The Man Who Lost $204 Million On A Trip To Vegas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2023
- When Terrance Watanabe spent 3 years in Las Vegas between 2005 and 2008, he unexpectedly set the record for the most money ever lost there. What happened? Who's fault was it? What was the outcome? Where is Terry now? Did he ever recover?
This Is, The Man Who Lost $204 Million On A Trip To Vegas (Terrance Watanabe).
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Also, the idea for this video was inspired by "Pablito's Way" who posted a video on a similar topic in February 2021 titled "When Going to Vegas Goes Seriously Wrong" You can watch their version here - • When Going to Vegas Go... - บันเทิง
This guy was definetely just 1% away from winning a gazillion dollars
Lol
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99% of gamblers quit before a big win (do y’all realise that this comment is a joke? i’m not trying to like endorse gambling it’s just goofin round)
bro did not finish the video yet
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As someone who lost $5 dollars on a football bet back in march, i understand what this man felt
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As someone who gained 5 dollars from a guy losing a bet on a football match back in march, i understand what this man felt
@@user-nx7io1ns7pwill he make me better at gambling?
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Damn allah must be pretty desperate.
Let’s just take a moment to appreciate how Steve Wynn, a casino owner, banned Terrance from his casinos for his own good.
and lets take moment to despice how ceasars keep taking advantage of him when obviously his gambling was out of hands. Im talking about wagering 850mil per year in a casino
Your grammer stinks. Please proofread your post, Junior.
Yeah, if he truly gave a shit about people he wouldn't be running a casino.
Ohh really after ppl losing money they're not allowed of course the owner the biggest greedy money 🤑🤑 maker
@johnoneill1386 very true. You ban people because of law suits my parents own casino's
As someone who once bet $0.75 and lost it all at a casino I understand what this man went through.
😂😂😂😂😂 that’s made me laugh more than it should! 😉😂😂😂😂😂
Dude I was devastated when I lost $20 bucks on one machine 😂
i lost ten bucks on slots and cried
Dork😂
Good thing you didn't get banned for your recklessness
The guy who banned him from the casino instead of trying to get all the money he could out of him was a good person definitely better than what alot of casino owners would do
Yes!
I hate gambling and casinos but it is good that someone didn’t exploit someone addiction to it instead putting a limit to help them stop
I mean, the owner was already a billionaire. He probably knew enough was enough.
Only reason is because they are both rich and he was sympathetic due to their same status.
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He wasn't even a bad person. Just had an addiction that was fueled for far too long.
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Yeah, and by people that used every trick in the book to keep him diving to his own demise
All except for the first casino went out of their way to make sure Terry Watanabe stayed an addict.
Eight replies and five of them are bots, that's insane bro 💀
@@JaxonPB Welcome to the future, dude. It's amazing being the only person commenting that isn't a bot yet thinking you have genuine conversations with people, huh?
My dad has the same story. He didn't lose 204 million but he lost everything he earned which was close to 25 million dollars. He took his own life after losing everything. Stay away from gambling... You never end up well.. It's always a brutal and dark place for gamblers... My dad was up almost 14 million dollars before he lost it all. It doesn't matter how much you are up. You can lose everything in minutes. Human beings are just very compulsive animals. I was always angry at him for leaving us like this but I feel sorry for him in the end.. He worked extremely hard to retire when he was in his early 30s and then lost everything. RIP I guess.
I feel your pain 😞 RIP TO YOUR DAD
What kind of life are you and your family living now ?
@@spanishmontana6121 normal one now. I guess better than normal actually. I bought a house last year and taking care of my mom. My mom hasn't work a day in her life and speaks almost no English so I have to take care of her.. before my dad died, he got me a job working for one of his friend and it's a very high paying job so I am super grateful for that I guess..
@@spanishmontana6121 BTW I realize how fake everyone really are. Everyone around you treat you so well when you are well off and dispear when you lose everything. My parents had so many friends but they are all non existed now... I don't know if my parents just meet shallow as people or if human beings are just shallow and money driven
@lingling21100 lucky you ...I was born to a rich family too but my dad spent all his money on woman and flashy items now we dead broke man
Horrific story as an ex gambler myself. I lost around 10-15k playing roulette but then i'm not rich or wealthy. This guy seems like a genuine guy, gave to charity. He just started gambling due to boredom in retirement. The casinos took it all from him and nearly sent him to jail as well. So so sad. People like this and there will be MANY wealthy individuals LIKE him just need human connection. Imagine the good he could have done for a developing country. His money could have changed the lives of millions of people, generations.
