But that 3 times

BRUH MY KZfaq AD WAS 5X longer than this one. LOL

I miss what I was never alive for to begin with Haha strange times

I did edit out the ads not connected to Buzzr so...

@@jordanbaker6242 ahhh ok that makes more sense😂 well appreciate u know making us watch an ad

Me

Me lol

Mee

Me 😂

Me

its sad what happened to him after, he really did deserve it

THANK YOU. They were vilifying him for simply *paying attention...* #BS

@kingofkings69ner k Had he not passed in 1999, he might have.

He exploited a flaw in the game to gain an unfair advantage over the other players so you could argue that he cheated.

*But he DID NOT CHEAT. If he did, they wouldn't have paid him!*

An unemployed asshole who lost his winnings in a Ponzi scheme is a national treausre?

Great points! I believe you are right, you can see where he relearns the timing in studio.

I wholeheartedly agree!

Love Brie Larson!

It was like speedrunning a game show live, blindfolded.

IceveinsProductions It’s a shame how Michael let all the money go to waste. You’d think he got the biggest break of his life, but all it did, was fuel his thirst to get rich quick. He lost all his winnings within two years, spending it on rogue investment and having half of it stolen in a home burglary. In the latter, he literally had $50,000 in single dollar bills, in his house to win a radio show jackpot, and since his winnings were no secret in his neighborhood, someone stealing his winnings was inevitable.

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

50? I'm almost 50 and I look like I could be his goddamn son.

Unemployed ice cream truck driver Wut

35? Jeez. He had a really hard paper round.

"Hopefully you won't OD on money, Michael" Oops

Rahfu definite oops upside your head. Pretty prophectic words.

a stopped clocked is right twice a day

Famous last words 😂

Rahfu he definitely wasn't wrong

Good one

42:26

That was the whammy who asked that. With the whammy at least getting 1 weak hit that did 10 damage.

The people that say he cheated are strange ones. I know these shows want Jo blow off the streets that is below average intelligence. They don't want anyone with a brain.

King Chubster the guys broke dumbass

@@agrxexate9271 r/wooooosh

He died of cancer dumbass

He died in 1999 from cancer

lol people can't tell this is a joke

Drewsen, right. Just like doing your schoolwork, as me father sez is the term.

Exactly...one can't really call it cheating...he was just very calculating

Well, technically, counting cards in blackjack isn’t cheating either. But it is still frowned upon because it’s playing the system for gain. Either way, it’s the older technology that did the game a disservice, so what’s done is done. Still, I’m pretty blown away about how committed he was to memorize those patterns!

Their show is not a scam though. It's not like the contestants have to pay to play (gamble), nor were they fixing anyone to ever lose either.

@@AnneIglesias If the system isn't good enough, that's not the players fault. Learn the system, and win big bucks :)

It is legit but he was essentially counting cards. There's a doc produced by Game Show Network over how he did it. It was totally legal but it exposed the system. After this ep they changed the cursor pattern and added a lot more projector patterns. Pretty much he figured out the pattern of both the cursors pattern and when a certain set on the projectors was going to come up on the board. When the show was revived on GSN as Whammy! in 2003, the second round, with updated technology, changed the board's spots at random times one by one, plus they actually had a rematch with Jaime, Ed, and Micheal's Brother on that show. Peter actually hosted the quiz portion of the show for that ep shortly before his death in a plane accident.

@@BLRNerd He put a lot of work in to this and did nothing illegal. Anyone could have done it if they put in the time. Nothing illegal here just stupidity for having the board constantly repeat the same pattern.

@@bostonblackie9503 If anything it’s their fault for being lazy with the parents if Michael wasn’t going to figure it out someone else would’ve.

@@BLRNerd Unless the rules of the establishment prohibit "counting cards," it's cool. Nothing wrong here. Quite the opposite, he actually did what the show wanted people to do: Watch it regularly!

At the time, the executives were too embarrassed by the incident to openly talk about what happened. It wasn't until 10 years later, that they briefly talked about it, albeit not in as much detail compared to the 2003 documentary. By the time 2003 came along, enough time had passed that CBS calmed down enough to openly talk about what happened during that famous incident.

