Also Peter Tomarken and Rod Roddy

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.

And they would've broke his legs. Lol.

Ronald H Or banned him for life.

They had some unaired footage on the Press your Luck scandal, the crowd actually gave him a standing ovation when he hit $100,000.

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...

No he was in his 20s

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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Ever heard of chance? It's kind of, like, uh, I don't know, THE CONCEPT OF THIS GAME!!!!!

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.