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0:00 Running an Illegal Gambling Den
0:45 Booming Business
1:40 Games in the Basement
2:30 Getting Robbed
3:18 Robbing a Game
4:20 Inside Job
5:20 No Mask
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"Most gamblers would rather lose a lot, rather than win a little" dude, so true
So many gambling outlets you can come out a head if you willing to take the small profits
@@ExplorationRandomDestination yeah but doing that in this small games would get you killed
So many degen gamblers who don’t know how to leave the table.
RIP to Michael K Williams. Truly a great actor and great human being. The world will miss you.
didnt know he died =/ rip
What are these episodes from?
oh man it's Chalky White from Boardwalk Empire
@MrAgmoore He'll always be Omar to me.
Yea was very sad to hear when Williams passed away .. he truly was a great person
I dont think we’ll get pieces like this for a while… RIP Michael. I have never seen an interviewer treat and get treated so well and respectfully by the bad guys lol
Yea, it's insane how not just Michael but most of Vice's interviewer could take so candidly with people who kill other, deal drugs that end lifes ect. And I like to think he didn't get into that stuff when he was at vice, cause not just him but many other vice interview's have to deal with being around drugs not just reg drugs HARD HARD HARD drugs cause that's what got the views and clicks I guess. And it's hard to say no sometimes. Been clean 2 year's and I still think about going back from time to time. It's a demon in my head and every addicts head that wont shut up or go away, Even with time. I now at 32 understand the meaning up, "Every day is a battle".
dont forget, MKW was a real one. real respect real.
these are the type of videos Vice built their identity on, would be nice to see more of this style come back..
100% cant beleive they let hamilton go.
Yeah now they have a bunch of flakes running around!
A bunch of Karens run vice. Look it up and there's your answer.
It’s from 2016…
@@markgalvez7234 exactly. It needs to come back
Man! I was addicted to amphetamines, opioids, benzodiazepines and gambling for 12 years ! Now been clean for a year!! Man, I lost so much money! Easily $300,000 on drugs and gambling! I regret it so much! Thank God I am now clean!! What a huge waste of money and time! 🤦♂️
99% of gamblers quit just before they hit jackpot
Bet you've got some stories though!
Nah don’t regret it bro it’s made you who you are today. Good or bad. Without even realising that lifestyle has taught you a lot.
Keep going bro! Congrats!! We need you here!!
@@Garagegarments lmao bro, if you’re an addict, gambling or drugs, and you hit a million dollar jackpot, you’ll lose again within weeks or months, guarantee it!! 😂 I know a guy who was a bookie, making $20,000 a week, but was losing it all in the casinos right away.
"for that paper, I'll knock Jesus Christ off, man." wild
😂😂 that's crazy
Jesus still loves him and cannot be knocked off. Im sure he still prays before his licks and when his stomach hurts and at thanksgiving with his grandmother.
Too wild
Creator still loves you
I mean it’s hard out here, 😅😅😅😅
I would find it hard to trust a private game, there are too many scumbags out there looking to scam there players
Exactly and how are you supposed to collect if you win? You risk being robbed or set-up again in the near future
I'm with you, I only play at casinos for quite a few reasons. Besides robbery there are way too many ways the private places can run cheats or collude together, I seen it myself at the one small stakes private game I played at (for fun) with people I'd played a bunch at the casino and taken stacks from ;but at their private game they never lost a hand and made zero mistakes. When I got home with the feeling in my gut that something wasn't right I looked up RFID cards and the first search result showed the exact POS cards they were using and I even asked them why they weren't using casino decks to which they replied the cheap cards were all they could get even though they run a regular game.....
@@RoCkShaDoWWaLkErRFID cards? Like marked cards?
If I'm playing a home game for money, it's only like $20/$40 for fun. I've been to games with people cheating and I imagine it only happens more, and in more sophisticated ways when playing for actual big money
Kind of like marked cards ;but they use RFID chips in the cards instead of ultraviolet visible ink, same technology that televised/stream poker uses to share card info for on screen graphics.@@PW.Skyline.V37
dude at the end seems like a stand-up, law abiding citizen
You think so? Seems like he has autism
RIP Michael K William aka Omar, still crazy he passed. miss his documentaries
The real og
2:30 Omar asking if the game got robbed...Marlo pissed 🤣🤣🤣🤣
These guys seem like they are actually proud of their robbery. Geez
You wouldn't be proud of coming up on 140g's?