Crazy, I thought there are no jail for debt in the US. Couldn't have have filed bankruptcy?
instead that money probably paid for another yacht, goddamnit
roulette was also my vice. Won a poker tournament for 44k at choctaw in oklahoma that i played on a whim because i was staying there that night just passing through. I was extremely happy as that was a TON of money to me. I ended up losing over 40 thousand of it playing roulette in vegas over the next three days. Had thoughts of ending it after that. To this day never touched a table again. been four years
@@rukzo8226 sorry to hear that pal, many like us in the same position
the nicest people are the most exploited in every aspect of the world sadly
This such a sad story. The guy doesn’t even sound like a bad person, just someone who was extremely lonely with no real human connection.
This is the deep root cause..he was lonely depressed and desperate for meaning and human connection
oh stop feeling bad when a grown rich man is making dumb decisions. get a life
@@daebak7370...am 100% agree with u...well said ...🥀🥀🥀
@@lllllllllllllllll905 did you even watch the video?
@@lllllllllllllllll905 So I'm only allowed to feel bad for poor kids? I think you should get a life to learn empathy.
Most casinos just have "if you think you have a gambling addiction, call the hotline."
Steve Wynn saw someone spending a ton of money at his casino, and instead of taking in the profits, he met with him and banned him to try to stop him from losing everything.
Mad respect to him for that.
I agree and give the guy due respect. But it was a business decision too. Wynn seeks to portray his resort as a high-class venue for choosy people; he doesn't want drunk gambling addicts littering the tables, nor does he want high-profile lawsuits (he saw that one coming a mile away). Modern-day Caesars is just a trashy AI-driven cash machine.
@@horrortackleharryhonestly you sound so kissable right now ma dawg!!
@@sparkybig9799bro whut?
Yep a smart business decision and the right decision personally. Wynn is a billionaire for a reason.
@@anzorsaoutiev5753lmao
I had a former close friend with a gambling addiction: his wife once sent me down to the local casino after he hadn’t come home all night. I found him at a black jack table, leaning on one arm and half-asleep…still playing! I tried to get him to leave and even told the dealer ‘this man is clearly not in his right state of kind-he’s half asleep!’ to which they replied ‘he says he’s fine!’
He had been there 24 hours-and no one at the casino would take responsibility. Disgusting.
This did not happen.
@@Charlie1776_I'm his friend. It did happen.
@@Charlie1776_nothing ever happens right
It’s brutal. I live in Vegas and the addiction is insane. I was always telling myself “I’d never get addicted” but you slowly get consumed. Be careful, have fun
Gambling addiction is no joke, and the casino abused him. They basically drugged and robbed him. He owned up to it in the end. Really feel for the guy
He did those things to himself. They lacked the power to force him into anything.
The casino was wrong to abuse him but he was also in the wrong to be spending the way he was...the situation ended about as well as it could have.
He quit before hitting it big.
@@AirrackVIogsumm okay
@@AirrackVIogsumm okay
This guy worked an honest job to get his fortune, retired early to go into philanthropy, got caught up in the gambling scene, abused by the casino's owner, and then got cancer. I just feel really bad for this guy, he didn't deserve any of the bad stuff and all of the good.
I'd say he absolutely did not deserve the cancer and was not a bad person, but it was his choice to do the rest. No one forced him to drink or forced him to gamble or forced him to even enter the casino. I absolutely feel bad for him because addiction is a hell of a thing, and he definitely did a lot of good stuff with it, but at the end of the day, he made his own bed.
I do want to reiterate that I do feel terrible for him, though. I definitely wish him well.
"Worked an honest job" ...hmmm, more like fell into a successful firm that his father built, and then he just kept doing the same thing.
@@avernvrey7422that counts as honest work. It's like he scammed his way into it.
@@avernvrey7422 Did you watch video? he turned 17 local shops into a $25 million a MONTH international business. Most people wouldn't even be able to run the local shops. Most small businesses fail. For reference, a US mcdonalds franchise will make around $200 thousand a month. thats equivalent to owning 125 mcdonalds.
"Abused by the casino owner" lmao, more like lacked any impulse control whatsoever.
Stay strong, Terry. I believe the goodness in your heart and the good and generous deeds you have done in the past will pull you through.
