exactly, IMHO, this is like someone at a casino who can naturally count cards & figure odds to make the best decisions in the games - to me, this is a price of doing business, that there are some people out there who are going to be able to beat it, with just their own brains (now, if there's a device involved, I do think it's cheating, & they shouldn't keep their winnings), and they should be able to keep their winnings
39:52 *"Will Michael his a whammy? Will a whammy hit Michael?"* 39:56 *"Will Michael pass his spins, or will he end up owning the network?"* 😂 Both those lines, AND how Peter delivered them, are hilarious! 😂
Notice at 54:55 he came one slide change away from losing it all. Michael hit it a beat too soon, and had a Whammy dropped in instead of the Bahamas, it would have been complete disaster.
@@mrmoose6619 He also landed on pick a corner, which I suspect was intentional. Whammies never land on that space. I've even landed on it purposely in the PYL Expert Edition simulator. I think he did it to get rid of a spin.
@@JLukeHypernova That could be... just that the Hawaii and Sailboat were Prize, Money, Whammy spots. If I remember reading it correctly he wanted only Prize or Money Spots or Pick a Corner...
In the un-aired footage, you could hear and feel the panic from the crowd when Larsen crossed into six figures. I think everyone would have keeled over and died if Larsen hit a Whammy at that point... and he almost did!
The way I see it, the excitement of the audience was slowly but surely fading away, in favor of worry and concern that Michael would hit a Whammy and blow $100k. Michael hit big bucks so often everyone became dull to it, only for that excitement to be sparked again when Ed hit $5,000 and a spin twice in a row. Also, Michael was showing obvious signs of mental exhaustion to anyone watching.
no doubt the reason he tapped out the MOMENT he hit $100k.. . the only reason he had to go a few more rounds was the mandatory additional spins passed back to him.. he even says he doesn't want them, he knows it can't go on forever, he's hit his goal, he's tired, he just wants it to be over.
@@nathanhutton5304 Ed Long has said that as well. He said that by the time Michael reached $100k he was getting extremely stressed out over him possibly hitting a whammy. You can tell throughout the episode Michael feeds off the energy of the crowd. They hype him up a lot and he looks at them and gets pumped up. For 45 minutes he was a King lol
26:53 Whammy 34:12 Kauai 34:54 $700 +spin 37:02 Pick A Corner (non whammy square) 37:18 Sailboat *54:55 Bahamas (His Final & REQUIRED spin) These are the times when he accidentally landed on the squares that he was not intending to land on. All unintended squares were Whammy squares except for one of them *His final spin is the craziest!!! Not only did he HAVE to take it, but he landed on an unintended square that was a Whammy square! This particular square would’ve lost him everything. But it happened to blink off of a Whammy right before he hit it… And that was the game!
I did not know until I saw this that Ed played a game prior to the game he played against Michael Larson. I saw the Larson episodes originally back in 1984. I tried to figure out if the board had a pattern by running my VCR in slow motion, but I didn't realize that the patterns involved the position of the light and not the slides in the squares. It's good to know that Ed at least won something on the first episode and didn't walk away empty-handed because of Larson. It's just too bad that Janie Litras got on her first time with Larson.
Which is exactly what Michael did to figure the patterns out, if I remember the documentary correctly. Honestly, watch enough pre-Larson episodes and you'll catch on to the patterns very quickly.
@@ngarcia103most people probably didn’t think of trying to work out the patterns and then go out to the studio to try out for the show. What I don’t understand, as I’m a computer programmer, is why the board could only be configured with fixed patterns and not be truly random. I understand how the slides are fixed images, but the light movement was controlled by electronics and could have been made random.
He's certainly living up to the show's title...PRESS Your Luck. Very smart man, not a cheat, just concentrating on where his press will land. Anyone could do it if they really tried & he DID get a whammy. However, I did feel for the other 2 contestants who were there on the wrong night.
In another youtube video from "Faces from the Forgotten' is a small documentary about Michael Larson. He actually invested his winnings in some bad real estate deals and lost his money and died shortly after. I don't think he every scammed the show, I think he did his homework and studied the patterns.