I noticed that shit right off the bat.

My father was self aware of the fact that something was going on when he saw it. The people behind the scenes realized 8-9 spins into it, just before the first episode ended, that Michael Larson was onto something. It went from "How is he doing that, to OMG he's doing it: we're in BIG trouble!"

Was your father involved with the show? Or, was he just a viewer?

@@wesleyrichardson2841 So did I. I remarked to my husband that he was studying the board as it lit up, and stopped at the right time. My husband said it was coincidence. (Jan Griffiths).

Shakespeare would have had a field day with the tragedy of Michael Larson.

He sadly didn't get to because someone robbed him by taking all his money :(

Well, actually about half of it. The money he had already gone through, he redeposited into the bank. But there was still roughly $50K remaining in the house and that's what was stolen. The thief was never found. Even if the thief were found today, there would be no prosecution for the burglary because the statute of limitations has run out.

I still think his wife did it.

Robbie Rotten and he tried and blame his wife all on it

He crack the game .

But he's not cheating

He's not

He hit one on the first spin

Seems pretty challenging...but he had the patterns down after cracking the code.

Yep, this is literally card counting.

@@oz_jones Which is neither illegal nor a violation of the show rules.

@@TommygunNG yeah except casinos staff show you the way out the moment they catch you card counting.

@@deqinwu Because they have policies about refusing service to anyone they choose. For a game show to do something like that would have network Standards and Practices down on them, and lawyers worried about the contestant suing. Very different situations.

it wasn't a flaw in the system, they programmers were presumably didn't get paid enough so they set a repeating pattern that just looked random lol

PureExile, right. Like doin your schoolwork.

That guy really knows how to press his luck. Yes pun intended. June 10, 2019, 12:58pm

He could have at least played it off like he was shocked while he kept hitting the money... He celebrated before it even landed.... Real subtle

It would've been great if he could've hit the Add A One space, and then the Double Your Money + One Spin space. If he did that after he hit the Bahamas trip space, which was what knocked his score up to $110,237, Add A One would've put him at $1,110,237, to which Double Your Money + One Spin would've given him a grand total of $2,220,474.

@@tomdalfonzo9959 so now it is like 10 mil

😂

XD

Wth

Micheal here

@@larry2toes637 facts

She is a jerk. Watch the documentary. A real shallow person

I think he was deemed a con man because of his behaviour after he appeared on the show.

He later on created ponzi fraud and scammed 20000 people with total 3 mil dollars

He was a human incarnation of Mr.Krabs

Guys, who is disagreeing with you. Yes he didnt cheat. No one is disagreeing with you but its already been said 110237 times in this comment section alone

Guys, who is disagreeing with you. Yes he didnt cheat. No one is disagreeing with you but its already been said 110237 times in this comment section alone

The money was also worth a lot more do to inflation.

Same as 2019 after taxes

This was mid eighties? Wow, that set looks straight out of the seventies!

Ding Ding Ding! @Mystical 905 your the weiner... I mean winner! You have won the magic mirror that was personally used by snow white's evil step mother. Did you know professional writers have editors look over their work to correct any mistakes? Your use of Ellipsis is incorrect. Prospective? LOL! Don't you mean "perspective" and not PERspective? Watch your capitalization.

I'm 15 years old thinking about a $60,000 job

They actually became acquainted and talked before the show, during the auditions.

She thought she was creepy. She had stank queefs

​@@biruss What are "stank queefs" please?

Geminisixtyfour thx

STAP!!

HARDER

Mong Goose “BIG BUCKS BIG BUCKS STOP!”

Awww you stole my idea.

Taz Tazza did I steal it or did I think of it before you

Holy crap, not for that Michael, but for another.

Screw luck I got brake the system

Woooo! 🖐🖖👐👎🤚🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖👋

he bounces as he claps oml

Spongebob: Everybody do the *wooooooooo*

Zack Monsour knew*

Damn ur worse than the burglars

conspiracy theory?????

He KNEW all along, not new

Knew

Card Counting 2: No Whammy Boogaloo

@@oz_jones - As a friend of mine once said at a poker tournament, "Win if you can; lose if you must; but always, always cheat."

