHAT YOU DONT HAVE
So so true. No matter how much you win it will NEVER be enough. It never makes up for the previous losses. And if you do win big you WILL GIVE IT BACK as quickly as you won it.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 I didn't. I don"t usually deal blackjack in limits he would play, he is to serious or fancy for me. plus If he has a strategy to win like that its not betting on craps tables where its fun hehe
I've been a casino dealer for 15 years, less than 1% of gamblers win. Even the card counters lose. Unless you're filthy rich, stay away, you don't have a chance of winning in any casino.
The percentage of winners are much higher than 1% but people (including myself) don’t walk away when up. Filthy rich means nothing either if the guy doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together and keeps losing into bankruptcy. Overall Casinos are the biggest waste of time for the players.
"There's a natural collision of interest between the marketing side and the operations side." This can be said of just about any service-oriented business, really. Casinos, hotels, airlines, cruise lines, restaurants, nightclubs, theme parks...
I loved old Las Vegas. Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Sam Butera and the Witnesses. The Rat Pack, everything's a bargain from hotels to drinks. The Pit Bosses knew who you were most of the time and what drink you liked and made sure you had what you needed to stay, and keep playing. They made you feel like a very important person even when you weren't. Now, it's a carnival, a freak show.
@@edhollingsworth2335 It sounds like he doesn't have secrets. His secret was to listen to what they offered him and then figure out that it gave him an edge over the house. Some of the things they offered him were: Dealer must stay on soft 17, a 20% rebate for all losses exceeding $500,000, and re-split aces.
Cheers for this, I've been looking for "copeland's magnolia mushroom recipe" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Aonyanaler Bewildering Asset - (search on google ) ? It is a smashing one of a kind guide for discovering how to making money with a proven roulette system without the headache. Ive heard some great things about it and my mate got amazing results with it.
There are 2 important things to remember - first play as little as possible, the longer you play the higher the probability of a loss and second aim for a small profit.
Depends on what you are playing and whether you have an advantage or not. If you do, then the more you play the larger the sample size of events becomes, and the smaller the percentage of standard deviation from your known average wining percent becomes. This gentleman had an advantage and so the more he applied that advantage the more he won. Most people don't have an advantage.I do like the idea of small profits. They add up and putting your eggs in many different baskets allows you to ride out the ups and downs.
OK. In a nutshell: Find a Casino that is struggling. Negotiate your way into improving the odds - literally get them to change the rules to your favor and get monetary discounts. Intimidate & confuse the dealer into breaking the silly rules you got them to agree to. Bet Big. Before all that, be a math /card-counting genius, but let them think you are a so-so player. Its just THAT easy. The only real secret here is negotiating terms and sandbagging. There, I saved you 46 minutes and change.
@@captaincrook22 it means bluffing or holding back information. Pretend you are a so-so player until you’re ready to make the big kill, then play to your best ability.
With decades of dealing ,playing experience ,found information mostly spot on but when he talks about beating the dealers because they might be nervous and make a mistake a red flag is raised,not that the dealer is infallible but at high stakes there is probably a minimum of 5 eyes watching every hand,the dealer a pit boss and the one in the sky.
Blackjack is just one such game that people can play professionally. I would love to see a documentary that covers a number of them. Of course, some cannot be played "professionally" due to the house edge that cannot be bypassed.
As far as I know, Blackjack and a handful of video poker games are the only games that can be beaten by skill, on any kind of consistent basis, but, even if the player can gain an advantage, the games still have a good bit of chance in them. I mean, as a professional Blackjack player you can literally do everything right and still lose big, it's simply a matter of how the cards come out of the shoe/off the deck.
@@mydogskips2 Correct, most casinos "group" the cards, which is another reason it is so difficult to beat. In the long run though, the true pros do come out on top. It is just exceedingly difficult to keep both counts with all of the distractions that occur inside of a casino. Personally, I do the best with horses and craps, but that's just me. Friends of mine do well with Baccarat.
I’m willing to bet the local casinos do more harm to local communities then they do Good. Most casinos are fully of the elderly or the poor, but groups can’t afford to lose money. One of my friends uncles would lose all his money in the first week of the month, and the rely on handouts or food stamps to survive.
Great job Donnie. Love to see that American want to and drive,men like Don have the same DNA that settled the wildlands of the West and made our country grow. great preparation and planning and unbelievable nerves to be able to gamble? That kind of money
The only way that works is if you up your bets when you have the advantage. They look for that. They would have stopped him playing. He gained his advantage by negotiating the 20% rebate for losses over $500,000. Also they gave him $50,000 in free chips every day he played. But where he really got them was every time the dealer made an error, he would get a free bet. 3 or 4 mistakes a day can make a big difference in the long run.