He looks like a good man who was looking for purpose in life but struggling to, I wish him the very best ❤
Steve Wynn's father was also a compulsive gambler that left $350,000 in gambling debts when he died. He must've felt Terrance's situation on a personal level.
does his father being a gambler have any correlation to the fact that they own the Wynn casino in las vegas?
He had to make back the money his father lost
Steve Wynn is NOT a good person and Steve Wynn did not ban him for altruistic reasons. Steve Wynn saw that he's a compulsive gambler (easily recognized because of his father) that had already lost a fortune. He banned him because he didn't think his fortune would last much longer and didn't want to be in the situation that the Caesars ultimately ended up in with Watanabe oweing the casino $14 million with no way to pay. In other words Wynn exploited him as much as they thought possible before it became a risk to them and then they banned him.
@@2011bluemanStill based.
@@2011blueman you give me hundreds of millions in exchange I give you 14 millions where most of it will be spent on my business, seems like a good deal to me
I want to hear every personal story people had with this guy. He must've been legendary to the staff
Oh no bots are in my comments
The man literally lived the Hangover movie but not just for a weekend, but a whole ass three years.
@@VivzOfficiall8funny how a bot is saying this
He sounds like an incredible human being that was taken advantage of by people focused on greed and misfortune in order to win at life themselves. I feel bad for Watanabe, definitely a good one
@@user-nx7io1ns7pbrother, when was the last time a Jehovah's witnesses ever made someone get into another religion, never and so will this incessant spam in TH-cam comments, this is not the way to make someone Islamic
Gambling is an awful thing. Terry sounds like a good person, but was completely destroyed by his addiction
I'll never understand why someone who is already fabulously rich would have even the slightest interest in gambling.
Building and running a business is an incredibly high risk environment with a lot of intense activity and when you step away from that it's hard to find things to do that replicate that feeling of power and risk for some people.
@@ruk2023-- I think thats probably why terry choose to pick house games instead of skill games. He probably missed those crazy highs from major success at the choices he made that felt against the odds.
Never enough!😮
Boredom, trying to fulfill a void in life, etc. it can happen to anyone. Like the saying goes even millionaires can become broke if they try to live like billionaires.
I respect how even in an intoxicated state, he still paid the workers and employees handsomely and even bought them steaks. A lot of people tend to show their rude nature when they're as rich and influential as Terry was in Las Vegas, and yet he didn't do that. It's sad how the casino exploited him, especially when he was so considerate to the employees.
It's called relaxed inhibitions and is common with drunks.. poor judgement when it comes to money doing things you wouldn't normally do ie buying drinks for complete strangers or impulse buying.
I have done it myself and studied it when taking the Servsafe alcohol management class
The level of elaborate tipping is the saddest part. It’s not just a kind huge tip for the bartender or something, it’s very ostentatious. He was desperately seeking some kind of connection or impact on other people and the only way he could figure out how was to hand out steaks to big groups of people. Very sad.
Yeah, he really seems like a nice person who cared about people around him, even when drunk. He could be a rich drunk brat, but he wasn’t. He had a serious addiction, and I feel terrible for him, but he really can’t blame it on the casino. He’s an adult and he makes his own decisions.
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@mixwell1983 sure.. preparing a bunch of Tiffany Co. Boxes with $50 gift cards inside is ABSOLUTELY AN IMPULSE DECISION. This is why I tip only when needed. Being generous don't do you no good deeds. People are ruthless.
Feel sorry for the guy.. he got caught up in the gambling game and it destroyed him. He seems good hearted and sincere.
Gambling addiction is no joke, My friend.
@@Karin.19 Glad I don’t gamble
Fair, given his life was spent growing a giant-ass company
@@chasehedges6775there’s gambling in kid arcades
@@user-nx7io1ns7p don't try to spread that disease here
Sad story. Seems like a decent guy. Worked hard his whole life and his loneliness throw him into addiction. Lots of respect to the casino who cut him off and true shame on Cesars casino who doubled down on his addiction. Wish him recovery
So Sorry to hear Terry had a bad gambling addiction.Terry was very generous to his employees.
Man I would never recover losing $1,000 let alone 200 million! 😅
Not reading your comment but I posted a Hilarious video of a woman crying about her dog being put down because I make better content 😂 😅
i could never lose 10 dollars on a moldy grocery store frozen pizza 😭
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It's terrifying how much of a grip a gambling addiction can have on an individual. My heart really goes out to people who have this addiction.