You don’t come from the infograthics show?

@@diamondcubey8464 - I'm not sure what you mean by that.

+Brandon Bennetzen Don't forget the IRS. They had their fair share of pitchforks and torches as well!

Xx_CheetohFingers_xX No. He was a scammer a con artist after he went broke he used he’s name to scam over $300,000

It was the wammy

That was after his 3 million dollar ponzi scheme

@Xx_CheetohFingers_xX I mean he's amazing until you realise that after his stunt here he scammed about 3 million away from average joes in a ponzi scheme. he became the money shark, if i may.

If he hugs the girl he'll catch a case

@@deltagaming444 nah this was at a time where girls were actual people

DK Broman no vise versa

Vin B gotta watch out for them fake accusations

His wifey won't like that.

He likely also memorized particularly the safest ones (I.e the ones where even if his timing was off he would still not loss as accepting more risky ones could blow it all, notice how the entire time he never got a single whammy. His risks were clearly calculated as he only intended on hitting 2 squares, some of these he mistimed and still didn't loss it all.

even tho half of his money was gone because he got burglarized

He died when he was 50, he wasn’t THAT young.

Some Random Gamer Dying at 50 is pretty young... Many people live healthily for 25 more years

And y’know, being chased by the government, and dying at 49.

I bet ya CBS Stole some of that, and at least he got to spend $50k which is $100k today, before he passed of cancer.

Michael was a Press Your Luck legend. He killed the board with a Whammy and biggest bucks and more one spin.

The only 3 Prizes on the board were: 5th spin-Trip to Kauai ($1,636) 13th spin-Sailboat ($1,015) 43rd spin (3rd passed spin)-Trip to Bahamas ($2,636)

IMO, it’s kinda fu@*ed up that he only hit $1000 on the home player spin. If I was unemployed, knew the patterns on a game show board, and was broke, I would have hit the max amount for a random person just to make their day. Just saying that I would like to pass along good karma.

Get a job

@@frankdiaz6214 - He was basing it on the square he wanted to hit, not the amount. He didnt know what amount would be in the square . *Michael aimed for those 2 squares because they never had Wammy's and also had a few of the higher cash amounts.*

De Boi How exactly?

Proceeds to lose one the next turn

Yes....Peter....I know that.

Alexander Edward Pytko a few more episodes used the old patterns, but you better believe Caruthers and CBS were extra diligent on who was getting the nod until substitute patterns were installed on the board.

Ironically I have memorized some of the 30 patterns they developed and use them in video game recreations whenever they come up XD

Alexander Edward Pytko, right! Me father even sez it's like doin your schoolwork. There4 2 the Xtreme Michael Larson avoided the Whammy.

Brandon Bennetzen that "hard cap" of $75,000 wasn't really that hard... I'll tell you why... In theory on the $25k Pyramid, they didn't count prizes against your total. So you could in theory win more than the "hard cap".

Well if one had enough time on his/her hands it's not unreasonable to think one could memorize all 32 patterns. I recognize a handful of them and I've never really paid a whole lot of attention to them but a few stand out to me. Even if that were the case, it'd be a matter of just waiting for the randomizer to flash a sequence you recognize.

And also rest in peace to Rod Roddy!

i thought the same thing when i heard that haha

That was a joke what she said

This recording is seemingly of a repeat - not the original airing in the 1980’s. By the looks of it, on a dedicated game show channel. So Adam Sandler was steady famous when that ad was made, but it was advertising an old show from before he was famous.

PYL took place in the state of California. Nobody was going to beat him up on suspicion of being gay/transgender. In fact, PYL had a "woke" episode to briefly highlight 2 women and their adopted child, which was very controversial in the mid 1980's. They never said the PYL winner was gay, but it was strongly implied.

He rocks it.

What are you special needs?

@@bigmeowmeowfan8002 Michael Larson was an ice cream man.

@@devoteeofmediocrity821 oh

Hi mr.president

@UnknownDarkDragon Oh my god thank you I thought it was real thanks for clarifying

UnknownDarkDragon I thought it was real too. That’s the real president, I mean look at his profile picture. That’s him

UnknownDarkDragon rats. I was gonna message him to give me 100k too. Lol xD. Hahaha 😂😀😔😂😂

I am a Supergirl fan. The version as presented in the DCAU (DC Animated Universe). In the comics, it was a costume by Linda Danvers.

