"Don't forget the Greek had all of them at one time in his safety deposit box."

After Archie went broke, the following year I played in a Razz satellite at the Horseshoe during the WSOP. He got heads-up between Archie & myself & I won. He then asked me if I wanted to stake him the next day in the WSOP Razz tournament. I told him that since he did not ask me to stake him during his $30 million run, I could not see how I could stake him now. He just wandered off looking for some other stake horse.

For those of you who have never heard of Archie Karras. I saw the start of his incredible run when Archie first started playing WSOP Main Event champion & Mirage Resorts CEO Bobby Baldwin pool. They played for $20K a set at The Rum Runner, across the street from the Liberace Museum. They played for months & Bobby lost. They then started playing poker heads-up & Bobby lost again. Archie then played a lot of the top poker players heads-up & beat them all except for Johnny Chan, who he lost to once. Archie then took the millions he had won & hit the Horseshoe craps tables for another few months. He won around $30 million dollars all in all. And of course he gave it all back. Except for a house he had bought his mother in Greece.

That was also not the first time that Archie had run a small stake into a million or more. It takes a certain mind set to win that kind of money. Archie of course has it, as did Stuey Ungar. I once saw Stuey bet a guy $20K a pop that he could make more spot shots on a pool table than the other guy could. Stuey lost $120K before he quit & it was apparent from the start, that he had never really played that much pool. He just wanted to gamble. Andy - Las Vegas