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@@TheCoyote2005 replying to original comment
i feel for em. I work in a casino, so I've seen my fair share of addicts chasing that high. People laugh at it but It's really no different from a heroin addiction. Except instead of destroying your body you're destroying your financial security. I've seen motherfuckers hit thousand dollar jackpots and not feel anything because they're already thousands in the hole.
I know about this addiction all to well. It's very dangerous, but very potent. It changes the way you see money...and it changes how you think. It can make you so incredibly stupid... you'd do the dumbest shit just for the "chance" at winning. I know someone who stole from a child...their own child...just to go gamble. It was heart breaking.
This is the best vid Forrest has uploaded yet
I knew Terry very well. One of the most generous people you could ever meet. Very sad story
This is a very smart man. He was a CEO for a successful company which made hundreds of millions of dollars, and yet he lost his share in a matter of 3 years. It just shows how destructive gambling addiction is that even business smart people can't survive it on their own
he inherited that business from his dad and sold it. If he had started it himself he would have money again as he would have the skills to do it again.
He didn't build the firm though. He was just given it by his dad. Not sure how "smart" he was. A better example might be that old story of a casino/hotel in LV asking the annual CPA convention to find another venue because their members didn't gamble much and the casino wasn't making enough off of them. The CPAs weren't especially smart, they just knew the odds.
@@jayyu2174 I would love to see you inherit a business and run it to the ground, like most normies would
@@avernvrey7422 Grow a brain and watch the video again. He didn't "inherit" the business. Being a CEO doesn't mean you own a business, it just means you have shares in it and he just sold his shares. That being said, he made the business much larger and much more profitable after becoming the CEO. I'm pretty sure an average person is unable to do that
Business acumen and hard work have nothing to do with wisdom. You can be smart in some areas and dumb as a brick in others. Being 'smart' isn't a catchall trait.
Also, once you become rich enough, basically the only way you can fall is up. Social and government systems are set up so that it becomes nearly impossible to not grow once you're large enough.
To think this dude was able to be a ceo of a carnival supply company to draining his money on a Las Vegas casino shows how dangerous gambling can be
It's nuts, I can understand if you make some profit that you'll continue gambling, but when he was at 100 million dollar loss and realizing he's shit at gambling, I dont get why you'd even continue, he was bound to hit rock bottom
To think this dude took over his dad's company and used the base and contacts to return to asia exploit low paid workers and sell to the US market at an insane mark up and then spent ALL the profit in a casino rather than actually helping people. Shows how dangerous nepotism can be.
@@degenetron7590you need a lot of discipline to let go. That’s how gambling gets you, clinging on into thinking you can make it all back.
Lose 5k, making back 3k, losing that making 1.3k. Slowly syphoning your whole bank account. They did it to him.
I don’t want to rewatch but didn’t Sunny said that he got 50k cash back if he lost 300k.
The most genius plot to take all his money. 250k for every 50k they give him. To make the just 300k in cash back he would of given them 1.8M
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@@jackcollins7061common man what the f**k, dude knew to earn money you have to ruin completly good rise and fall story with your stupid leftist propaganda. Were you ever in a position to exploit those same people but choose not to because you are so good hearthed ? Never and never will be
His story describes how hard working, good people can end up terribly bad by just few mistakes.
I wish you could choose another voice for these, I didn't mind it at first but Sunny's voice now drives me nuts.
Worst part is that after all the generosity, giving ludicrous amounts of money away to random people just because he had it, he got very little in return when he needed help himself.
Well he shouldn't have been an Idiot losing that kind of money losing a Hundred bucks isn1 thing losing 1 million is Ridiculous 🤷
@@Rambo-hz4ykmy man was constantly drugged up, rich, and gaslit by the casino's staff.
I've seen mothers forget their children to gamble when sober, that much money while unfortunate is completely possible to gamble away.
@SodiumTF I get You but we can't blame or make excuses for being Stupid I could take $25,000 right now to the Casino odds are I'd probably loose it all in 1 night 🌙 so if I go I just $100 get me?
i doubt anyone of those people even know he has cancer.
obviously he should have spent time making people indebted to him.
@@SodiumTFhe is also made the decision to gambling his money , when the first ceo banned him from the casino because he was spending too much and drinking too much , it was a saving moment for him to understand that he was addicted and needed help instead he decided to go all out ,gambling is alway never a good thing especially if you don’t know how to stop ,with that kind of Money , he could have done so much then just gambling .