Exactly, what a worthless documentary. Every time they go into the commercials 'You want to know how he beat the house? See it next!', and then you watch 20 minutes, nothing happens. The advantage he has is a load of bull too btw, he got lucky and he just had shitty dealers. If he were to play normal without those bad dealers it would have been a gamble still.
His advantage is that he negotiates special blackjack rules that give him a positive expected value (EV). Ordinary players cannot play under those special rules. He also negotiates cash rebates based on the amount and duration of his play. He gets the rebates regardless of whether he wins or loses.
I work at a casino, we often get asked if we get 'card counters' at our tables. Yes, but it doesn't give them the advantage they think - if you play perfectly, the house still has a slight edge. Don Johnson negotiated special 'high roller' conditions that ordinary punters would never have got, and cleverly took advantage of them to win big. People have this expectation that counting cards is a rare ability that guarantees you huge wins and Kate Bosworth as your girlfriend. All I can really suggest is that you only play roulette on single 0 tables, and blackjack paying 3 to 2 odds.
@@khunopie9159 not true at all 😂 I'm on the road full time. It's not easy but it's worth it. Because sleeping in my uncles basement delivering pizza wasn't saving me any money I can tell you that much!
Your correct about Single 0 being better than 0 0. And only playing 3 to 2 odds on BJ. But casinos destroy Roulette players because player loses 35 of 36 plays ? Almost every Roulette player bust out, taps out, leaves with his pockets inside out. But I could be wrong?
@@kurtkensson2059 No, meathead. The exact opposite is true. Unless you are PRO drinking your own urine and eating horse heart dewormer paste, instead of receiving a vaccination. Just admit it already, mumblefuck you took a civics class in your life, did you.
The last time I went to Vegas, my parents were still living and wanted my wife and I to join them. The town was packed with people. My wife and I aren't big gamblers, so we'd spend the days strolling down the strip and checking out the architecture. Understandably, people kept bumping into us. But for three days, not one of those people said. "Excuse me." I don't know if that town brings out the rudeness in people or just attracts rude people, but I never want to go back. I used to love Vegas in the 50s and 60s, when the mob ran it. It was small, slow-paced, and everyone treated you like a king. If you were going to a dinner show that evening, you'd visit the Maitre d' that day, slip him $10, and you'd get a great table close to the performers. Now you buy a ticket in a booth and you're just another chump. Vegas is full of money, but devoid of class.
In general people now are more rude. 30 years ago I was gambling for 1st time,I was nervous and by mistake hit hard 17. My buddy told the pit boss...the guy laughed and let me play the hand over.....different world today!
Exactly, anyone who wins a few thousand under normal rules get read a trespass card and escorted out for being an Advantage Player, this dude is sucking someone off or this is a publicity stunt. Any real skilled gambler wouldn't ever admit that they're an advantage player because they'd be banned all over town.
@@hendo337 he's already banned. The whales gamble in private rooms... So you won't see a guy sitting next to you playing $100k per hand. I'm sure the casinos Make all sorts of accommodations to high rollers. Maybe not to the extent shared in this documentary... But they still make concessions.
Gambling is a terrible devil! Most people don't even know the odds they are betting against. This guy I work with said he won $8000.00 but I talked with his wife and she said he spent $16,000.00 to win that money, so, he was $8000.00 in the hole or a loss.
I used to deal blackjack and in most cases VIP's if they argue a misdealt hand they would win the hand or at the very least have their hand pushed back. Regular Joe's usually get the short end of the stick. As Don mentioned a dealer dealing to a guy like this is a high pressure situation. Mistakes will happen and a fold signal can be misinterpreted as a hit. If he could negotiate splitting of AA and also re-splitting etc this is a big edge for the player. Add in 50k free money to start and discounts if you lose. Free food and drinks and Hotel rooms etc of course he is gonna have the edge in the long run if you put the variance factor into play. I bet he was a bad tipper because large tips would lower his edge.
Ughhh, sadly true of far too many "professional gamblers" namely poker for a "living" were at best mediocre when it came to gratuity. It's well within their right, but when they would want a sympathetic ear after big losses.... 🤬🤬🤬. Like, seriously, fuck out of here. Sympathy is bright
@@serendankitymcgee3594 From the professional's side of things we also have to remember that for every win you see there may be two losses you didn't see. The margins may be smaller than they seem for the small and mid-range guys. I for one like to put my eggs in many different baskets. The thought of having 800K riding on a single outcome with even odds is not a pleasant one for me.
When the casino bosses are in a documentary about how to beat them and win big, you know you're not going to find out how to beat them and win big. If you don't want to be bored to death just skip through to the parts where Don is speaking.
i think ive made this comment before but i cou;ldnt possibly be more imppressed with the way this intervierviewer does her job! knows the answer before she asks it! SMART SMART SMART1
+junkrat1 720p is hardly True HD. It's definitely a good transfer for 720p and not like much of what's on CZcams, but this definitely doesn't match 1080p or UltraHD 4k.
