karas in A Sentence

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    Johnny Chan Karas.

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    It's a symbolic moment for Muslim Americans, Public Radio International, Tania Karas, January 3, 2019.

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    That said, Karas was still way ahead, having netted around $1.2 million from Mr. X at this point.

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    In the end, Karas summed up his view on his gambling career,“I consider myself the king of gamblers.

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    In repayment of the loan, Karas gave the man $20,000 and headed for the pool halls with the remaining $10,000.

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    Unfortunately for Karas, he won't be able to go on any other such runs in Vegas for the foreseeable future.

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    During this particular hot streak, Karas continually tried to raise the stakes against his opponents until he was playing half-million dollar games.

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    Karas briefly regained his luck, winning about $2 million in a single high-stake poker match against Chan, but lost all these winnings playing dice directly after.

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    Over the course of the next few weeks, Karas lost about $17 million playing baccarat, $11 million playing dice and $2 million playing poker against Johnny Chan.

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    The high-roller, knowing Karas' skill, happily lent him the money and watched as he turned it into $30,000 in a matter of hours at the poker tables.

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    Like their pool games, the stakes between both men quickly became high at upwards of $15,000 per hand while playing seven card stud- an amount Karas describes as“unheard of in those days”.

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    To psyche out any potential opponents, Karas would occasionally stand up and go to the bar or toilet, leaving the $5 million on the table like he didn't even care about it.

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    Jurica helped him get a job in a restaurant, but Broz soon tired of that work and approached a Czech locksmithNikola Karas, for a three-year apprenticeshipwhich included training, food, and room and board.

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    At the end of this final streak, Karas had managed to acquire another $13 million, bringing his total winnings over this two and a half year period to over $40 million(about $65 million today).

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    Briefly, Karas even topped that after convincing the owner to allow him to bet $200,000 on a single roll- a concession that was quickly withdrew when Karas won nearly a million dollars in two consecutive rolls.

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    Briefly, Karas even topped that after convincing the owner to allow him to bet $200,000 on a single roll- a concession that was quickly rescinded when Karas won nearly a million dollars in two consecutive rolls.

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    Knowing his opponent wouldn't want to let him walk away with over a million dollars of his money, Karas offered to change the game, telling Mr. X,“If you want to gamble with me, let's go play some poker.”.

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    However, there was some criticism about his winning the prize, saying that contribution by two German scientists, Franz Hillenkamp and Michael Karas was also big enough not to be dismissed, and therefore they should also be included as prize winners.

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    Rather than retiring an living off the interest, Karas set up shop at Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel(then known as Binion's Horseshoe) and simply sat at the highest stakes poker table with $5 million in chips in front of him.

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    In the end, Karas was able to convince the casino to allow him to bet $100,000 per dice roll, 20 times more than any other casino in the area offered and 5 times what other customers at Binion's could bet.

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    In the end, Karas was able to convince the casino to allow him to bet $100,000 per dice roll, 20 times more than any other casino in the area offered and 5 times what other customers at that casino could bet.

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    On another occasion, Karas won almost every $5000 chip(the largest at that establishment at the time) the casino had and ultimately walked out carrying $3 million in cash that day which he nonchalantly dumped onto his car's passenger seat before driving to the bank.

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    In one particularly heated set, according to Karas, he lost $320,000 dollars in“about 40 seconds” when Mr. X was able to sink the 9 ball on his break an astounding eight times out of ten, something Karas had never even heard of happening before.

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    Over the course of about two and half months, Karas and this mystery man met many dozens of times to play pool for ever increasing sums of money, eventually culminating in both men agreeing to play for a whopping $40,000 per game, which inevitably resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars changing hands every night.

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    And so it was that after six months of dominating high-stakes poker, losing only one major game to Johnny Chan, Karas got bored of chasing opponents and decided to take his $17 million to the dice tables at the Binion Horseshoe, as they prided themselves on allowing customers to bet more money at once than any other casino in Vegas.

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    Over the next six months, Karas won an additional $10 million from some of the best card players of all time including Stu Ungar(widely considered the best Texas Hold‘Em player ever), Chip Reese(one of the youngest players ever inducted into the poker hall of fame) and Johnny Chan(one of only a handful of people in history to have won the World Series of Poker main event consecutively).

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