In my opinion I do not think Michael Larsen cheated...I think he was a genius on how he played the game. I did watch the Press your Luck scandal special and was in awe how Michael Larsen would record and playback episodes of the show. 🍦🚌💲💲🤔
36:02 He has to watch the board to get himself back on track with the pattern. He gives an awkard chuckle at 36:12 while he waits for the right time to stop the board.
they did make special episode of Whammy! The all new Press Your Luck for this specific episode. they brought the same 2 people back, and they brought michael's brother since he passed away at the time. and this was 2002, 2003. really that GSN reboot of press your luck was my press your luck.
That spin at 45:49 is really scary stuff. 6 whammies, and not one of them could hit Larson, who landed on a YELLOW square, and won a measly $500 and a spin compared to the cash he has already won.
yea, he was basically just maintaining spin count with those paltry numbers.. . can you imagine if $500, $600, $750 had been the whole board? it would have taken him an entire week of episodes to hit $100k.
Contestants, do you remember Michael Larson kept Pressing his luck and made $102,851, that is an equivalent of $512,905....if anybody pressing their luck and reach a goal of $500,000, that contestant on Press Your Luck 2022 will win a million dollars on ABC
I like the fact that the board was out of sync after he crossed the 50k point. I wonder if that was intentional to try and get him to whammy because he countered it by stopping a little sooner than when it was in sync
@@jeffreyerekson2179 I wonder if the board was starting to overheat. I'm sure it took a decent amount of power to run that thing. The board probably wasn't designed to run for as long as it did.
Dead serious, they need to put a Michael Larson square on the new PYL as homage to the greatest player to ever play the game, in the bonus round. It would have two effects: 1) It would grant the player $110,237. 2) For the rest of the bonus round, the lights would only bounce around in the exact same pattern they did in the episode in which Michael Larson won his $110,237, at the same speed, and the same squares that always had +1 spin in that episode would also have spins in the bonus round, even if they didn't before. It would then be on the player to ride that the same way he did, with the knowledge we have now, to make it to $500k and then get the bonus payout to $1m.
There are guys in southern California that put on replica game shows. They have done every game show ever aired, including Press Your Luck. They have invented new squares to put on the board, and I believe one of them was a "Michael Larson" square, but I don't remember exactly how it was played.
Or if Janie pulled the strategy game, and immediately passed after she whammied when she had zero dollars and six spins.. Or the very next spin after she hit 700 and a spin.
Something I’ve noticed: at about 46:30, the slides start shuffling out of order. As a kid watching this, I assumed that Michael had spun for so long that the Big Board began to malfunction. However, I realized that the slides shuffling out of order was likely intentional on the part of the game operators; at this point, they were fully aware of what Michael was doing, and tracking the light visually looks way more confusing when there’s literally 3-5 squares changing every 1/3 of a second. I surmise that this contributed to Michael’s fatigue and his decision to essentially quit once he broke six figures. My theory is further supported by the board magically being “fixed” after Ed takes his first spin. This particular mechanic makes me think that the producers may have anticipated that someone could’ve figured out the board’s pattern and had the board shuffle out of order as a failsafe in case of a doomsday scenario like this one.
@930bestvideos I stated a couple of weeks ago that everything you stated was a possibility, and I suspect that Michael noticed it as well because he was going for the #4 tile more frequently when that started. Either way, it's not cheating. It's like going to a casino and counting cards. Frowned upon, yes. Cheating, no.
Just a thought, if this game was in 1983 with the 8th square with 1,500,2,000,and 2,500 without a additional spin instead of 500,750,and 1,000 and a spin. Michael would only won 43,237 in cash and prizes
I remember as a kid I could see the pattern when I watched Press Your Luck with My sister after school. I'm sure more people saw it but never got on the show and pulled it off.
him keeping on getting those free spins is like when you click on something on this site, then see something in the Recommended list you want to watch, then you see something in the Recommendeds of that video, and on and on
😂 while the humor is appreciated, this thought process would have been more likely in his mind had Janie had appeared on and won the previous episode. He genuinely liked Ed, and think a small part of him felt bad Ed was the other contestant in there. Watch 58:39. I don't think he was particularly happy Ed ended up with his final spin being a whammy but that I think Larson was relieved that he wasn't going to be put in a position where they'd be the final two. Also listen to 56:03- 56:10. He was borderline apologetic.
52:15 Ed hits $5000 a 2nd time in a row (he just got plain lucky), but that kinda covers up a bit, the fact that Larson hit that square so many times. Peter even asks "What is going on".
