I dare anybody to find a more loathsome documentary than this

the new breed of gamblers - from the 90s

My friend could never really quite explain to me what it means when you call someone a douche bag. He showed me this video and said watch Paul Baker and by the end of this video you know exactly what it means. It's so very clear now...thanks friend.

I remember watching this as a kid before going to Vegas for the first time with my family in 2004 when i was like 9 lol

I was a high roller for many years and would gamble hundreds of thousands a day with a full time host, comp penthouse suites, hookers and cocaine. I now live underground in a lasvegas storm sewer.

I love seeing Vegas hotel room interiors of the late '90s and early 2000s. So many of the themed resorts have lost their theming over time; curious to see what the Venetian suite shown looks like today.

" i don't know her, she is just here for the cabana" lol

I remember when the Travel Channel actually aired great specials like this.

Man this documentary brings back memories of my childhood watching Discovery & Travel channel

The guy named Paul Baker- the "Internet Executive" actually died in 2009 at the age of 45 not sure what was the cause of his death but for those that were curious he was one of the early guys in at AOL. / The guy named Denny Mason - "retired businessman" passed away in 2014 at the age of 55! Both died fairly young tbh..

I was in Vegas last week, and my dads friend is considered a high roller. It's crazy how many people are at your service when you're considered a high roller. If you have the seven star level you'll literally be treated like royalty. This video is not lying!

I don't know why some people dislike such an amazing documentary like this. It is really shocking that 1/3 of the people push the button of dislike. This is a great documentary and I really appreciate the way how they have managed to shoot it.

Some of theses guys are the Definition of Doushebaggery at it finest.

Scott van Pelt....Even if I didn't gamble, they would still cater to me....LMFAO!!!!!!

2020 - Dennis Rodman net worth is under 500k however he owes about 860k in back child and spousal support, and estimated 350k in back tax payments. So he got half a mill but he owes over a mill. Consider him $-500k in debt. Thanks Hard Rock Casino. Good job 👏👌👌👌👏

“People don’t sleep here. They stay awake for three days and snort three mountains of cocai-wait, what? I can’t say that? Well, uh, well people love it here.”

11:04 That's the great thing about Vegas. Whale high roller, or skipped your rent to buy your ticket on Spirit Airlines, nobody sleeps in Vegas. There's just something in the air that keeps you happy and going.

Don't these high rollers ever get the feeling that they are being fattened up for the kill?

Part of me is jealous that I'm not rich enough to experience this. Another part of me realizes that if I was that rich I wouldn't be wasting it in this fashion. Nice to fantasize about but simply not something I would actually do. I went to Romania once. I was able to live like a king. It was kind of cool the first day. However, I quickly started feeling bad about being waited on like I was better than everyone else. I'm not. I just was blessed to be born in America and have more money in comparison to most in Romania. Btw, Romanians make some kick ass soup. :)

"the big screen TV" lol riiiigghht

How much do you want to bet half the people interviewed at the Hard Rock are now broke and working at Mc Donalds?

A Chinese saying; If you want to revenge a person, teach him gambling

lol. SVP is in this. Hell ya he must have been fun asf to chill with back in the day

Reminds of a "Twilight Zone" episode when a thief is shot dead and finds himself in a casino winning everything in sight and suddenly realizes it's not heaven (like he always imagined it be), but hell.

The real reason casinos are afraid of hit and run gamblers, is those players are more likely to be advantage players.

Dam I never knew that high rollers we're so boring.thank GOD I'm broke.poor people are a lot more outgoing.

I hear Mandalay Bay has a "killer" hotel!

Mr.Adelson he 's got big baits for ones who want to have fun! High rollers smile beautifully even few hairs felt out their balls,You COOL! keep coming kids..

This is so old that petrol had 70 cents per gallon.

I lost $50,000 on a hand yesterday and it didn’t make a dent in my bank account. Unfortunately, I woke up.

This has the voice of the guy on the job safety videos.

I Miss The Good Ol Days People

10:17 old dude is like just gimme my drink

PLEASE CAN WE GET A MODERN VERSION??

I love how they think they are getting shit for free lmao. They have paid for those perks 10x over.

its now 2023 ironically paul baker from aol the internet executive passed away in dec 26 2009. makes you wonder life is short. you cant bring money to heaven or hell. enjoy every moment w/ fam n friends everyone!

Saw this as a kid back in the early 200's My biggest catch in Vegas was a male yeast infection from some random bride's maid I met for a hook up.

Things I took from this; 1) Rich athletes are black. 2) 'Players' are more important than anyone else in the world in the casino, everyone else may as well be dead. 3) If you are going to be gambling, you may as well be a 'high roller'. 4) Gambling is good, if you are losing just change the game, or failing that just have few more drinks and sleep it off, totally harmless. 5) As long as there is great food and drinks, everybody in a Casino is having fun. 6) The narrator sounds like he is selling how good this is to me. 7) Everyone interviewed in this whole production is totally fine with gambling, even happy about it, weather working in the casino or not. 8) Nothing at all is said bad about anything at all from start to finish. 9) The amount of shit that has nothing to do with gambling is overwhelming.

You know your ballin when you got a big ass tv like that in your movie room hehehehe

8:58 this man predicted the future. Poor Hard Rock

Sad the Hard Rock is no more. Always wanted to see it, and stay there.

Spent 20 years in Vegas and actually partied with Dennis Rodman at the Rio. This video is wayyyyy old. This is more a late 90's early 2000s period; not the current decade.

Nice upload,vegas is so lively...

Back when the Discovery Channel was interesting.