Basically all this gambler did is ask to change the rules a bit to lower the house edge. The house agreed and he ended up running hot and won. Thats pretty much it.
Playing perfect blackjack isn't complicated in the least. Pretty much anyone can do it. You aren't going to win over the long haul ONLY by playing perfectly. I don't buy for a moment that Johnson has won as much as he claims, and I'm quite certain he has suffered enormous losses that he doesn't share with anyone.
He didn't have an edge at all and played losing blackjack. However, he had negotiated a very good rebate deal which was worth more than what he lost. It therefore appeared that he had won. Great method but not what I'd call true advantage play...
Comps are only given to top players now. It's so hard these days to get a free room unless you lose at least several thousand at the tables in a weekend
With six decks in the shoe and approximately 44 hands per shoe, outside of being clairvoyant, there is no way possible he figured out what that % would be, not buying his story.
The loss rebate was the key. He was given a 20% loss rebate on anything over $500,000. So if he won $500,000 in a day he would keep it. If he lost $500,000 he would get a $100,000 rebate therefore only losing $400,000. It's not too hard to figure this out. In addition if dealers made a mistake he would get a free bet.
I've spent 52 years in Las Vegas and that BS about you only losing on average 20% is a flat out lie. Believe me when I tell you, the vast majority of people that gamble loses what they have. Not 20 fucking %.
I never lost money in a casino before. I've only been about 10 - 15 times and never took more than $200 but I never lost money... I think out of the ten times I went I'm only up around between $50 and $150... but I never lost ;D I think you have to be REALLY bad at gambling to go to a casino with $500 and lose 100% of it. My mother LOVES the slots which is the biggest sucker game in a casino and she doesn't even lose 100% when she goes.
@@zevykrainess8851 if i lost 50$ at black jack id quit and play something else.... Thars proly why i never lost. If i went down to 100$ id simply quit altogether. Besides, i only really play poker. Playing any other game in a casino more than a few times is just asking to lose. Theyre all long term losers its a sucker bet. You either get lucky right away or quit. Continuing to play is guaranteeing you to lose
I’m sure if you have the mind of a mathematician and are comfortable with risk you could sometimes make money gambling . (There are VERY few people with the right combination of abilities and personality traits to do this). I’ve been to Vegas once and hated it. Lots of desperate people losing their hard earned money, combined with surface glitz and smoke everywhere. Just depressing, IMO.
There's a big world in Vegas outside the strip. It's a large metropolitan area with lots of beautiful state parks surrounding it. There's lots to do in and around the area that do not involve gambling. Infact, you can make a vacation here and never go on the strip. Saying It's surface glitz and depressing is like making an opinion about NY City only based on your experience at Times Square.
This is a promotion by the Casino industry. Card counting hasn’t work for many years. The casinos will only give you half of a deck to count, or half of the 6 deck shoe ? There are no professional blackjack players today. So they run these promos to make folks believe it is still possible. The casinos will not allow card counting. The Casino profits 16 to 18% on each $1.00 bet on blackjack. Small casinos outside of Vegas May profit up to 20%. But If Trish Regan is involved I’m all in !👍🏼
Its a continuously shuffling shoe... Which randomly inserts the cards that were just dealt back into the shoe, as soon as the dealer inserts the dealt cards back into the machine, which happens every few hands. Also eliminates the need for shuffling, so cards are dealt non stop. But not all black jack dealers or casinos use a continuously shuffling machine. I think more than half of all BJ tables are still the regular 6 card shoes with automatic shuffling machine,.. Which are the ones the dealer puts all of the finished 6 card deck into a shuffling machine and a freshly shuffled 6 card deck is waiting for you. So also eliminates shuffling time. Last time I went, I was sitting at a table where the dealer was actually shuffling the 6 card deck with her hands... old school style, both of which are still susceptible to card counting. Also I noticed a lot of single deck and double deck bj as well....which is actually not very susceptible to card counting.
Gambling is pure poison. I lost millions to gambling and it ruined my life.
I've won a few 100k. It's called knowledge and discipline.
Are you done?
I think johnson is an actor for the big casinos. HEY EVERYBODY look at this guy he won millions! Come on in.
Exactly, anyone who wins a few thousand under normal rules get read a trespass card and escorted out for being an Advantage Player, this dude is sucking someone off or this is a publicity stunt. Any real skilled gambler wouldn't ever admit that they're an advantage player because they'd be banned all over town.
People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot.But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
I tried investing in Bitcoin mid this year but didn't due to the huge money I lost while playing casino, can someone give me a suggestion of a broker who can help me invest in bitcoin
I've been making a lot through bitcoin trading which has been the main source of my income
Wow, so surprised you mentioned and recommended Mr Stephen Briggs, I thought people don't know him, he's really good at what he does
The best investment one can do right now is investing on Cryptocurrency though stocks are good but ever since I swapped to bitcoin trading , I've seen so much difference
I have a similar testimony with 1.9 BTC, I already have 6.4Btc within 4 months since contacting him, isn't that amazing!!
