Louis Theroux, Las Vegas, BBC2 now. (9-10PM)

ArmaniJeanss

May or may not be poker related, might be fun.

max_power

Just watching it now, the reaction of the guy when Louis told him it was 5.30 in the morning was sick!

zAbbo

4mil on the slots in 7 years, good woman

ha, no wonder she's your best customers.

HalfBaked

max_power wrote:

Just watching it now, the reaction of the guy when Louis told him it was 5.30 in the morning was sick!

He reminded me of IanMc in Vegas!

mewso

Hes playing Mike's favorite game. Lucky Lobster.

delanec8

LOL Degenerates!

LuckyLloyd

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TrueDub

I reckon a lot of that was staged to a greater or lesser extent. Some bad acting & editing too.

patmac

Did I hear right when the big roller won $5000 on the slots he said it was $3500 after tax, is this true, 30% of all winnings how does that work?

ianmc38

HalfBaked wrote:

He reminded me of IanMc in Vegas!

Lol. Coming from the man who had to be pulled kicking and screaming from the poker tables after 2 foodless and sleepless 30 hour sessions. As he said himself though, there's only one thing he needs to feed and that's found at the table....

kpnuts

musician wrote:

Hes playing Mike's favorite game. Lucky Lobster.

Larry Lobster.

Legend.

johnnysmurfman

And I spent the last few years thinking poker players are sick, how wrong I was. I actually feel ok about my poker now, the people on that show last night are some of the most twisted degeneates I have ever set eyes on. It was scary.

mewso

kpnuts wrote:

Larry Lobster.

Legend.

Actually I think he was playing Lobster Mania. No doubt there may be some differences that Mike could clarify as the Lobster spinning expert.

Hectorjelly

I really enjoyed this

joe_chicken

The old woman was scary:

Casino Employee: This is Rose(?) she's our most valued customer.
Woman: Hey, Johnny how do I work this gambling machine?
Casino Employee: Heh... It's Jimmy ma'am... Hold the Queen and Jack
Woman: O... What do I do now?

It was a fairly balanced look at gambling though... I thought the mattress king guy had a good slant on it...

He reminded me of the millionaire guy from Caddyshack.

And as for it being setup, I don't think so.
Louis just finds the strangest people he can cling to.

Shortstack

musician wrote:

Actually I think he was playing Lobster Mania. No doubt there may be some differences that Mike could clarify as the Lobster spinning expert.

It was the one and only Lobster Mania featuring Lucky Larry. The best slot machine ever. The sight if it last night on TV almost had me booking the next flight to Vegas.

5starpool

I was looking forward to them confusing Louis with the term "Whale". Pity it never happened.

bus77

I love the way whenever they reach a doorway Loius allways just stands there, even if hes being usherd in

hotspur

joe_chicken wrote:

It was a fairly balanced look at gambling though... I thought the mattress king guy had a good slant on it...

Is that what the whale Alan was? I missed the 1st couple of minutes and I was wondering for the rest of the show how he had made his money. I was also wondering why the 1st slots host guy with the old woman was a zombie but I figured Vegas casinos were just cost cutting by importing them from Haiti.

ArmaniJeanss

This is being reshown tonight (Saturday 16th June) at 10PM BBC2 if anyone missed it first time.