In that scenario? Absolutely not.@@MasterOctagon
That's his profession, robbing criminals. You realize the whole country loves Omar who was a portrayal of that exact type of person?
@@MasterOctagon why talk about it on camera in a mask and act like undercovers can't tell he's Dominican or Borica. A sharp cop will be able to identify him though the mask and connect dots. He said he clapped someone 5 times. He's connecting dots like a big dog for law enforcement. He better hope that victim survived. Real Bad boys move in silence.
People love Omar for his character, not his criminal behavior. And not all professions are honorable. Even some of the so called "legit" ones.@@twinkslammer
You pay tax to the right people then you shouldn't ever get robbed. Also RIP to Michael K Williams
Bro watched the sopranos once
except dumb ass like the 2 at the end gonna hit the place and end up dead the next day, still got robbed.
such a nice gentleman he interview at the end. truly a man we should all look up too!
😂😂
black activities
one of the most interesting videos you have put out and it's super short. These are the ones that should be 40 minutes long.
Episodes been out for awhile
I played in gambling houses for years and even ran one. Its a very lucrative business. I was there when a place got hit. 3 guys got away with over 100k cash. Never caught them.
Who loses? Does the game lose because the buy-in was stolen or the players?
@@Andrew-ig5spAre you dumb? You think the owners are just going to drive to their house and get 100k while police could be waiting since someone might have dialed 911... Of course the players lose everything, owners get out of there the minute after the robbery and workers probably get paid if they work another gig.
I'm wondering the same thing as the first guy, did your gambling house pay the players out, or did the players have to take the loss on the chin?
@@itsafractal.7770players take the loss on the chin obviously but the house also loses because the buy-in is taken and the reputation is hurt very badly ruining future revenue
Loser.
he said for that paper he'd knock jesus christ off LOL
JC anklepicks his azz all day
Nothing Funny about a SCUMBAG Ninja like that!!!
lmao holy these guys are demons
6:09 "For that paper, I'll knock Jesus Christ off man" 😂
What a wonderful human being
On my mama that sounds like a Freddie Gibbs/Benny the butcher verse 😭😂
“Most of these guys would rather lose alot then make a little” this is so true, everytime I would start out with small bets win a bit of money and absolutely not care about a few thousand because it felt like nothing and then I would lose it all not really care but deposit more and more until it spiraled out of control
Gambling addiction. Have you taken the 20Q?
The lengths people will go to, not to work is astonishing.
Yup! They will literally do anything for money except get a job. I always offer homeless people cleaning jobs at my business like cleaning the parking lot or washing the windows for $20, but they want handouts not jobs
@olivergarcia4259 It's wild. I get paid a decent salary and if you offered me some money to clean windows etc. on my days off, I would gladly do it.
running a home game is very much work. also work blows.
@@jonathansykes4986 Pretty sure he is referring to the hood scum in the video that proudly admit to robbing people. There's no shame in it for gamerunners, they take the risk and get compensated for it, just b.s. the government can tell us how to spend our money.
Did we watch the same video, this is not about working but gambling…
That ending was dark.
"I'm gonna knock you out, Momma said knock you out". Jesus get over here!
Back when Vice actually made good videos!! The days of Vice being good has been long gone.
wdym "back when vice made good videos"? this realised today
@@mekanicthe3rdthis is an older doc
@@mbuzzy8953You sure? Doesn’t look old at all.
I could have a bunch of guys put masks on sit in a basement telling stories and film it too. The only difference is i'm not Michael K Williams and I don't work for VICE so you probably wouldn't believe it lol. This is dry and terrible content
@@MikePerryLegityea I’m sure. I’ve seen it years ago. Also Mike Williams died almost three years ago. This ain’t new.
To the robbers saying. Players cannot call the police. Is wrong. They actually can.
that would bust the person running the games too tho. If they're addicted enough, they wouldn't want to compromise that
It's not just gambling, there's drugs , women, and guns in these places
& then put your face on the internet for the whole world to see.
@@geoterra9478 They literally said if you're a "player" it's fine...
@@yourface3154 is it really fine though because I know if I was running $1 million operation and one of my players wanted to call the police when we had guns drugs and women all in my hidden illegal club he probably wouldn’t leave the building that night especially if I’m involved with bad people already
Would love to see more about poker in New York
So many casinos now would never put myself in that situation it would be in the back of your mind could play correctly
Most of it is really quite kosher, safe places raking an honest con from rich businessmen with nowhere else to play. It's the rooms where crime money changes hands where violence is an issue.