Good for Don ! He won back the money many of us have lost
@@k.m.7351 different don johnson.
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He's a cardcounter if he's making profit playing black jack.
This is a very well done documentary (even 6 years later)!
Is it a realistic documentaire,or just a smart business mind fuck ?
It's only a matter of what you believe and don't believe...like the church...the digital world has taken over the old believers and new generation of believers , halleluja social media...and don't forget...All for the money.
In general one big mindfuck 🧐🙏.
@@FirstNameLastName-hahaha, it's apparent the video required too many brain cells for you. It was pretty self-explanatory.
Fist-bump to the reporter for doing her research. She got interviews with some high-profile casino folks. Segment was well done.
She was polished...wasn't she.
Trish regan? LOL The former anchor on FOX that was fired for saying outrageous things? She’s a racist and bigot
@@youngz13o why cause she isn’t a liberal communist?
@@meb6869ohh you poor child, are you just labeling things in a political sense so you can understand the world around you? Thats so sad
Whether you are a conservative or liberal, you can be racist… dumbass
Tired of hearing about that shit. Just live and quit worrying about what somebody said about you. Bunch of communist ash holes.
I've read book and quotes from damn '30s and captured communist files from searches and it's basic communist tactics to attack police and cry racism whenever possible. That's because they're counting on "useful idiots (look it up)" like you to do their bidding. Then when the net drops, you'll be shipped to same camp the rest go to.
I watched this a 100 times and every single time I enjoy it .
This is what I call reporting. Hats off to this lady.
props to this guy for methodically doing what everyone wishes they could do but can't.
Anyone can. Just gotta have a desire
Easy for you to say
I've lived in Reno for a long time. Fortunately, I never got into gambling. I have literally watched careers and marriages destroyed when people move here from out of state and didn't realize they have a gambling problem.
Hats off to Trish Regan and team for this superb documentary. Bravo.
He got 20 pts from the joint! That's more than enough to completely dominate a near 50/50 game. No doubt Don is an expert in undervalued horse plays - overlays. Hard to imaging he was a 108 lb jockey.
Thats not how rebates work. Rebates only are given on losses. You dont have a 20% edge just because you get a rebate. If you are losing at 1% pa the rebate merely means you are losing at 0.8% pa.
I used to be a limousine driver at a hotel /casino. I can tell you with 100% certainty that the really huge players (which are the only clientele I had) almost always lost. Sure they would occasionally have a night where they beat the casino but they would usually end up losing it back the next night or before they went home. Most of these people donated $10M+ by the end of the year to the casino so my picking them up on their comped ride on the casino's private jet really didn't do them any good.
The house always wins, otherwise why would they do it? It's so simple.
me to actually I am actually front lines of casino life. Deal to these "winners" and i have yet to see a true winner. only rare when they win progressives on table games.. but that"s just PR for the casinos!! but hey we could be wrong lol... HAVE FUN DONT SPEND WHAT YOU DONT HAVE
Did you ever meet Billy Walters?
So so true. No matter how much you win it will NEVER be enough. It never makes up for the previous losses. And if you do win big you WILL GIVE IT BACK as quickly as you won it.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 I didn't. I don"t usually deal blackjack in limits he would play, he is to serious or fancy for me. plus If he has a strategy to win like that its not betting on craps tables where its fun hehe
The casino uses this guy to let people think they can be the next don Johnson
Interesting theory. But it's just a theory.
Very well done and informative documentary. 👍
better video quality than the History Channel feed. Thanks
Great doco! Well done!
Well done to that gentleman, and I sincerely hope you enjoy what you so deservedly won.
Most sincerely
JF ( UK )
You'll never WIN
Thanks for these great posts!
Fantastic intriguing documentary.......
Don, More power to you. I'm impressed.
I've been a casino dealer for 15 years, less than 1% of gamblers win. Even the card counters lose. Unless you're filthy rich, stay away, you don't have a chance of winning in any casino.
He is the 1% I guess😂
Truth
Except for poker.. unless I'm a part of that 1% having played thousands of times
The percentage of winners are much higher than 1% but people (including myself) don’t walk away when up. Filthy rich means nothing either if the guy doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together and keeps losing into bankruptcy. Overall Casinos are the biggest waste of time for the players.
@@PositiveVibesVids don't play online it's infested with cheaters even the smallest of stakes. Bots, Trojans, mutli player, button bashing etc.
Who wouldn’t give Trish the Dish a few minutes of their time.
If she showed up at my table, I would lose all concentration.
