Archie Karas

Archie Karas, born Anargyros Nicholas Karabourniotis on 1 November 1950 and died on 7 September 2024, was a Greek-American gambler, high roller, poker player and pool shark. He is famous for the largest and longest documented winning streak in casino gambling history, simply known as The Run. He drove to Las Vegas with $50 in December 1992, then turned a $10,000 loan into more than $40 million by the beginning of 1995, only to lose it all later that year. Karas himself claimed to have gambled with more money in casinos than anyone else in history, and he has often been compared to Nick the Greek, another high-stakes gambler of Greek origin.