I like the thought of grinding the underground games of NYC... Online by day ...live by night...
@@reddoordentrainingcenter8564 The rakes are unbeatable. Customers pay for the experience. Don't bother trying to be a winning player
@benjaminadler2001 Yes I played in the nicer Manhattan spots in the early 2000s. The games were legit always got paid out. The cops did a city wide sweep one night and shut down all the rooms. That sucked but no charges just lost the money I had on the table.
I still don't understand why gambling is illegal like this. That's like saying sports betting is illegal or betting with a friend. How tf you gonna tell us what we can and can't spend our money on. Just mad they can't tax it.
sports betting is illegal in multiple states
you just answered your own question... " just mad they cant tax it."
@@erickberg5641 in my state california, they put it to vote whether to start allowing sports betting at least in native american lands and the voted the population voted against it.
@@KirstaRunner I'm from New York and they just legalized sport gambling and now it is extremely popular with online companies literally giving you money to start betting. New York is doing so bad with revenue they couldn't resist legalizing. California is in the same boat yet New Yorkers didn't vote on legalizing sport gambling, the government just decided to.
Poker home games are legal as long as the house doesn’t take a rake
Reminds me of the Dave Chapelle World Series of dice skit when Rodney “Quills” Dinkins robs everybody 😂
where do u think they got it from
He went from ashy to classy
Put those cameras in a box..
The fact that this is “illegal” because the government doesn’t get their cut simply proves we are not free as Americans lol
You won the award for the dumbest comment on this video.
It's all about the money. Same thing with drugs. By making it illegal, it just makes it more dangerous for the addict. You would have thought we would learn something from the Volstead Act.
Do you want freedom or do you want anarchy? You have the freedom to open up a casino, as long as you have the correct paper work & regulations. In many other countries, you can't even do that.
@@OrangeYTT I’d take anarchy over “freedom” any day of the week considering police officers are just government cronies who don’t actually prevent real crime such as murder, rape, theft
@@Handlebusiness881 easy thing to say from the comfort of a functioning society. I suppose youd prefer gang warlords and child soliers?
That security guard on the last one is like chill bro i still work there my man 🤣
“For that paper I’ll knock Jesus Christ off man” DAMN 😨
Dude Aint Playing. With Absolutely Nobody! He prolly set up his own mama
😭dawg
Jesus christ is impervious to bullets.
He gonna regret that one on judgment day
@@anthonylombardo4829 dude no one cares
😂 @ 2:30 Hilarious how Omar is asking dude how it feels to get robbed.
$100 bonus lol
🤣
yeah 100 worth of crack XD
RIP to the realest! 😢
RIP Omar
Never thought I’d see Omar saying yes sir to some robbers
the real omar little was alive on the wire. he was omar's stick up partner in the series.
3:31 Lol bruh this reporter on Vice was the chosen one to go into these places nobody else would go 🤣🤣"Tonight we meet up with people who rob"
He was a famous actor and he was actually from Brooklyn, he die a couple years ago, he was well known in the streets too
Boardwalk Empire
@@MrAgmoore The Wire first. His character literally robbed poker games among other things.
Most guys would rather lose alot than win a little.truer words never spoken for gamblers. I felt that..
If you win let`s say 1k in a poker game and in the last hand lose 700 back... it feels worse than straight up losing 500 and quitting .. hard to explain to someone who doesn't gamble..
in poker, we call this upstuck. the feeling of breaking even after 7 hours when you are down in the first hour is a much better feeling than winning dollars at the end when you were up a lot more dollars@@iLikeBhr
Michael Williams in The Wire said "Either play, or get played" and the guy at the end said "Either you're going to die or I'm going to die." He was the character he played in the show.
Love this episode
This is some old ass footage. Think I saw this ten years ago.
This is the Vice I grew up watching
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
Nah the ending line is crazyyyyy lmfaooooo
That dude in the end is gonna be in the mud soon
I can’t imagine being addicted to that lifestyle. I guess it’s hard for me to imagine how I could be addicted to gambling. Even if I won big I’d think I got lucky and be done that day and for good.
Its really easy to look externally, but gambling preys on how your brain processes rewards. The brain is conditioned to chase highs and shrug off losses.
robbers who do interviews are the best 🤣
My man at the beginning was sweating like crazy!!! Them uppers hittin
Money ain’t got any owners, just spenders!