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When he refused to recognize his gambling and alcohol problem after Steve Wynn banned him, his fate was sealed. The bell doesn’t ring any louder than that.
casinos are so evil. people blame the problem gamblers, and surely they're responsible for their own conduct. but seeing how one manager said "this guy has a serious problem, i'm cutting him off" and the response from the competition was to say "COME ON DOWN!" really underscores what a heartless business it is.
He seemed like a genuinely nice guy who worked very hard and treated people nicely, he just made a really horrible mistake and perhaps had some gambling and alcohol addictions that took him down. I feel for him
perhaps?...PERHAPS?! he most definitely had gambling and alcohol addictions
still you don’t waste away a rough billion.
It baffles me why people carry such an empty sympathy towards an adult millionaire who on his own decided to ruin his life because he was bored and lacked purpose. This guy had everything. He was a winner and still decided nah I’m gonna ruin my life because im a millionaire.
@@justso-gr3jj I feel nothing for him. Personally I have a clear separation of empathy between someone who has little to nothing VS someone who has, everything. You got everything and more yet by your own stupidity choose to squander it all for nothing, You deserve every suffering that comes to you. That is my stands on it
@@Lord.Schnitzeli mean Elon Musk is doing it and he isnt even gambling.
I know it's not the casinos responsibility to stop someone from gambling, but good for Steve Wynn to say, "Nope, I'm not going to facilitate this man's ruin."
I really don't get it, if you go to a bar and get drunk the bartender will be required to cut you off and in many places even have duty of care to not allow you to drive drunk and call you a taxi. But in a casino, black out drunk guy barely able to remember previous sentence in the conversation is instead fed prescription pills and even more alcohol and still made to gamble.
@@penitent2401exactly. The government let's the casinos do what they want because the casinos own them. I don't understand why some people here in the comments defend the casinos, probably they are employees in casinos or scammers
@@penitent2401yeah, the casinos should bear some level of responsibility if they’re going to serve it. The staff should be trained or at least have someone they can call to assess the situation and make those calls. To let someone get black out drunk, knowingly provide them with more alcohol than one person should have in a day AND give him prescription pills? That’s why they ended their case, how someone wasn’t thrown in jail for that is insane.
@@penitent2401welcome to capitalism. If we can abuse your addiction which will result in you continuing your other addiction which will make us rich as kings, we will gladly guide you to your own destruction.
@@kevinsaviro2708 yep but somehow just across the road in a restaurant or bar, the law says they have duty of care for their patrons and they can be held liable.
Props to the Casino owner who didn't prey on Terry
If you win so much money at a casino they will make you quit. But they can let someone with a problem lose that much money? There should be a law against that.
I feel so bad that the guy who literally gave millions to cancer and AIDS research couldn't even raise the amount he needed when he needed it. This is just overall a sad story. Good on Wynn for doing the right thing.
the difference is that he had it though. a billionaire collecting donations for himself is iffy.
Yeah so sad after donating millions to AIDS And Cancer Research.... He didn't even have insurance in the end. You'd think those foundations would provide treatment for him..... That is so sad when generosity is not reciprocated.
Casinos are predatory by nature, taking peoples money is their default intention, they are of the Devil aka Satan 666
@@ID_iKONIC_VIP They probably didn't want to give him anything because they were afraid he'd gamble it away the next day
@@BoxStudioExecutiveif there is a will there is a way ...they simply could have paid the hospitals directly if they wanted to!!!
Mad respect to both Terry for accepting his past mistakes and Steve for attempting to stop the raging flames of Terry's addiction instead of adding fuel to it
Steve Wynn is a real one for that.
Prodigal Son.
I’ve seen firsthand what a gambling addiction can do to ppl even with little to no money.. I hope ppl out there sees this story and it saves at least one person from going down that dark road
Lmao. The ad that played before this video was for a gambling app 😅
Imagine being such a compulsive gambler that the owner of a casino bans you for it.
That's either a sign of overwhelming compassion on the owner's part or unprecedented failure on the gambler's part.
imagine getting punished for spending too much money. that's how you know your too far gone.
Wyan have my respect, Caesar are monsters
Yeah the first casino owner saw an addict and chose not to abuse him, that is better than 90% of people in that kind of business.