He was a Total badass. I watched the press your luck documentary about Michael Larson. You might say he was 'counting cards' but he cracked the code and ran tables on them. Rest in peace, playa.
“I came back wanting 20,000 and come back the next show” Imagine if the he stopped then. He would have over $130K if he kept up this streak on his second show”
They couldn’t really do anything as far as disqualifying him goes, largely because they had designed the board that way; as one of the producers said in the big bucks documentary, “He hadn’t broken any of the rules of the game, he had played fairly, he was an eligible contestant…“
I'm not saying Michael clued Ed Long in on to what was going on but... 52:24 Ed knows there's zero chance he's going to go on enough of a streak to catch Michael. Janie would have passed there. I think ANY of us would. Ed genuinely liked Michael. He wanted well for him. He had his winnings. He didn't want to be the one who passed that spin and it be the one where Larson whammied and lost it all. 52:36 look at the huge smile he has on his face. He knows. He just did his part to help his new friend whos life had been downtrodden that far hopefully have a better life. 52:39 Larson realizes what he did. That's his "thank you." Then.... 56:05 - 56:10.. Enough said. I don't think they were in cahoots but I think BOTH of the other two figured out what was going on. Janie was pissed off and went for his throat. Ed liked the guy and knew it might make his a life a better place, already would be walking away with his own winnings from the previous episode, and did what he felt was right. You also could tell Larson was REALLY starting to slip and get burned in his last three spins. I wonder how different things would have ended if she passed to him when she had 5 spins or even six. It's just sad what happened to Larson AFTER the show.
I was just saying the other day how I miss the days, even if I was in diapers at the time, when characters like him were on game shows instead of carefully selected contestants chosen to appeal to a certain demographic. Also, even though he had figured out the game, he still had to execute under pressure.
While this was an absolute thrill for all of us PYL fans, it was also possibly the show's downfall because nobody ever came close to that amount after the board patterns were changed, and the ratings also took a tumble.
The show started its downfall probably when the neon slides appeared mid-August 1985, along with adjusting the board’s values (unfortunately for the worse) starting with the cheapening of Square 1 ($2,250 & $1,750 replaced with $750 & $500+One Spin) the same day we 1st saw the neon slides, then in December 1985 with Square 10 having 2 prizes replaced with cash ($1,250 & $1,400). 1986 speeded up PYL’s downfall not only with a move to an afternoon time slot, but also the board’s further decrease in values (along with hindering Pick A Corner’s choices and causing its eventual removal somewhere in July 1986) from early-mid June 1986 to the series finale in September 1986. Pre-neon slides, PYL was still in its stride post-Larson and throughout most of 1985
@@wns808 You're probably correct about the time slot changes and lesser dollar amounts, but I suspect they used regular lights, not neon. When the board is in motion, there's a very quick off/on of each square that only an incandescent bulb is capable of, so I'm more inclined to believe there was a projection system in place that used bulbs for a cleaner image. Just a guess though..
@@poppopw5305 They still used incandescent bulbs for the projectors, the newly-colored slides when we 1st saw them mid-August 1985 were shades of lime green, red-orange, aqua blue, purple, and navy blue .. they even gave $1,500+One Spin a coined background, something its original counterpart never had
@@JLukeHypernova Heh, well yeah they call for it but rarely hit what they call. It's happened a handful of times. Someone called a pool table one show and got it.
The Trick is to watch Square 2 light up and then what square lights up after it. He stops the board on 4 or 8 because they always have spins and never a whammy in that square. Once square 2 lights up, the next light will tell you what sequence that game board is on. It's pretty easy to get use to the patterns if you watch it enough. It just takes some time to do. The whole trick is really focusing on square 2 and remembering what happens next in that sequence. I got use to the patterns just to see how much he memorized. Michael stuck to hitting the button off of 4 of the 5 patterns. Once someone figured out there was a pattern, anyone could of done this, but the fact it was done in the 80s using a VCR pause/stop remote is nuts. On youtube it's easy to pause frame by frame and learn the patterns. Also, learning square 2 is the key would have taken some time. What he did was cool for his time. Too bad he wasn't a great person.
If this took place in 1983, the 8 square will have 1,500, 2,000, and 2,500 without an additional spins instead of 500, 1,000,1500 with a additional spin
For him to figure out these patterns and get on the show and pull it off.. what a f-ing legend. RIP brother.