Trish is delish
She's pretty...but only about a 7 in Vegas
Her eyes were flashing when talking to Din Johnson
"There's a natural collision of interest between the marketing side and the operations side." This can be said of just about any service-oriented business, really. Casinos, hotels, airlines, cruise lines, restaurants, nightclubs, theme parks...
Great job Don, I applaud you. Beat them the same way they beat us.
"You can love and hate Vegas at the same time." -- Don Johnson
I loved old Las Vegas. Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Sam Butera and the Witnesses. The Rat Pack, everything's a bargain from hotels to drinks. The Pit Bosses knew who you were most of the time and what drink you liked and made sure you had what you needed to stay, and keep playing. They made you feel like a very important person even when you weren't. Now, it's a carnival, a freak show.
You forgot the .99 breakfast buffet at Circus Circus ;-)
VEGAS IS NOTHING MORE THSN A SHIT SHOW FOR STUPID FOOLS !🤪🤡
this documentary has more cliffhangers than game of thrones
yep , Sylvester Stallone was even in the credits !
This guy is a boss. He got the best of some sharp casino execs. They really should’ve seen him coming.
They will now because he's teaching them all his secrets.
@@edhollingsworth2335 It sounds like he doesn't have secrets. His secret was to listen to what they offered him and then figure out that it gave him an edge over the house. Some of the things they offered him were: Dealer must stay on soft 17, a 20% rebate for all losses exceeding $500,000, and re-split aces.
I love this documentary. I've watched it several times. Don Johnson is such a likable guy.
I became a millionaire with gambling, but I was a billionaire before that......👎
Hello,
Can you send me a
Your email address. I have a very interesting business plans for you.
@@ottiiyke7291 are you an nigerian prince?
Am a Nigerian by birth
@@ottiiyke7291 then you are a scammer
Cheers for this, I've been looking for "copeland's magnolia mushroom recipe" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Aonyanaler Bewildering Asset - (search on google ) ? It is a smashing one of a kind guide for discovering how to making money with a proven roulette system without the headache. Ive heard some great things about it and my mate got amazing results with it.
If you have enough money to play $100k hands, then you don't need to gamble.
I lived in Vegas for a while in the 90s and I knew a professional gambler who made his living that way there.
There are 2 important things to remember - first play as little as possible, the longer you play the higher the probability of a loss and second aim for a small profit.
Depends on what you are playing and whether you have an advantage or not. If you do, then the more you play the larger the sample size of events becomes, and the smaller the percentage of standard deviation from your known average wining percent becomes. This gentleman had an advantage and so the more he applied that advantage the more he won. Most people don't have an advantage.I do like the idea of small profits. They add up and putting your eggs in many different baskets allows you to ride out the ups and downs.
I agree! I played for 15 min and made $15 bucks 2 days in a row! A very laughable profit,but a guy next to me lost 200...
@@kv1930 200 is nothing. I know people who loose 3-5k per visit.
OK. In a nutshell: Find a Casino that is struggling. Negotiate your way into improving the odds - literally get them to change the rules to your favor and get monetary discounts. Intimidate & confuse the dealer into breaking the silly rules you got them to agree to. Bet Big. Before all that, be a math /card-counting genius, but let them think you are a so-so player. Its just THAT easy. The only real secret here is negotiating terms and sandbagging. There, I saved you 46 minutes and change.
What's sandbaging?
@@captaincrook22 it means bluffing or holding back information. Pretend you are a so-so player until you’re ready to make the big kill, then play to your best ability.
@@mattkaustickomments thanks for explaininng.
DJ's big smile says it all!
With decades of dealing ,playing experience ,found information mostly spot on but when he talks about beating the dealers because they might be nervous and make a mistake a red flag is raised,not that the dealer is infallible but at high stakes there is probably a minimum of 5 eyes watching every hand,the dealer a pit boss and the one in the sky.
True but he negotiated that a dealer mistake resulted in a free bet for that hand. That's another edge.
The reporter and big Don got it on that night..!!
bIG DON JOHNSON.
money buys cheap pussy
NO WAY.
This chick is "pro athlete hot" NOT "50 year old gambler hot."
@@jaysantos5941 You forget how susceptible most females are to money flashed before their eyes…
I was thinking the same thing
Blackjack is just one such game that people can play professionally. I would love to see a documentary that covers a number of them. Of course, some cannot be played "professionally" due to the house edge that cannot be bypassed.
As far as I know, Blackjack and a handful of video poker games are the only games that can be beaten by skill, on any kind of consistent basis, but, even if the player can gain an advantage, the games still have a good bit of chance in them. I mean, as a professional Blackjack player you can literally do everything right and still lose big, it's simply a matter of how the cards come out of the shoe/off the deck.
@@mydogskips2 Correct, most casinos "group" the cards, which is another reason it is so difficult to beat. In the long run though, the true pros do come out on top. It is just exceedingly difficult to keep both counts with all of the distractions that occur inside of a casino. Personally, I do the best with horses and craps, but that's just me. Friends of mine do well with Baccarat.