@@user-nx7io1ns7pscrew off
He probably thought it would start looking bad for business lol
"he was facing 28 years in prison, his life never recovered"
Vegas has a dangerous talent in ruining people's lives
Go cook and STOP REPLYING ON EVERY VIDEO I SEE JESUS CHRIST MAN
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Your the guy that killed in a medieval song for a new tutsi was the same scream by a black autistic man with a single face
Super sad man. Blessings 🙏🏾
shout out to the owner that banned him from his casinos cause not many people would give up that much money
I'm surprised there's not more comments about this, at least there was one guy who saw what was happening and did his part to put a stop to it.
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It isn't morals. The house couldn't cover his bets in the event he won.
I was that owner. I'm a good man.
@@jessyfretz5800 it's definitely morals maybe they couldn't cover it but it's a luxury casino and the owner has many many chains he banned him from every single casino he owned he def has the money
Respect for Steve Wynn who actually was trying to help him instead of continuing to take his money. I read that Steve's father was a gambler and left debts when he passed away so Steve must have felt bad for Mr. Watanabe.
lmfao what? His dad was a gambler so he opened a casino? He doesn't give a f, he was just worried about his casino's gambling license
Terry seems like such a great and generous man, making this so much more tragic. Fuck those casinos for taking advantage of people like they did.
Finally some relatable content.
As a former poker dealer and a recovering addict, gambling addiction will destroy you quietly until it all explodes on to your friends and loved ones. Don’t ever let yourself get in too deep. All the best to anyone reading this.
dude just gamble in gta online its the same shit except no consequence
TH-cam commenters really like lying
@@EugeneBartholomewMcJigglebuttget a life
I lived in NV and worked in casinos for several years and was always amazed how people could hide and cover for gambling losses from friends and family for so long. Until that one day when everything was finally tapped. It never ends well. Take care.
A friend of mine blew 300 K in gambling. He now lives in public housing. He still thinks he is a good gambler. 🤩
It's sad because he actually seemed like a nice guy, the fact that he would win and immediately give out a large portion of the money is a tell tale sign of a good person
Or a drunk person. Maybe some cocaine too.
It also sounds like the behavior of someone is very lonely and wants to be loved.
@@maywalker997exactly what I was thinking sounds like he just wanted attention that he wasn’t getting while he was working so he saw flaunting his money around would get him attention at the Casino
Surely a good person but just shows how depressed he was. Many gambling addicts could use the money from a big win. This guy didn’t need the money obviously. He was gambling and drinking to deal with depression. The money if he won didn’t matter.
should have game large sums to people and not heartless charities
I work at one of Ceasar's casino's. It's very disheartening to see how people will willingly come and spend not only their paycheck, but also their savings and every last dime they can come up with to the casino.
At first, people come in with a smile. As the years go by, and they get further and further in debt trying to "win big", they don't smile anymore around here. Don't make gambling a daily thing, unless you're a poker star. It will fuck up your life worse than drugs.
My grandfather use to live out there and he told me countless times he had to give ppl money just to get home because they spent literally everything they had
Casino's should be held partially liable for their predatory practices. EDIT Wow I just got a gambling ad 😭
What a tragic story. He seems like a genuinely nice guy that just had a terrible addiction.
Hi folks, this story is 100% true, I met and served Mr. Watanabe many many times at Caesars in Vegas. His casino host and Caesar's management kept him liquored and drugged up all the time and kept him supplied with whatever he wanted just to get his money. I was in management at the time, and I did not agree with how he was treated but when I spoke up I was told that I would be fired if I ever refused to serve him anything he wanted. He is such a nice person and he always treated me nicely. I take my hat off to him for telling his story to the public.
Prove it
friendly mr. watanabe is an angel but the human world destroyed him :(
@@SashaSyrup001 prove it
Hey, can you prove it? Just asking haha
@@superwatcher456 Martin Habacher :)
What's ironic is that he could have started his own massive casino. I mean at some point you have so much money that gambling makes zero sense.
This is a great example of why money alone is not happiness. The guy had hundreds of millions but he neglected to start a family, have kids or establish meaningful relationships with other people who you would care about. At the end, you will eventually realize being able to buy all the expensive toys brings no fulfillment to your life and you will try to look for it in wrong places.
Can't Buy Me Love-- Beatles song 😮
The saddest part was that he originally started doing donations and charity work, and this happened to him instead :(
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Its not sad bro he was having fun
I actually think he's a good man, giving sooo much money to the casino' employees says a lot about him. I wish him all the best.
Same. You don't see other rich greedy ccksker multi-millionaires doing that.