Seen all these
. Great show make ne5 please
There is something VERY charming and endearing about Michael
Which is exactly why he became a con man after all of his subsequent get rich quick schemes failed.
Nice job on this, man! I LOVE PRESS YOUR LUCK!
Thanks. I always wanted a version of the entire episode with the unaired footage in it. Couldn't find one, so I had to make it.
Larson wasn't a cheater, contrary to what some people may say. He just paid enough attention to those seemingly-random board patterns.
If anybody stared at the board long enough, they'd see the patterns too.
exactly, IMHO, this is like someone at a casino who can naturally count cards & figure odds to make the best decisions in the games - to me, this is a price of doing business, that there are some people out there who are going to be able to beat it, with just their own brains (now, if there's a device involved, I do think it's cheating, & they shouldn't keep their winnings), and they should be able to keep their winnings
The CBS lawyers checked out his gameplay carefully, and they did not find any cheating of any kind.
I can see them now, but I couldn't do anything about it. Too fast.
i don't think anyone actually thinks he's a cheater
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
39:52 *"Will Michael his a whammy? Will a whammy hit Michael?"*
39:56 *"Will Michael pass his spins, or will he end up owning the network?"*
😂 Both those lines, AND how Peter delivered them, are hilarious! 😂
No he didn't
this guy not cheating this guys so smart to beat own game to hit big bucks!
He didn’t cheat, but he lost all of his money with bad investments and not keeping money in a bank.
Absolute legend. Nice to see that unaired footage spliced in like this.
Notice at 54:55 he came one slide change away from losing it all. Michael hit it a beat too soon, and had a Whammy dropped in instead of the Bahamas, it would have been complete disaster.
Imagine if he had to do it all over again. He could probably make enough back to win the game and come back the next episode.
The trip to Hawaii and the Sailboat also failed the pattern much earlier... not as much on the line, but still.
@@mrmoose6619 He also landed on pick a corner, which I suspect was intentional. Whammies never land on that space. I've even landed on it purposely in the PYL Expert Edition simulator. I think he did it to get rid of a spin.
@@JLukeHypernova That could be... just that the Hawaii and Sailboat were Prize, Money, Whammy spots. If I remember reading it correctly he wanted only Prize or Money Spots or Pick a Corner...
@@JLukeHypernova That was an accident, his patterns didn't include corners.
It's amazing that in a few months I'll be the same age as Michael Larsen (35) when he was on the show. He looked a lot older than that.
Peter: “We’re going to have big bucks today. I can feel,it.” Truer words were never spoken,
In the un-aired footage, you could hear and feel the panic from the crowd when Larsen crossed into six figures. I think everyone would have keeled over and died if Larsen hit a Whammy at that point... and he almost did!
We love you Michael
Had he stopped the board even a fraction of a second later while the light was still on square 17, it would’ve been over; that’s how close he came.
The way I see it, the excitement of the audience was slowly but surely fading away, in favor of worry and concern that Michael would hit a Whammy and blow $100k. Michael hit big bucks so often everyone became dull to it, only for that excitement to be sparked again when Ed hit $5,000 and a spin twice in a row. Also, Michael was showing obvious signs of mental exhaustion to anyone watching.
no doubt the reason he tapped out the MOMENT he hit $100k.. . the only reason he had to go a few more rounds was the mandatory additional spins passed back to him.. he even says he doesn't want them, he knows it can't go on forever, he's hit his goal, he's tired, he just wants it to be over.
@@nathanhutton5304 Ed Long has said that as well. He said that by the time Michael reached $100k he was getting extremely stressed out over him possibly hitting a whammy.
You can tell throughout the episode Michael feeds off the energy of the crowd. They hype him up a lot and he looks at them and gets pumped up. For 45 minutes he was a King lol
26:53 Whammy
34:12 Kauai
34:54 $700 +spin
37:02 Pick A Corner (non whammy square)
37:18 Sailboat
*54:55 Bahamas (His Final & REQUIRED spin)
These are the times when he accidentally landed on the squares that he was not intending to land on. All unintended squares were Whammy squares except for one of them
*His final spin is the craziest!!! Not only did he HAVE to take it, but he landed on an unintended square that was a Whammy square! This particular square would’ve lost him everything. But it happened to blink off of a Whammy right before he hit it… And that was the game!