Just imagine running an underground gambling spot and hiring someone to rob it and giving the robbers a cut 💵💵💵
It’s happened for sure.
my cousin from Dehli did that in LA during the 90s, then he laundered the money by opening some tech firm around the bay area. Now he's retired at 46 and just makes love with beautiful slavic women in a croatian villa he owns, lol.
@@IrishIwasJewish lol damn
Amazing work and a view into a crazy world
The detective at 0:49 was a professor of mine when I was in college, amazing guy.
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💐R.I.P Michael K. Williams 💐 1/11/24
The dude that played the best stick up kid of all time interviewing stick up kids - reality is wonderful
love your videos Vice
Rest in peace Michael K. Williams…
Is this what was under that synagogue?!? /s
Was a dealer at the original “PlayStation” in Manahatten, I was also a dealer at the “ River” in Hicksville LI
that last statement... i'll be praying for you
Atlantic City is not that far away from NYC. Why not just go there, if you are playing with a lot of money, and get a hotel room for a night or two. Easy access to restaurants and bars too in those casinos and tight security.
because atlantic city is a shithole
Where’s the thrill in that lol
It's over 100 miles away.
Love how Omar Little interviewing some fellow stick up artists lol... RIP Michael K Williams, truly one of a kind!
that last line will haunt him
In the beginning showing spots in Jersey talking about gambling dens of NYC, yeah I guess IYKYK!
When are y'all doing the tunnels of Brooklyn?
It seems like they have scaled down operations since VICE ran into financial woes. Most of the stuff being posted is reruns and clips from Viceland shows.
When you have nothing to live for, you have nothing to die for. that’s why if you want to survive in this world, you have to profile. On the streets, in your business, at your job, at the tables, profile profile profile.
“Hey! I’m gamblin over here!”
After that bar was Dardy bar I used to bartend there. Never knew that went down in the basement haha
No bullshit… I went to an after hours uptown and they had a table with a game going, a craps table, 2 slot machines, and a fully stocked bar and bartender… lol 😂 I am so fucking serious… I went there at like 5am to meet up with someone for a different but also illegal thing and ended up staying till like 7am and learning about a game going on on a block I’ve walked down a bunch of times before and had no idea about 😮
A little coca cola...
The fact that we get free videos from VICE TV on KZhead is priceless, keeping the education and knowledge alive. 🙏🙏🙏
Would love for those guys to come try to rob a poker game in Houston Texas 😂
Same in Tennessee where I live. I’ve witnessed guys losing 70k+ in PLO at home games…
Omar once robbed a gambling spot in the exact way the dude described he was hit 😅
no wonder "aiight bet" came out of new york
"He got what was coming to him." That's an interesting assertion. Does he think that death was a suitable "what's coming to him" for reluctance to follow the instructions?
Yooo the guys talking was my teacher at college🤣
I'd love to go to a low stakes game like this but they probably don't exist.
They do but the house still wins and there is a chance you get robbed or killed after winning
Friend games I used to play in them like $50-100 cash games
Sure they do! I run one! It's legal, and professionally-operated though...not like these f-ing hackjob wannabe gangsters. lol 🤦♂ Their table is pretty sweet, though. I'll give em that.
define low stakes. they def exist wherever u are
@@byllynallee9238I go to many low stakes games…they are not worth the time or risk to get robbed. We’re talking a few thousands max, maybe $10k
i play at about 5-10 undergorund poker clubs in long island new york... they getg raided more than they get robbed but im guessing in nyc thatds a lil different
Wait is that cop being interviewed in the booming business part... Steve from big brother
“For that paper, I’ll knock off Jesus Christ” *he will never regret such a sentence in his existence*
Easy rob me for nothing. My games, the guys wire me everything.. you get wired the cash back when u cash out. Nothing happens
Must be low stakes cause after amounts over 10k you gonna have the IRS knocking
probably the dumbest best idea i ever heard
@@Funk1880 lol, no. I make 150+ wires a year, bud...nobody comes knocking, nobody asks why.
@@Funk1880 just depends who wants to play. I’m not a whale, but I host anywhere from 5/10 to my biggest game 100/200.. that was only 5 players tho lol too big
Interesting, but that leaves a paper trail and could lead to your bank flagging you?