@@henryjohnson-ville3834you don’t hear about them doing it.
he was giving stuff away because he was so drunk
@@henryjohnson-ville3834you guys are hilarious 😂
@@ArtVandely85 Plenty of drunk people don't get generous.
We live in a horrible and toxic world today and he find gambling a way to escape but sadly this comes at a cost: the moral of this story means to not take things very negatively
If you even set your one foot inside a casino - you've already lost.
I will never gamble. This is heartbreaking. They took advantage of this man. Abdicating his responsibility, but the gambling industry is completely evil.
I agree with him suing the Casino, usually I would say he chose to do what he did. But they obviously took advantage of a very sick man. It's funny how they only cut you off if THEY are losing money.
I worked in casinos, and it was painfully obvious the patrons that had gambling problems. And while the casinos claim they're there to help addicts, the truth is the customer had to approach an employee for help or info, we couldn't say a word. No matter that we could see it, especially with locals who you might see for hours day after day. It's a sleazy industry at the bottom of it.
Yeah, personally I cannot understand the addiction. However, I do realize it is something that people struggle with everyday. The few times I have played at a casino or bought a lotto ticket, I always lost. I always lose raffles too. This is enough to show me that gambling is usually a huge waste of money and to not do it at all, like touching a hot stove.
Manz, the unluckiest thing that can happen to you is winning on your first couple of visits - that’s what rewires your brain and creates addicts. If you lose you think “this is stupid” and never go again but if you win? Your brain sees it as a possibility, something easily achievable when in reality you just got lucky; you keep going back, and eventually you lose, but since you’ve won before you keep going. Nothing. You lose what you won prior visits. You want it back. You do higher bets. Nothing. You get a small win but it’s not enough to come back, you keep going, etc the cycle continues until you lose everything. Sunk cost fallacy kicks in you sell things you borrow money you want it all back and it just never happens. Its horrible. Be happy you’ve lost and thus can’t see the appeal!
@@TheGreatDetectiveKnows That is a good way to put it! I am terribly unlucky when it comes to that stuff. I could definitely see why people could get addicted if you consider the winning as your first experiences!
Addiction is deadly, in all its forms, and it's sad that a man who worked so hard, forsaked so much, and used his fortune to help many sick individuals wasn't able to help himself.
It is
Gambling is such a terrible vice. I cannot stand casinos and everything about it, the smoke, the sound, the floor set up, the fake smiles all around, and the smell.
“Compulsive Gambler and alcoholic” basically the vast majority of loyal casino customers 😂😂.
Although this man had a huge gambling problem, he really did seem like a good person at heart
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He was a philanthropist, and also gave money to workers who could've been getting payed with pocket lint and paper clips. I hope he's better now.
@@babycarrotz32 That's one way to look at it. He also gambled away his fathers lifetime of hard work. I could never just gamble away all my fathers money like that.
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@@1993j CEO at 20, worked relentlessly for another 20+ years, I think it's safe to say it's his money now. His only fault was not having a social life.
This serves as a sobering reminder of the dangers of gambling and the importance of responsible financial decisions.
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Crazy how bro was one spin away from winning everything back
This sadly shows that money and kindness don't guarantee happiness.
I agree that the casino should held responsible. The guy is constantly intoxicated, he's not in his right mind. Instead of stopping him and get him rest, they're milking out of him.
It’s such a big no no to overserve alcohol in the serving business, I wonder how casinos get away with the way they get people way too drunk.
at least around here you're not allowed to let obviously drunk people gamble or get more drinks.
Yeah that’s ok if it was just one night. But he wakes up and does it again and again every night. Can’t blame the casino for that. This guy ruined his own life and blew a opportunity most people can only dream of.
Yea at that point he has nothing left. They should be the ones with the problem then
Absolutely not. Terry was an adult capable of making his own decisions. Why should someone else be responsible for cutting you off? If you don't want to get into a bad situation with alcohol, don't get drunk in the first place.
He earned his money legitimately, donated to charity, most likely helped his family and friends live a good life and he was generous to casino workers. A guy with a good heart but without a purpose after he sold his business
Sounds like a scammer that is gonna advertise me a financial broker and stuff. Where are the other bots? This bot has a old channel that probably took a lot of money to buy.
@@menjolnowhat the hell are you yabbering about
@@etersoil24 Where I'm from they call him Mr. YapALot
The weird thing is that a $5 hand and a $5,000 hand in any casino game have the same odds and same enjoyment factor.
