Press Your Luck - Michael Larson Episode 2
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- čas přidán 3. 11. 2012
- Credit goes to TVLubber, who uploaded the original video.
This is Episode 2 of Michael Larson's appearance on Press Your Luck. This was aired June 11, 1984. The difference between this video and the original video that TVLubber uploaded is that some brief commercial clips were removed. - Zábava
The contestants for this game.
Ed Long (DC) Hometown: Glendale (La Crescenta Valley), CA
Michael Larson (Lebanon, OH)
Janie (San Bernardino, CA)
Respect to Ed as he seemed legitimately happy for Micheal’s success.
RIP Michael Larson
Also Peter Tomarken and Rod Roddy
hahahaha waiting forever for his spin, and instantly hits a whammy XD
5:26 the host threatens him XD
And to think cause some guy in a raid told me about this I'm now watching it decades laters
he didn't cheat the system but if you want to see a contestant really tear it up and make the game fun, check out Gene Snyder. he was highly regarded as Peter Tomarken's favorite contestant.
9:42 - Look carefully at Michael Larson's last two spins (at that point) plus Ed's "Whammy" spin following; the slides appear to be changing at random in time with the bouncing light instead of at the same time with each other.
My only guess is the producers tried a last-ditch attempt to throw Larson off his game. (Needless to say, the board stabilised once Ed was into his second spin.)
Michael Larson exposed the business brilliantly and beat the season. CBS behind the scenes were happy that he cracked the code.
he outsmarted the system without breaking the rules....good for him
The producers were looking at each other: "He broke our game!" If this was black jack they would have kicked him out of the casino.
And they would've broke his legs. Lol.
Ronald H Or banned him for life.
He keeps hiting the same 2 squares.
I can just hear everyone in the control room screaming at each other.
I wonder how many people got fired for this.
I blew off my high school graduation on this 99-degree day.
Mr. Larson made enough money to buy a fleet of ice cream trucks!
Between seeing it on Buzzr and seeing this game here, I have finally seen the Larson episodes as they were originally broadcast. I never knew about these eps because after the original broadcasts, they weren't allowed for syndication, and even now are only out for a few showings from time to time.
The funny thing about this episode is that Michael played so comically bad in the first round. But once the 2nd round hits, it looks like he made a deal with the devil. (Even as early as the questions for spins of the 2nd round.) 11:25-For one brief moment, and 2 spins, it looked like Ed had the Michael Larson touch. Janie looked like she was going to cry when she got that whammy. (Not so sure I blame her. To FINALLY get her chance to spin, and to have the whammy come up.)
I've watched this several times, but I got to say, I love the chatter between spins as well as the crowd egging Michael to keep spinning. And he did.
They had some unaired footage on the Press your Luck scandal, the crowd actually gave him a standing ovation when he hit $100,000.
Since Michael Larson kept pressing his luck, how are we going to get "The Price is Right" to run when Michael Larson went over $100,000?
Michael wanted to do a reunion Press Your Luck years later before his death but the network said no! Could have done it for fun or for charity lol
And this is why now its impossible to go without hitting a whammy. That way no one can beat the system like this again
Just wondering, did Peter Tomarken wear a toupee? I loved this show and I still get to see re-runs all the time.
No he was in his 20s
:54 A man who is going to be exhausted by the time this episode is over with........
And within two years after this, he lost all of the money....
He was actually quick to regain most of his cash in a large scam, and managed to evade the federal agents till his death. He truly was a God in con-artistry...
15:03
10:30
But he won anyway.that's why the game was called press your luck
9:51
I've wonder what he got his daughter when he went home
"Michael ... you have over $65,000; do you know what that means?" (Michael nods, then suddenly shakes his head) XD
I just don't get why they have to have that lady at the beginning... she's so aggravating
The producers were probably saying, "What the hell is going on?"
If you watch awhile, you can tell there are patterns. It seems pretty obvious. It's so "low tech" compared to these days. I guess no one else thought of this in the 80s.
Nolan Cain 6 not 5
Micheal did 😁
But if you're watching on TV, with no thought of watching again and again, and it's 1983-84, you're not giving it a second thought. Larson's win was it noticing _that_ there were patterns, that there were so relatively few, mastering them, _and_ getting on the show to do this.
You figure, VCR tech was only really massively in the public for a couple of years or so at that point, so the thought of someone recording Press Your Luck religiously, studying the tapes, and coming to Television City armed with the knowledge of the board was still not a consideration. Today, with the proliferation of the internet, and people able to take said information on the internet and break down said information, someone could even potentially arm themselves with the knowledge of the post-Larson patterns when they put up so many more patterns.