I felt lucky coming out $40 ahead with a comped suite
I’m willing to bet the local casinos do more harm to local communities then they do Good. Most casinos are fully of the elderly or the poor, but groups can’t afford to lose money. One of my friends uncles would lose all his money in the first week of the month, and the rely on handouts or food stamps to survive.
Watch the first 5mins and the last 10mins. You'll thank me after.
+H erm lol!
+H erm Thank You
Shawnee
+H erm just finish watching,thank you :)
+H rem literally! the whole middle of it was just all repetitive!
Problem with working Wall Street is if you push the wrong buttons you have to deal with the IRS.
Great job Donnie. Love to see that American want to and drive,men like Don have the same DNA that settled the wildlands of the West and made our country grow. great preparation and planning and unbelievable nerves to be able to gamble? That kind of money
He’s one of the best card counters in America!
My first thought. All that other patter he came out with is just smoke and mirrors. If he really wins it's because he counts cards.
The only way that works is if you up your bets when you have the advantage. They look for that. They would have stopped him playing. He gained his advantage by negotiating the 20% rebate for losses over $500,000. Also they gave him $50,000 in free chips every day he played. But where he really got them was every time the dealer made an error, he would get a free bet. 3 or 4 mistakes a day can make a big difference in the long run.
About five minutes of content stretched paper thin over 45mins.
Magic!
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Dr Tune what's bad is the very interesting five minutes is spread out so you have to watch the whole thing.
Dr Tune ñ
I dealt to him!!! What a DICK!!
Surely his good luck charm is his All Blacks jumper!
A Wynn propaganda-promo-piece framed as a 20/20 type news story on a gambler. Sadly, only the last 10 minutes is really worth watching.
It did happen.
Exactly, what a worthless documentary. Every time they go into the commercials 'You want to know how he beat the house? See it next!', and then you watch 20 minutes, nothing happens. The advantage he has is a load of bull too btw, he got lucky and he just had shitty dealers. If he were to play normal without those bad dealers it would have been a gamble still.
His advantage is that he negotiates special blackjack rules that give him a positive expected value (EV). Ordinary players cannot play under those special rules. He also negotiates cash rebates based on the amount and duration of his play. He gets the rebates regardless of whether he wins or loses.
UltimateBargains so hes a highly payed house player to lure in other high stakes gamblers
IllPropaganda . Saved me 50 minutes. Thank you!
I work at a casino, we often get asked if we get 'card counters' at our tables. Yes, but it doesn't give them the advantage they think - if you play perfectly, the house still has a slight edge. Don Johnson negotiated special 'high roller' conditions that ordinary punters would never have got, and cleverly took advantage of them to win big. People have this expectation that counting cards is a rare ability that guarantees you huge wins and Kate Bosworth as your girlfriend.
All I can really suggest is that you only play roulette on single 0 tables, and blackjack paying 3 to 2 odds.
😂😂😂. Card counting works. Trust me.
@@majorleagueblackjack27 that's why you live in your uncle's basement
Good advice.
@@khunopie9159 not true at all 😂 I'm on the road full time. It's not easy but it's worth it. Because sleeping in my uncles basement delivering pizza wasn't saving me any money I can tell you that much!
Your correct about Single 0 being better than 0 0. And only playing 3 to 2 odds on BJ. But casinos destroy Roulette players because player loses 35 of 36 plays ? Almost every Roulette player bust out, taps out, leaves with his pockets inside out. But I could be wrong?
I personally like and enjoy her passion for journalism.
She was fired from Fox News for spreading Covid-19 disinformation. She's a clown.
@@guadalahonky4002 Funny how much "misinformation" has turned out to be factual after all.
@@kurtkensson2059 No, meathead. The exact opposite is true. Unless you are PRO drinking your own urine and eating horse heart dewormer paste, instead of receiving a vaccination. Just admit it already, mumblefuck you took a civics class in your life, did you.
Definitely need to See Mandy Patinkin play this guy in the movie!
Trish is looking like an absolute snack in that white dress.
Interesting and enjoyable program.
The last time I went to Vegas, my parents were still living and wanted my wife and I to join them. The town was packed with people. My wife and I aren't big gamblers, so we'd spend the days strolling down the strip and checking out the architecture. Understandably, people kept bumping into us. But for three days, not one of those people said. "Excuse me." I don't know if that town brings out the rudeness in people or just attracts rude people, but I never want to go back.
I used to love Vegas in the 50s and 60s, when the mob ran it. It was small, slow-paced, and everyone treated you like a king. If you were going to a dinner show that evening, you'd visit the Maitre d' that day, slip him $10, and you'd get a great table close to the performers. Now you buy a ticket in a booth and you're just another chump. Vegas is full of money, but devoid of class.