@TiltBrook- AMAZING!!! 👍😎👊
Michael Larson will be missed!!!!!!!!!!!!
I certainly have a lot of questions I'd like to ask him.
@@JLukeHypernova same here
RIP Peter Tomarken as well
@@coordinator3039And Rod Roddy too.
@@coordinator3039we love you
I did not know until I saw this that Ed played a game prior to the game he played against Michael Larson. I saw the Larson episodes originally back in 1984. I tried to figure out if the board had a pattern by running my VCR in slow motion, but I didn't realize that the patterns involved the position of the light and not the slides in the squares. It's good to know that Ed at least won something on the first episode and didn't walk away empty-handed because of Larson. It's just too bad that Janie Litras got on her first time with Larson.
Which is exactly what Michael did to figure the patterns out, if I remember the documentary correctly.
Honestly, watch enough pre-Larson episodes and you'll catch on to the patterns very quickly.
@@ngarcia103most people probably didn’t think of trying to work out the patterns and then go out to the studio to try out for the show. What I don’t understand, as I’m a computer programmer, is why the board could only be configured with fixed patterns and not be truly random. I understand how the slides are fixed images, but the light movement was controlled by electronics and could have been made random.
@ 27:24 if you listen carefully,you can hear someone in the background (maybe the audience) yell out "STOP" just before Michael Larson did...
And whomever yelled that hit the pattern correctly too... neat.
“I’m never losin’ let’s go” truer words have never been spoken
There was a "Press Your Luck Scandal" special in 2003, in which Ed Long tries using the Michael Larson grip.
Whammy with Todd
He's certainly living up to the show's title...PRESS Your Luck. Very smart man, not a cheat, just concentrating on where his press will land. Anyone could do it if they really tried & he DID get a whammy. However, I did feel for the other 2 contestants who were there on the wrong night.
1:00:22
Peter was about to ask Ed & Janie for the other two home players and consulate them with Whammy Shirts
In another youtube video from "Faces from the Forgotten' is a small documentary about Michael Larson. He actually invested his winnings in some bad real estate deals and lost his money and died shortly after. I don't think he every scammed the show, I think he did his homework and studied the patterns.
Right, he didn't break any of the rules of the game he just memorized the 6 different light patterns.
Thanks very much for the uploading 👌
This was during GSN's 50 Greatest Game Shows Of All Time back in 2006,and Michael Larson's episodes were included for the first time.
Michael Larson was a brilliant and smart man, dominated the game and crushed 2 opponents. You thought he’s a cheater, think again…
In my opinion I do not think Michael Larsen cheated...I think he was a genius on how he played the game. I did watch the Press your Luck scandal special and was in awe how Michael Larsen would record and playback episodes of the show. 🍦🚌💲💲🤔
Pure genius! The best player ever, 🙌 praise to Michael Larson👏 🙌
36:02 He has to watch the board to get himself back on track with the pattern. He gives an awkard chuckle at 36:12 while he waits for the right time to stop the board.
Little did we know that we were about to witness history
I'm glad they changed the board to 32 patterns to make it Larson-proof.I guess the producers of Press Your Luck learned their lesson after that!
they did make special episode of Whammy! The all new Press Your Luck for this specific episode. they brought the same 2 people back, and they brought michael's brother since he passed away at the time. and this was 2002, 2003. really that GSN reboot of press your luck was my press your luck.
Not sure if u remember but Peter did the Whammy The All New Press Your Luck Pilot still don't understand why they didn't pick him to do the reboot 🤔
@@vinniemystery563pilot and 2019 rebooted
That spin at 45:49 is really scary stuff. 6 whammies, and not one of them could hit Larson, who landed on a YELLOW square, and won a measly $500 and a spin compared to the cash he has already won.
yea, he was basically just maintaining spin count with those paltry numbers.. . can you imagine if $500, $600, $750 had been the whole board? it would have taken him an entire week of episodes to hit $100k.
Since when is the Whammy a friend?(54:19)
Contestants, do you remember Michael Larson kept Pressing his luck and made $102,851, that is an equivalent of $512,905....if anybody pressing their luck and reach a goal of $500,000, that contestant on Press Your Luck 2022 will win a million dollars on ABC
8:10 …Ed should’ve guessed the other letter in his name
I like the fact that the board was out of sync after he crossed the 50k point. I wonder if that was intentional to try and get him to whammy because he countered it by stopping a little sooner than when it was in sync
I never noticed that before.