"im going from ashy to classy".... the beginning to end sounds like chappelle's world series of dice but real
I’ve always wondered, once robbers end up shooting someone do they clear out because of the noise and stuff or do they finish gathering everything and take their time?
"No mask means you're gonna get shot". The skinny robber was the smart one of the two.
He cappin. Not gonna snitch hiself out that easy in front of the camera
@@joshuawesling8212 say it to his face.
If you walk in to a poker game, and you don’t know who the sucker is… you’re the sucker 😅. Not everyone in that room got robbed
you're a sucker
Someone help me understand. Why would you gamble in a drug den where you can be easily robbed when many states have casinos with luxury experiences and no threat of death?
I could only imagine how many illegal gambling rings there are in nyc... I live in a midwest city & plenty go on here
By showing the top floor of the establishment VICE just shared with the world the location of the illegal gambling. WTF??
The one they showed no longer has it, is the thing
I think that's the whole point of these interviews. It's a huge operation
It's fake bro
Vice is always dry snitching on people, that's nothing new. Sure they hide faces and voices ;but reveal enough background information to put the pieces together.
@DonJuilo-xo5vm No it's not these places are all over NY queens Manhattan and long Island been to plenty
Dude at the start who called up to reserve a seat, sold his friend out for a $100 is ruthless
ahhhh going back to your roots, good
Poker underworld is wayy bigger than what you would believe
Of course the robbers are the type of people you'd expect
that's racist. the biggest robbers of the world are white, middle-upper age, males.
Comments like this are why I never take what white people say at face value
They definitely robbed his shi soon as the video ended 😂
Goon said “for that paper I’ll knock Jesus Christ off” sheeshhh super demon work smh he probably not on this earth by now
5:52 we found 50 cents shooter 😮
I couldn’t imagine robbing a game, the underground games I go to are smaller (10-20k on the table) and everyone’s packing.
Same. He wouldn’t make it through the door.
@@jacobpotter2237 plus they make the games seem so “shady” but in reality it’s just a bunch of people who know eachother from playing in other rooms/charity rooms/ and casinos 😂
The robber with the mask is gonna get it. Easy to see who he is.
Rat of a human being.
Na he safe cuz he made up every bit of that. Didn't believe a word he said😂
have to say this is way better then whats going on "underground" in NYC rn ;)
You can walk into any legal casino with an ATF jacket, badge n clipboard n theyll happily let you in the back n show you whatever you ask for
In the dream world surr
@@AnImperfectTheory Obviously you cant dude ... This is a Whiteman mission
The most money I ever lost at one time was just north of $12k. I lost it all in one night online playing blackjack and roulette. The next day I called them and had my 14 year old brother get on the phone and say he was using my account and thought it was play money. They refunded every penny back and then banned my account. 20 years later and I still can’t believe I got away with that.
U didn’t lmao,they banned you lol for a reason
@@guielescobar2269 who cares about being banned on an online casino if that means you get you’re 12k that u lost back? That’s a dumb thought bro lol
Talk abt being lucky!
Gotta love Michael K Williams interviewing real stick up men! Rest in peace 🙏
These are all over Melbourne Australia too.
If you see poker as gambling then it simply isn't your game
exactly what i thought
I play poker as a side income, have been winning for 12 years. It's gambling. You can be gambling with an advantage, but it's still gambling. Can i take from your assessment, that, in such a situation, where there is a coin that has a 51% chance to land on heads, that betting on it landing on heads would not be gambling? Because it definitely is, it's just gambling with advantage. That's all a good poker player is doing, albeit a more active process maintaining an advantage. Something a recreational player just isn't capable of usually, because they tend to be competing with players who are playing as a way of earning money, not just for fun occasionally, or during a time where they need to make some quick cash. So for most players, it's full blown gambling, this includes players who will eventually be good, but have only just started, so they're not very good at it yet (most people think this is them, but in reality, it's shockingly few people that ever get any good, the game is ludicrously complex). For the few players who win, it's gambling with an advantage. Definitely gambling though.
@@itsafractal.7770 Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Players who know what they are doing use a strategy that enables them to win in the long run. But yeah, the outcome on the short term is still partly random.
6:09 dude come on. It's Just money. For things. Stuff. It isn't worth it. It's not too late... save yourself... repent your sins... be a good person.
I dont even believe in god an that shocked me, I dont wanna judge because i dont know what that guy had to go through in his life to turn out that evil but i hope he gets help, thats insane to even say on camera but you can see it in his eyes, not much empathy or life goin on their.