In general people now are more rude. 30 years ago I was gambling for 1st time,I was nervous and by mistake hit hard 17. My buddy told the pit boss...the guy laughed and let me play the hand over.....different world today!
reminds me of miami. ive been there 3 times total of about 1 1/2 years. i never heard the words 'thank you' after buying someting 1 time
I could watch Trish R all day long.
Damn this reporter got fuckin nice body and shape man
The casinos don't sit back and let you take that kind of money. They will refuse to let you play light years before taking $10 million.
Exactly, anyone who wins a few thousand under normal rules get read a trespass card and escorted out for being an Advantage Player, this dude is sucking someone off or this is a publicity stunt. Any real skilled gambler wouldn't ever admit that they're an advantage player because they'd be banned all over town.
@@hendo337 he's already banned. The whales gamble in private rooms... So you won't see a guy sitting next to you playing $100k per hand. I'm sure the casinos Make all sorts of accommodations to high rollers. Maybe not to the extent shared in this documentary... But they still make concessions.
Steve Wynn is the man is all I can say. He did it bigger than any of them. He gets the Gold
Gambling is a terrible devil! Most people don't even know the odds they are betting against. This guy I work with said he won $8000.00 but I talked with his wife and she said he spent $16,000.00 to win that money, so, he was $8000.00 in the hole or a loss.
Very good documentary.
I used to deal blackjack and in most cases VIP's if they argue a misdealt hand they would win the hand or at the very least have their hand pushed back. Regular Joe's usually get the short end of the stick. As Don mentioned a dealer dealing to a guy like this is a high pressure situation. Mistakes will happen and a fold signal can be misinterpreted as a hit. If he could negotiate splitting of AA and also re-splitting etc this is a big edge for the player. Add in 50k free money to start and discounts if you lose. Free food and drinks and Hotel rooms etc of course he is gonna have the edge in the long run if you put the variance factor into play. I bet he was a bad tipper because large tips would lower his edge.
Ughhh, sadly true of far too many "professional gamblers" namely poker for a "living" were at best mediocre when it came to gratuity.
It's well within their right, but when they would want a sympathetic ear after big losses.... 🤬🤬🤬. Like, seriously, fuck out of here. Sympathy is bright
@@serendankitymcgee3594 From the professional's side of things we also have to remember that for every win you see there may be two losses you didn't see. The margins may be smaller than they seem for the small and mid-range guys. I for one like to put my eggs in many different baskets. The thought of having 800K riding on a single outcome with even odds is not a pleasant one for me.
I bet he was big tipper
Gorgeous reporter🥰
When the casino bosses are in a documentary about how to beat them and win big, you know you're not going to find out how to beat them and win big. If you don't want to be bored to death just skip through to the parts where Don is speaking.
This video was great! Watch the entire thing
Trish melts me
real question is how many years of chain smoking does it take to get steves voice
i think ive made this comment before but i cou;ldnt possibly be more imppressed with the way this intervierviewer does her job! knows the answer before she asks it! SMART SMART SMART1
the quality on this video is fucking amazing. True HD
+junkrat1 720p is hardly True HD. It's definitely a good transfer for 720p and not like much of what's on CZcams, but this definitely doesn't match 1080p or UltraHD 4k.
abigguitar i can upload a video in 1080p and it wont look like that, thats saying something.
using pornstars to distract the dealer... what a hero LOL
That's some mossad shit right there
I can't fail! Vegas here I come!
Don wearing an All Black jumper!
Excellent video
Well Trish Regan has my vote for the most gorgeous eyes I've ever seen
One saying is true for a Las Vegas Gambler......"I SHALL RETURN"...✍🏿
It all goes back to the basics: exploit vulnerabilities and negotiation to improve the odds !
It will be great to go back to the business at hand.
He should do a movie!
Basically all this gambler did is ask to change the rules a bit to lower the house edge. The house agreed and he ended up running hot and won. Thats pretty much it.
Thanks for the summary I'm probably not going to watch the whole thing
Amazing video
Trish Reagan wow what a woman! The only reason why I watched this episode! Go DJ kick ass on vegas hope you are!!
Playing perfect blackjack isn't complicated in the least. Pretty much anyone can do it. You aren't going to win over the long haul ONLY by playing perfectly. I don't buy for a moment that Johnson has won as much as he claims, and I'm quite certain he has suffered enormous losses that he doesn't share with anyone.
You're also not going to lose very much over the long haul unless you keep upping your bets
" And you'll find out how he does it.....next " 25 minutes later....." And you'll find out how he does it next " lol
Incredible, lol.
Great interview.
He is obviously a card counter and he plays perfect basic strategy. Having a huge bankroll and negotiated perks, doesn't hurt.
No, I don’t think so, If he was they would have backed him off.
Why is the reporter so attractive lol
Because she looks like Natalie Dormer
Simp
From what I've read and seen from other professional gamblers, this is a lonely and empty life.