@@JLukeHypernovait's not obvious immediately but it gets more noticable after around 60k
@@jeffreyerekson2179 I wonder if the board was starting to overheat. I'm sure it took a decent amount of power to run that thing. The board probably wasn't designed to run for as long as it did.
@@JLukeHypernova but it went back to normal after Ed whammied on his first spin so I don't think so.
Dead serious, they need to put a Michael Larson square on the new PYL as homage to the greatest player to ever play the game, in the bonus round. It would have two effects:
1) It would grant the player $110,237.
2) For the rest of the bonus round, the lights would only bounce around in the exact same pattern they did in the episode in which Michael Larson won his $110,237, at the same speed, and the same squares that always had +1 spin in that episode would also have spins in the bonus round, even if they didn't before. It would then be on the player to ride that the same way he did, with the knowledge we have now, to make it to $500k and then get the bonus payout to $1m.
There are guys in southern California that put on replica game shows. They have done every game show ever aired, including Press Your Luck. They have invented new squares to put on the board, and I believe one of them was a "Michael Larson" square, but I don't remember exactly how it was played.
@@jeopardy60611 Where can I find them? I'm curious.
lulz.. . The way he apologizes to poor Ed and Janie at the end:
"I'm sorry [...] I didn't want to do it to you." 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Just a thought here… If Ed had passed his spins after reaching $10,000, this game could have had a very different outcome…
Hell, he should’ve passed at $5,000.
Or if Janie pulled the strategy game, and immediately passed after she whammied when she had zero dollars and six spins.. Or the very next spin after she hit 700 and a spin.
Michael: I like you Ed. Don't Press Your Luck tomorrow.
I love Ed, so enthusiastic.😊❤
Something I’ve noticed: at about 46:30, the slides start shuffling out of order. As a kid watching this, I assumed that Michael had spun for so long that the Big Board began to malfunction.
However, I realized that the slides shuffling out of order was likely intentional on the part of the game operators; at this point, they were fully aware of what Michael was doing, and tracking the light visually looks way more confusing when there’s literally 3-5 squares changing every 1/3 of a second. I surmise that this contributed to Michael’s fatigue and his decision to essentially quit once he broke six figures.
My theory is further supported by the board magically being “fixed” after Ed takes his first spin. This particular mechanic makes me think that the producers may have anticipated that someone could’ve figured out the board’s pattern and had the board shuffle out of order as a failsafe in case of a doomsday scenario like this one.
@930bestvideos I stated a couple of weeks ago that everything you stated was a possibility, and I suspect that Michael noticed it as well because he was going for the #4 tile more frequently when that started.
Either way, it's not cheating. It's like going to a casino and counting cards. Frowned upon, yes. Cheating, no.
@@jeffreyerekson2179Yeah, I noticed your comment a few hours after I made mine. Michael exploited a loophole and he was rewarded handsomely.
That should be $514,255 right there from the original Press Your Luck to the reboot of Press Your Luck 2022
110K in 1984 = approximately $320K today
And it would go past the $500,000 to win a million dollars. (Which hasn’t happened yet but we’ve had two separate close calls)
@ 8:22 the infamous e bra size answer
Just a thought, if this game was in 1983 with the 8th square with 1,500,2,000,and 2,500 without a additional spin instead of 500,750,and 1,000 and a spin. Michael would only won 43,237 in cash and prizes
He probably would've just played longer in that circumstance, I think.
@@JLukeHypernova or went for the 4th tile more often
I feel bad for the other two players against Michael. Michael's basically just playing the game himself.
I feel bad most for jenie. At least Ed won his first game going away with 11,000 in cash and prizes
Michael was basically THE FINAL BOSS OF PRESS YOUR LUCK !! 🤣🤣
he still had to get the questions right, to earn the spins...knowing the board pattern matters not, if you don't earn any spins
Unaired footage
38:43
44:07
44:51
50:35
I remember as a kid I could see the pattern when I watched Press Your Luck with My sister after school. I'm sure more people saw it but never got on the show and pulled it off.
Who's here after the Press The Luck film was announced with Paul Walter Hauser as Michael Larson?