She was angry because Michael took her moment away. Meanwhile, Ed's wife was very concerned for Michael's health. Especially since he was riding the wave and it could have ended badly at any time. However, it did not.

She has a name you know

@@bigmeowmeowfan8002 Thanks for that pointless replay...2 YEARS after I made the original comment.

DalekKaan101 your right my love is pointless

Here to reply something pointlessly

I'm pretty sure Janie managed to figure out what he was doing fairly early on in his rampage. If you pay attention to her, you can see that she starts to get really suspicious of him fairly early on. Notably when it FINALLY got to her turn, she also managed to hit two 5000 + One spin panels in a row. I think she figured out he was abusing patterns, but only managed to recognize the one with 5000 + one spin.

If he would say similar to that on stage, would he risk losing his money?

@@TokoWH abusing patterns? If they wanted the show to be more challenging the patterns should be more complex. You can see the patterns clear as a bell, he did't abuse anything. The point of the game is to know when to push the button and he knew better than the rest.

@@samd1405 Obviously, they didn't think that people would figure out the patters as well as Michael did.

The same thing that's going through it right now...ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FRICKINATOR DOLLARS!!!!

The direct competition PYL had in the 10:30am time slot at the time was "Sale of the Century" on NBC, but I'll bet there were at least a few people who changed the channel when they heard about what was happening here.

Alexander Gaebel 100th like

Well he wasn't winning due to luck but pure strat so take that as u will

@@darianbarber3763 He memorized the patterns (since the board wasn't randomized back then), but he could still have hit a whammy if his concentration momentarily lapsed. Also, to quote one article, "he'd learned how to trigger only plunger-hitting patterns nailing a cash prize and a free spin. . . The only way to break this loop would be for Larsen to abandon any pretext of surefire pattern matching. He would literally have to Press His Luck like a regular contestant, plunging the Big Board onto a non-winning square, a non free-spinning square, and one possibly yielding a Whammy capable of draining him of every penny. When he pushed the plunger the last and final time-Michael Larsen won a trip to the Bahamas."

He did say to Ed in the casting session "I really hope we don't have to play each other," which struck Ed as odd.

YouCantHoldOnTooLong Except for when he was a fugitive from the FBI, IRS and SEC for being part of an illegal gambling scheme

@@danem2215 That happens sometimes to the best of us though

"COM'ON DUTCH"

Even Tomarken until his death respected what he did on that episode and the way he went about it especially knowing that he memorized 5 patterns with Peter in Michael's face, on TV and in front of a crowd. Personal life aside, he was a game show legend and would have been a legend if he didn't f up his life.

@@danem2215 Yeah I think it's fair to say that even though he didn't really cheat (he simply realized the board wasn't actually randomized and planned accordingly), he seemed like the sort of guy who was always looking for an easy way to get money and wasn't content with the wealth he had just acquired.

HH Productions yes hahahah

Me Lol

Yep

Same here !!! Awesome!

I watched this on the infographics yesterday and today it's in my recommended lol

LMAO

I was trying to think of who Janie reminded me of, and that's exactly it!

Skinny Umbridge!

That chicken deserve to lose

LMAOOOO

Happened to me as well

Same

Samee

Me too

@@hibuddy2768 yeah

And CBS tried to used that proof of Michael being a cheater and not give him his winning?

He memorized the board system.

I can see why ABC added the bonus game to see if anyone can be like Michael Larson. May him, Peter Tomarken and Rod Roddy all Rest in Peace! Press Your Luck is back and is continuing their legacy!

Why TF you dated your comment

Ed Long: Hits a whammy. Michael Larson: Starts belly laughing uncontrollably.

Richard Cleveland no kidding huh. I'm 36 and he looks wayyy older than me

He looks closer to 50 here

35??? wtf!! I always thought he was 50 or over. I'm 33 and I can still pass for 23 people tell me lol

I'm 46, and I look a damn good 10-15 years younger than he does. Missing left eye, bumps, bruises, almost wearing an ass-whoopin', never was much in the looks department. I have no idea what the hell happened to him, but DAMN..!