With the new Press Your Luck ABC is going to air (and the GSN version 15+ years before), they have the technology to easily randomize the patterns, so there’s no way anyone is pulling a Larson again. The payouts on the prime time version ABC will air will definitely be considerably more than $110k for many situations, but no one is taking to the board 40+ times and taking ABC and Fremantle for an ungodly sum of money.
was it legal for them to forbid him from comming again?
Yes
Technically no, since he never really cheated.
However, the winning limit that CBS set on all it's game shows was obviously reached (I think it was set at 50,000 at this point, and that was something that was set because of the Twenty-One scandal), so by rule, he was retired.
Nope he passed the 50,000 limit. Michael probably wanted to comeback but he might have got busted so he went all in big. Cant blame him.
Michael Larson used his cash winnings for taxes and real estate investments. However, he had other problems, such as getting in trouble with the law and getting involved in illegal schemes. As a result, he lost all of his winnings and decided to migrate to Florida, where he later died of throat cancer at the age of 49. Tomarken and his second wife, Kathleen, were killed in a plane crash, where he was the pilot, on the morning of March 13, 2006.
So sad. So sad.
He was part of a "radio contest" where a dollar with a certain serial number was worth $30,000. He had bags of one-dollar bills around the house and those were stolen. The thing is: It was one thing to break the bank, but he thought he could keep doing it.
KINDA!
“Go, I want a 100!” 9:59
+Mi Picasso : why
Oops
hes a biss
He died pretty much broke.
I heard it was because he had a lot of bills to pay
Then when 25 years later he was worried about why his wife was looking for a cereal number according to his documentary .if you found the right one on the dollar bills you could of wow 60thousend eventually he never got to find out if he did
Sorry for the 2y reply. I was brought to this video from another video that talked about him. He was doing a radio contest thing where if they match the serial number to their 1 dollar bill they win a ton of money. He withdrew his 90k in all 1 dollar bills and tried finding the number but never did. He put some of his cash away and before he could finish, his house was broken into- losing 50k in the process. After a while i suppose he had a series of bad luck which is probably why he died nearly broke.
3:14, 5:40, 6:03, 6:19, 6:44, 9:51, 13:49, 15:03
STOP!!!!
Stuart Price
*WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!*
*foghorn sound effect*
you: oh nooooo! *grasping your head with your hands with you leaning back*
*whammy dances across the screen from left to right like michael jackson by doing the moonwalk*
whammy: yeah! money! money! money! yeah, you want that money!
STOP
something new...This is why the producers tried to keep Michael ...the producers set this up but they didnt expect Michael to be able to do what he did which in poker would be being able to read the cards. But the producers planned this as you can tell when Ed said I neeed $5000 + one spin lets the board go around couple seconds then says stop....guess what...Ed gets his $5000 + one spin....DEAD GIVEAWAY this whole thing was set up but backfired on teh producers...
Let's not be idiots here. This was not set up ... it's well-known that Michael taped episodes and memorized the board patterns (which are admittedly very obvious). Then he got on the show and went on a winning spree. Really simple explanation.
No different than figuring out the patterns to the arcade games Donkey Kong and Pac-Man, is the arcade operator gonna kick me out of the video arcade for doing that? Once you figure them out you can run up the scoreboard, he didn''t cheat' he just simply mastered the game. oh, and BTW, he only whammied in order to cover his tracks in Round 1.
i thought the first round whammy was because he was genuinely nervous, and then picked the others up as he gained confidence.
tdarkhorse4
Ever heard of chance? It's kind of, like, uh, I don't know, THE CONCEPT OF THIS GAME!!!!!
he is dispicable and greedy
And yet, if you listen closely to the outro, he brings up, what seems to be again, that he didn't want to do it to Ed. He had at least somewhat of a heart for nice people.
According to the PYL documentary, when they met in the green room before the taping, Michael told Ed " I hope we don't have to play each other. "
He may be a bit greedy, but I still can't blame him. He has multiple wives and children. He needs to care for them. So I would think that you are just spiteful. Also at 12:00, when Ed gets his second whammy. Micheal reaches over and places his hand on Ed's shoulder. He cares for Ed. Then Janie, from the get go thought he was creepy. So Micheal never got to be nice or friendly to her. He was scared it would start something. Please take these facts into consideration.
It seemed as if he was looked at fondly for what he did on the show not so much who he was. Ed Long appeared to be very nice to him through out the show and even the document. Tomarken thinks only positively of him. Janie didnt and while his brother appeared on Whammy for him and appeared to have fun he didnt looks fondly of his brother.