Can wE geT a newer episode one when rodman wasn't on the spurs!!! 😂😂

This Discovery channel documentary feels like it was made in the mid-late ‘90’s. The Hard Rock Casino was the hot place to be…. Rodman’s hair isn’t multi-rainbow colored (wore the rainbow 🌈 dyed hair 1999 and after, the references to “these new young DOT COM whipper snappers”).

I miss these specials on the Travel Channel

I bet all these guys are broke today, including Rodman!

Give me the old time suites in the Strip Casinos. The dark wood and gold accents. Top level!! I personally would not go to Hard Rock. Just me!!

ive got stocks in star city. only $5 (red chip) but im happy, i got to see greg matthews once and he is a massive unit

"Younger, trendier, flashier"- HEY! That's me.

The Casinos and the girls know how to extract the money. Rich athletes who are retired get taken down to size pretty quick. Rodman is a perfect example. Just a few years ago he had enough money for the average person to retire on. Now his networth is negative. He owes more than he has.

RIP Paul Baker. He only made it to 45.

At 40:45 an advertisement appears on the televisions in the background for a fight that was to take place on June 23rd 2001 between Oscar De La Hoya and Javier Castillejo. So this documentary was probably filmed within a few months of that date.

32:00 "We import WOKs at $15,000 each from Hong Kong." That. my friends, is total, steaming, flat-earth bullshit. A cast iron skillet of the correct size doesn't cost $15,000. Any manager who justifies it saying "It's authentic" would be fired on the spot. There isn't a palate on earth that can differentiate between a so-called Hong Kong Wok, and something made domestically. It boils down to the chef.

Imagine all the people pissing in the Hard Rock Pool? 😂😂😂

dennis rodman= negative 1 million net worth LOL

the room i had at the cosmo puts that "high rollers" suite to shame lol

“VH1 Presents: Where are they now?”

If you want to gamble, gamble but it perplexes me that all the shows are made about something which is an addiction like it's something glamorous and something to aspire to. They should make shows about the glamour of other addictions like alcoholism too. Woohoo!

I would pay more to golf with Charles Barkley than Tiger Woods ANYDAY simply so I can die laughing.

They are all friendly and outgoing because you HAVE money !! Lol

I’ve watched this way to many times..

I'd like enough money to put on a new pair of socks every morning.

27:35 Take my word for it, Rodman... you were never ANYWHERE fucking near the top 5 whales in the world. Especially now that you're broke.

Hello there, it is good to see the high rollers some day 🤠 I will stop by Vegas I love to play poker

THKS TONY ,PRAY YOU DOING BETTER ,GOOD MSSG

This show should be named " when America's new rich and NO class goes to Las Vegas".

This was a fun documentary to watch! I’ll never be a high roller, I’m too disciplined of a player, I break even or make a bit of money when I gamble so I’m worthless to the Vegas casinos, but for one weekend it would be fun to live the high roller lifestyle

That box TV is badass

I would leave if Dennis Rodman was there.

45 minute infomercial about Las Vegas

Let me get this straight . High rollers were being REWARDED by riding in those purple SUVs , not PUNISHED ?

Not sure what is more mind blowing. High rollers that aren't Chinese or the fact that hard rock was a premier property at one point.

The beautiful people the beautiful people....it’s all relative to the size of their steeple!

43:54 Michael Jordan got a rush out of splitting 3s playing blackjack too

And now Dennis Rodman is broke

That stack of chips of the hi roller on craps table as odd bet was huge, wonder what the actual bet on pass line was.

This was from late 2000 or 2001 since the palms was not open til november 15, 2001

Very tragic. A little internet research showed he died in 2009. No mention of a causative disease or accident, I assumed he took his own life given the underlying AOL failure. I may be mistaken...if so i sincerely apologize.

This must have come out in the late 2000's , the Hard Rock is hardly the "hot hang out spot" here in town lol. Back in like 2008 it was the place to be.

Fun fact…. Everyone seen in this video are now in their 60s and 70s (at least)

end of the day, the house never lose

Life is much better in the Philippines. I have whole resorts here to myself, time and time again. No waiting for cabanas here, I get the whole beach to myself. And the women are cuter, 25-30 years younger and willing to do anything to make me happy...And I'm not a high roller...

The whale from Australia won $24 million in one session of black jack. It was at the MGM and cost at least one guy his job. He had to pull the trigger on allowing the whale to bet above the table limit and it did not work out well for the Casino.

“They’ll have to give them what they want”..cuts to a zooming close-up of 2 butts jiggling… 🤭

Yeah the girls sure love you...

steve cyr went from selling cars to real estate to casino reeler

Love some of the people telling how you are paying for everything with what you lose. These are people that have nothing and never will. You have to realise to some people dropping 100K over a weekend mean nothing to some people. Vegas use to be for people that had a lot of money. You didn't see people out in vegas with a limit of $50 a day to spend. Walking around with their pants hanging down to their ankles with flip flops on.

Roberto - u r 🔥

Wow, I wonder what it would have been like to grow up where nobody would be looking at their phone during conversations.

hour long commercial for the hard rock casino.

That dude trashtalking / actually thinking about hitting an 18 is the reason why you lose at the tables hhah😂

"At the HardRock casino, their definition of luxury involves different kinds of pearl necklaces"....... @22:50

The 90s lol drink every time he says "hip". The Hard rock did market research and heard that back then saying Hip was hip.

I had to immediately go see what Scott Van Pelts net worth was after seeing him there. Pretty solid but damn, not someone who I thought would be dropping enough money to get the preferred treatment.

12:13 a gold leafed lobster served on fine China. Bruh, its a standard restaurant serving platter

Paul Baker, the young white dude, clearly prefers the company of brown shuga ! All comp’d !

Cant believe I've been in this business for 25 years. LOL!!!!

they basically payed for girls to say hey back to them 😂😂 they aren't even loved now 😂