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The story of Michael Larson involves a smaller payout from a 1980s game show, but it's interesting because it's more due to a hacker mindset than fraud (though he was involved in the latter later in life) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Larson


The "Press Your Luck" guy. Amazing what you can accomplish when you have nothing but television and time.


There’s a good write-up on this guy (IIRC this is how I discovered priceonomics):

https://priceonomics.com/the-man-who-got-no-whammies/




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