Wait, what?
him keeping on getting those free spins is like when you click on something on this site, then see something in the Recommended list you want to watch, then you see something in the Recommendeds of that video, and on and on
When Ed won his game Michael Larson was probably in the wings thinking enjoy it while you can
Larson actually said to Long that he hoped they didn't meet.
How Ed got $11,516
14:20
Ed already had $9,300 and the Washington D.C. trip was $2,216 which added together gave him a total of $11,516.
@@Coolremac Don't forget the E-cup brassieres.
😂 while the humor is appreciated, this thought process would have been more likely in his mind had Janie had appeared on and won the previous episode. He genuinely liked Ed, and think a small part of him felt bad Ed was the other contestant in there. Watch 58:39. I don't think he was particularly happy Ed ended up with his final spin being a whammy but that I think Larson was relieved that he wasn't going to be put in a position where they'd be the final two. Also listen to 56:03- 56:10. He was borderline apologetic.
Ed and Michael got the UFO whammy on their very first spin.
1:00:12 should've listened to Peter, Michael.
Square #6 has a slide going out at the end. Michael corrupted the board! :)
52:15 Ed hits $5000 a 2nd time in a row (he just got plain lucky), but that kinda covers up a bit, the fact that Larson hit that square so many times. Peter even asks "What is going on".
After Ed won his game, he said that largest bra size is e. And I still won
He was a Total badass. I watched the press your luck documentary about Michael Larson. You might say he was 'counting cards' but he cracked the code and ran tables on them. Rest in peace, playa.
“I came back wanting 20,000 and come back the next show”
Imagine if the he stopped then. He would have over $130K if he kept up this streak on his second show”
I wonder what would've happened if Michael told them at the end how he was able to exploit the patterns and his strategy?
They probably would've canceled the rest of the games scheduled for that day, since he'd be exposing the secret.
@@JLukeHypernova they wouldn’t have enough time to memorize the board that fast
@@jaydencotto-martinez4995 That's probably true. But would you want to take that chance if you were running the show?
@@JLukeHypernova I suppose not
They couldn’t really do anything as far as disqualifying him goes, largely because they had designed the board that way; as one of the producers said in the big bucks documentary, “He hadn’t broken any of the rules of the game, he had played fairly, he was an eligible contestant…“
RIP michael larson and RIP peter tomarken
And Rod Roddy.
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Michael, your score is ten times more than Janie
34:08 "No I ain't never losing 'em" That could have blown his cover right there. But ironically he hits a trip on his next spin......
I'm not saying Michael clued Ed Long in on to what was going on but...
52:24 Ed knows there's zero chance he's going to go on enough of a streak to catch Michael. Janie would have passed there. I think ANY of us would. Ed genuinely liked Michael. He wanted well for him. He had his winnings. He didn't want to be the one who passed that spin and it be the one where Larson whammied and lost it all.
52:36 look at the huge smile he has on his face. He knows. He just did his part to help his new friend whos life had been downtrodden that far hopefully have a better life.
52:39 Larson realizes what he did. That's his "thank you."
Then....
56:05 - 56:10.. Enough said.
I don't think they were in cahoots but I think BOTH of the other two figured out what was going on. Janie was pissed off and went for his throat. Ed liked the guy and knew it might make his a life a better place, already would be walking away with his own winnings from the previous episode, and did what he felt was right.
You also could tell Larson was REALLY starting to slip and get burned in his last three spins. I wonder how different things would have ended if she passed to him when she had 5 spins or even six.
It's just sad what happened to Larson AFTER the show.
Michael best of Press your luck Downfall was his quick rich schemes last luck
it's sad how this was a sort of downfall for him
9:25 - An “E”?
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For the amount of money he got to I would pass spins instead of going over $100,000
35:03 LAST HOME PLAYER SPIN!
They should bring it back.
I always hated the Boy George WHAMMY...... 🎶Would you ever hurt a Whammy..🎶😳😂
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I was just saying the other day how I miss the days, even if I was in diapers at the time, when characters like him were on game shows instead of carefully selected contestants chosen to appeal to a certain demographic.
Also, even though he had figured out the game, he still had to execute under pressure.
While this was an absolute thrill for all of us PYL fans, it was also possibly the show's downfall because nobody ever came close to that amount after the board patterns were changed, and the ratings also took a tumble.