It is what you make it.
what channel or news program covers this?
he has a great Voice via voice over and he sounds just like a sports announcer I can't recall his name right now
Bob Uecker with a little Harry Carry
Like Einstein said, "Learn the rules of the game then play better than everyone else"
He didn't have an edge at all and played losing blackjack. However, he had negotiated a very good rebate deal which was worth more than what he lost. It therefore appeared that he had won. Great method but not what I'd call true advantage play...
lol.
you don't know what the hell you're talking about
An All Blacks jersey on? He certainly knows quality. Oh yeah! You da man!
love the all black jersey
Comps are only given to top players now. It's so hard these days to get a free room unless you lose at least several thousand at the tables in a weekend
With six decks in the shoe and approximately 44 hands per shoe, outside of being clairvoyant, there is no way possible he figured out what that % would be, not buying his story.
WHEN FAKE IS THE NEW REAL ! 🧐🤔
The loss rebate was the key. He was given a 20% loss rebate on anything over $500,000. So if he won $500,000 in a day he would keep it. If he lost $500,000 he would get a $100,000 rebate therefore only losing $400,000. It's not too hard to figure this out. In addition if dealers made a mistake he would get a free bet.
I've spent 52 years in Las Vegas and that BS about you only losing on average 20% is a flat out lie. Believe me when I tell you, the vast majority of people that gamble loses what they have. Not 20 fucking %.
I agree with your statement.
I never lost money in a casino before. I've only been about 10 - 15 times and never took more than $200 but I never lost money... I think out of the ten times I went I'm only up around between $50 and $150... but I never lost ;D
I think you have to be REALLY bad at gambling to go to a casino with $500 and lose 100% of it. My mother LOVES the slots which is the biggest sucker game in a casino and she doesn't even lose 100% when she goes.
@@upplsuckimcool16 dude it depends on the day I can lose 500 dollars at blackjack because cards suck or I can bring it up to 20k
@@zevykrainess8851 if i lost 50$ at black jack id quit and play something else.... Thars proly why i never lost. If i went down to 100$ id simply quit altogether.
Besides, i only really play poker. Playing any other game in a casino more than a few times is just asking to lose. Theyre all long term losers its a sucker bet.
You either get lucky right away or quit. Continuing to play is guaranteeing you to lose
Did Vegas bounce back yet? And Resorts World doesn’t look nothing like the image on this video 👀
I said all that to say, I LOVE VEGAS 🎲
I went in September.
It was a GREAT experience!
Make sure to bring your vaccination card tho...
No more mask mandate in Nevada. The casinos seem to be doing well from what I’ve seen in the last month.
@@marcusdarden1535 vax card for what
@@tomf5823 if you want to go to a show.
I wasn't allowed to see Ludacris because I didn't have mine on me.
Came back Saturday. It's definitely awake again
I’m sure if you have the mind of a mathematician and are comfortable with risk you could sometimes make money gambling . (There are VERY few people with the right combination of abilities and personality traits to do this).
I’ve been to Vegas once and hated it. Lots of desperate people losing their hard earned money, combined with surface glitz and smoke everywhere. Just depressing, IMO.
There's a big world in Vegas outside the strip. It's a large metropolitan area with lots of beautiful state parks surrounding it. There's lots to do in and around the area that do not involve gambling. Infact, you can make a vacation here and never go on the strip. Saying It's surface glitz and depressing is like making an opinion about NY City only based on your experience at Times Square.
This is a promotion by the Casino industry. Card counting hasn’t work for many years. The casinos will only give you half of a deck to count, or half of the 6 deck shoe ?
There are no professional blackjack players today. So they run these promos to make folks believe it is still possible. The casinos will not allow card counting. The
Casino profits 16 to 18% on each $1.00 bet on blackjack. Small casinos outside of Vegas May profit up to 20%. But If Trish Regan is involved I’m all in !👍🏼
She is something else. Wow!
Its a continuously shuffling shoe... Which randomly inserts the cards that were just dealt back into the shoe, as soon as the dealer inserts the dealt cards back into the machine, which happens every few hands. Also eliminates the need for shuffling, so cards are dealt non stop.
But not all black jack dealers or casinos use a continuously shuffling machine. I think more than half of all BJ tables are still the regular 6 card shoes with automatic shuffling machine,.. Which are the ones the dealer puts all of the finished 6 card deck into a shuffling machine and a freshly shuffled 6 card deck is waiting for you. So also eliminates shuffling time. Last time I went, I was sitting at a table where the dealer was actually shuffling the 6 card deck with her hands... old school style, both of which are still susceptible to card counting.
Also I noticed a lot of single deck and double deck bj as well....which is actually not very susceptible to card counting.
loved don johnson in Miami vice
Gary LOVEMAN... what a voice