I’m here to cope my $100 loss. Thank you for making me feel better
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@AirrackVIogs why do you set up fake links
This guy is the real-life version of when Spongebob found that pearl and gave all his money away.
Isn't that the same episode when Spongebob become rich AF and pay the money for everyone but he ditched his friendship with Patrick only for him to get broke later?
If he stayed long enough they probably woulda renamed the whole damn casino to Terry’s Palace 💀😂
There are two things in life that will show people they have too much money: gambling and cocaine.
He sounds like an amazing and generous guy that was struggling severely. I wish him the best.
There needs to be harsher punishment for this type of behavior from casinos. They enable a lot of gamblers vices and they know how to put fuel on the fire.
He's a grown adult. He could have set a limit for himself on how much to gamble, he could have refused to drink. He did neither of those things.
@@TheRealCatofYes in the beginning, but once someone addicted they can't really control themselves anymore.
If he would win something and give 20+ bands out to workers he was a good dude at heart. Very tragic story. I think gambling is the absolute worst type of addiction one can fall into
This guy's from my city and I've known about him my whole life, this was surreal to watch
My dad used to do this, he would piss away all his money at the boat and leave my mother to cover all the bills. We were dirt poor growing up and I always wondered why. I would always ask him when he got home “Did you win?” “No, I broke even” there was never really a time where he won big. Looking back on it as I’m older, I think he lost it all every time. I remember one time he said he won about $2000, which seemed like a ton of money back then, but he unfortunately got robbed outside of the casino right after.. he was also a pathological liar, so
Wow. Yeah in the gambling world everyone "gets robbed in the parking lot". It's a lie they tell others because of their shame
@@scotland369 looking back on it, there was a lot of things he would tell us that I’ve heard a million times as an excuse from other people so I’m hind sight he was a terrible liar as well
From what I learned from this video... "Not all rich people are evil or bad",also even the best of us are vulnerable to certain vices or temptations.😢😢 god bless this dude for admitting his flaws and for being generous with his wealth to other people like employees. God bless everyone, we all got our weaknesses.
In fact, most rich people are not evil or bad, just as most poor people are not drug addicts and crooks.
Funny thing I got a gambling game ad before this video
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Poor guy, he developed a hard core gambling and alcohol addiction after quitting cold turkey being a workaholic. He had no real support set in place to help him cope, he seems like a likable guy who should get a second chance.
The casino should’ve been sued if that happened in Australia and I would’ve definitely been sued the fact that they kept serving him even though he was still drunk is absolutely disgusting.
sued for what because a grown man not responsible. he tried to sue the casino and failed if you was watching the video smh
Not this being recommended this when I’m planning my trip to Las Vegas at the same hotel 😂
i can't believe a disciplined man who worked 20 years tirelessly to build his own business could be lured by Casino's cheap tricks so easily...That is why a balanced life is important...he wanted to live a fast life for all those lost years, i think this was probably the main reason😐
Imagine being 20% of the total earnings for an entire company 😭😭😭😭
A huge casino at that.
I wanna cry when i hear his story cause at the end no one was willing to help him. But while he was drunk he would be overly generous. If someone is willing to be that generous while unable to think clearly it shows he truly had a generous heart. I hope he somehow predatory casinos like that place can be shut down and milked for every dollar they stole from people who were exploited there.
Glad to hear that he's trying to win it all back.
thats a very sad story, it feels criminal that the casino shelled such a large amount of money from Terry and kept him intoxicated during the time and drugged him up. Very sad to see
As a person from Vegas (still living in) , I can confirm we are all broke and in debt here.
Do you guys make up over 98% of the us debt
Why are there so many bots
Lol I live in Vegas and I’m broke too 🥲
I respect Islam, but why my comment?
@@NathanOrtega-jg1mm They're all bots. mindless. Made by Scummy people who deserve Nothing but the eventual taking of their life by time.
This was actually really sad man. Normally id be in the "what an idiot" sort of camp but he sounds like a really solid guy tbh.
Solid guy, minus the drinking and gambling addictions.
@@TheRealCatof yea obviously besides that
@@TheRealCatofyes, but he owned up to his flaws as well. Don’t see too much of that.
Is it just me or does Sunny’s videos all end abruptly?
7:12 *GODDAYYUMMMM.... that's worth REMEMBERING. I'm adding this video to my favorites!!!*
That is why I never go to Vegas alone. There must be trusted people around you, to save you from disaster...