In 1986, CBS move press your luck to 4 pm to premiere the revival of card sharks
@@crgray1979 oh really? That's interesting!!
The show started its downfall probably when the neon slides appeared mid-August 1985, along with adjusting the board’s values (unfortunately for the worse) starting with the cheapening of Square 1 ($2,250 & $1,750 replaced with $750 & $500+One Spin) the same day we 1st saw the neon slides, then in December 1985 with Square 10 having 2 prizes replaced with cash ($1,250 & $1,400). 1986 speeded up PYL’s downfall not only with a move to an afternoon time slot, but also the board’s further decrease in values (along with hindering Pick A Corner’s choices and causing its eventual removal somewhere in July 1986) from early-mid June 1986 to the series finale in September 1986. Pre-neon slides, PYL was still in its stride post-Larson and throughout most of 1985
@@wns808 You're probably correct about the time slot changes and lesser dollar amounts, but I suspect they used regular lights, not neon. When the board is in motion, there's a very quick off/on of each square that only an incandescent bulb is capable of, so I'm more inclined to believe there was a projection system in place that used bulbs for a cleaner image. Just a guess though..
@@poppopw5305 They still used incandescent bulbs for the projectors, the newly-colored slides when we 1st saw them mid-August 1985 were shades of lime green, red-orange, aqua blue, purple, and navy blue .. they even gave $1,500+One Spin a coined background, something its original counterpart never had
How many patterns did the board have on Second Chance? That show was a lot more low tech then PYL LOL
Ed: "Oh, my hands are sore!" 😂
Imagine if there is a bonus round like the new Press Your Luck today? He will destroy all of America with his skill, 1 million dollars!
Ed calls for Big Bucks and he hits the square...... eerie foreshadowing and irony for the next episode.
To be fair, though, every contestant does the same thing at some point.
@@JLukeHypernova Heh, well yeah they call for it but rarely hit what they call. It's happened a handful of times. Someone called a pool table one show and got it.
Michael took 46 spins on the big board. 45 in a row without a Whammy.
Peter, at the end of the episode : Spend it wisely
Narrator : Michael, in fact, did not spend it wisely
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Whoa! GSN didn’t crunch the credits?
Ed Long didn't know what he had coming the next episode......
The Trick is to watch Square 2 light up and then what square lights up after it. He stops the board on 4 or 8 because they always have spins and never a whammy in that square. Once square 2 lights up, the next light will tell you what sequence that game board is on. It's pretty easy to get use to the patterns if you watch it enough. It just takes some time to do. The whole trick is really focusing on square 2 and remembering what happens next in that sequence. I got use to the patterns just to see how much he memorized. Michael stuck to hitting the button off of 4 of the 5 patterns. Once someone figured out there was a pattern, anyone could of done this, but the fact it was done in the 80s using a VCR pause/stop remote is nuts. On youtube it's easy to pause frame by frame and learn the patterns. Also, learning square 2 is the key would have taken some time. What he did was cool for his time. Too bad he wasn't a great person.
If this took place in 1983, the 8 square will have 1,500, 2,000, and 2,500 without an additional spins instead of 500, 1,000,1500 with a additional spin
48:43 I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!
14:49 NEXT-TO-LAST HOME PLAYER SPIN!
Whatever happened to Ed?
Larson wasn’t a cheater. He just did something first that others would have eventually figured out.
If Michael Larson was alive today, would he be able to appear on the current version hosted by Elizabeth Banks? Hmmm.
Assuming he wasn't in prison, he most likely would've made an appearance.
Ed is a Canadian
That is true.
@@JLukeHypernova Where in Canada could he have come from?
Is he doing the Dr. Evil thing 😂? Thirteen years before Austin Powers??
Yep…lol
Like Snoop Dogg, Michael had money on his mind
Michael did NOT cheat, he won the game…..
also, there is something very charming and sexy about him…
Michael is from my home state of Ohio
$74,851.... Michael Big Bucks please
Every man for himself
Ed doesn't know his bra size maybe he should ask his wife next time
Lol
Bruh 😂🤣
Ed.
26:55
"Say goodbye."
*BOOM
Its funny just how brilliant he was in how he won all that money and just really dumb in how he lost it....
Liquidation + leaving it at home = no more money.
No he wasn’t! He meant business