I recently turned 47, and he still looks older than I do.

NERD!

What a dork. Wasted your time figuring out the pattern and it's not even correct. LOL

Hey uh, Mister? Please ignore these 2. You're not a nerd

👍🏾

These are the patterns OP was referring to (squares are numbered clockwise from the upper-left square being 1): 3, 16, 13, 10, 18, 8, 6, 14, 7, 5, 15, 11, 17, 2, 12, 1, 9, 4 5, 18, 11, 13, 3, 6, 15, 7, 1, 9, 14, 16, 10, 2, 4, 12, 17, 8 11, 6, 10, 12, 1, 4, 14, 16, 2, 9, 17, 8, 13, 15, 3, 7, 18, 5 17, 10, 15, 13, 2, 8, 18, 16, 12, 3, 5, 11, 7, 4, 1, 9, 14, 6 18, 16, 10, 5, 11, 9, 2, 13, 17, 7, 4, 15, 12, 8, 6, 3, 1, 14 Larson's goal is to land on the 4 and 8 squares, which had money and a spin. He would use the 2 square and the next square as a reference to know what pattern the lights were on. For example if he saw 2, then 12 light up, he knows the next squares are 1, 9, and 4, which he'll try to land on. Basically he's waiting to see this: 2-12-1-9-4 2-4-12-17-8 2-9-17-8 2-8-18-16-12-3-5-11-7-4 2-13-17-7-4 If you watch his full game and see other pictures online that show the patterns visually, you'll start to see them. I think he knew the 5 sequence but thought it was too fast and confusing, since it used 4 as a reference. The 17 pattern uses 8 as a reference but is longer and easier to plan for. I think he also wanted to stick to fewer patterns he could nail consistently.

Recorded on professional grade tape, no doubt. They can be exceptionally high quality, and I’m sure CBS could afford the best!

@@CrowTRobot-ni7zu And not just for this, but for practically anything CBS did then that was on tape-- sports, news, daily serials, anything.

Your comment meme version: Ed: gets 5000 and a spin Whammy: im about to end this guys hole career

There’s only one wammy

@@notsquarezum2858 nah i prefer the version that doesn't look like a 12 year old wrote it :P

@@jonbowman7686 2 year old*

Oh my god that was brutal! I think he thought some of michaels “luck” was rubbing off on him

Panji RS not at all, he practiced hundreds of times at home, that was just a slip up

LiveNation your right

it was to see when the pattern started

Filip Nikolic, I beg to differ. To not seem suspicious he would have to do that every few turns, but what idiot would do that? As “Donald Trump” said, it was just a slip up.

Cardi B Because at home and in real life is different, a bit different on the timer

Kite2014 this is hilarious

If I'd have been Michael at that point I would have cracked up laughing out loud and not been able to stop. The whole podium would have been shaking with my belly laughing.

Probably a legality, much like the host of Millionaire asks "Is that your final answer?"

Nah, just chrome. It's more exciting to hear the player yell "STOP" instead of just hitting a button.

They don't. You just simply are not a television producer. IT is all part of the "fun" of the game.

They did the same thing in Wheel of Fortune back in the day by having the contestants constantly shout "BIG MONEY BIG MONEY GIMME BIG MONEY" whenever they spun the wheel.

The players are coached before the show to cheer "big bucks" and yell "stop" in order to make the game seem more exciting to the viewers. To me, it got old after I watched a few shows. They need to be more varied to keep it interesting, plus that "big bucks" nonsense is obviously scripted. On the other hand they may have been trying to push a catch phrase onto the national conciousness.

He wouldn't have hit it, unless he knew every single square (not just 4 and 8), and it was in square 15 (to guarantee an extra spin).

Spursfan1527 = 4 EPISODES

Spursfan1527 oh dear god no

why wouldn't he hit it? he knew every square. He just hit 4 and 8 everytime because they were extra spins and no risk of a whammy

At the time, they put it in 13. Only once have I EVER seen it in 15... that being around the time of Randy/Lori/Cathy.

*F@#%ing legend*