Turning $10 into $1,700 at Casinos — Full Breakdown & Transcript

How many Times can I double $10 gambling?

0h 23m video Published Jan 31, 2026 Transcribed Oct 3, 2026 Michael Fazio Michael Fazio
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"Delivers exactly what the title promises — a real casino challenge with a clear outcome."

AI Summary

The video follows a challenge to turn $10 into over $1,700 by doubling money at seven different casinos in New York. The team uses a mix of roulette, blackjack, and electronic craps, learning that discipline and knowing when to stop are key. The video ends with a strong anti-gambling message.

[00:28]
Challenge Rules

The challenge starts with $10 and the goal is to double it at each casino. Rules: start with $10, double your money, and stop if you go to zero.

[01:12]
First Casino Win

They start with roulette, betting on black, and manage to grow their money to $80.

[01:43]
Electronic Blackjack

They switch to electronic blackjack because they can't record at table games without permission. They struggle and lose money.

[02:10]
Realization

After a rollercoaster of losses, they realize the challenge is near impossible and consider changing their approach.

[03:36]
All-In on Black

They put all their money on black in roulette and win, bringing them to $150.

[04:49]
Blackjack Losses

They go back to electronic blackjack and lose most of their money, down to $60.

[06:48]
Roulette Strategy

They recover to $160 and then try a roulette strategy of betting on 26 numbers, which wins them $360.

[08:19]
Casino Five

They move to casino five and continue with the roulette strategy, winning enough to reach $580.

[09:57]
Craps Discovery

They switch to electronic craps, betting against the number 7, and go on a winning streak, reaching $500.

[14:14]
Generational Run

They return to craps and win 36 of their next 39 bets, bringing their total to $724.

[20:28]
Casino Six Success

At casino six, they continue with craps and reach $1,452.55, with only one loss.

[22:46]
Final Result

At casino seven, they try to record at table games but are denied. They end the challenge with over $1,700, turning $10 into a massive win.

[23:03]
Anti-Gambling Message

The video concludes with a strong anti-gambling message: the best way to beat the casino is to never set foot in it.

The challenge proved that with strict discipline and a bit of luck, you can beat the casino in the short term. But the real takeaway is that gambling is addictive and destructive, and the best way to win is to never play.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 00:28 Start with $10 and set a goal to double it at each casino.
2 01:12 Play roulette, betting on black to grow your money.
3 01:43 Switch to electronic games if you can't record at table games.
4 06:48 Use a roulette strategy of betting on 26 numbers to increase odds.
5 09:57 Switch to electronic craps and bet against the number 7.
6 14:14 Keep bets small and stop when you hit your target.
7 23:03 Cash out and never gamble again.

💡 Key Takeaways

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The Gambler's Advice

A clear, actionable rule for knowing when to walk away from a winning streak.

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Craps Strategy

Betting against the 7 with small stakes led to a massive winning streak, showing the power of a simple, disciplined approach.

14:14
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The Real Win

Turning $10 into $1,700 proves that discipline and stopping at targets can beat the house in the short term.

22:46
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Never Gamble

The final takeaway that gambling is addictive and destructive, and the only guaranteed win is not playing.

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[00:00] This is $10. And if you double it, you're $20. And if you do that just 20 times, you'll have over $10 million. But there's only one way to realistically do that. The casino. They profit billions of dollars every month by being fun.

[00:13] How is that even possible? Super easy. But there's one very successful gambler that has one clear piece of advice. If you walk in and you have $500 and you win $500, you're f***ing good.

[00:28] Leave. So, using Dana's advice, I'm going to try and beat every casino in New York, starting with Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino. Here are the rules. Rule number one, I start with $10 at the first casino, and I can't head to the next casino until I add a minimum double my money.

[00:47] Rule number two, if I go over like I just did, it rolls into the next casino. We're going to turn this $30 into $60. And rule number three, if I go to zero, the video's over and the challenge ends. So the first game to grow our money will be roulette.

[01:00] A game where players bet on where a small ball will land on a spinning wheel. If the ball lands on what you pick, you win according to the odds of your bet. Once we get over 60, we have to stop.

[01:12] We want to maximize the amount of money that we can win here. So I put 30 of our 50 on black. Let's head to the next casino, which is... Which is Turning Stone, where I'm going to turn this $80 into $160.

[01:26] Joining me will be Tim, Keyshawn, Brad, and Alan to assist on the decision making. But before trying another game, we wanted to stick with Lululemon. For now, we have to stick to electronic games, because you can't record at a table game unless you are making a huge bet and ask for permission, which we'll get to later.

[01:43] At least he's alive, dude. Alright, 25 on the line. We're good, Sam. We're good. And after a rollercoaster of stupid deaths, we made almost no progress.

[01:56] 50 red. 50 got black, you gotta ride it. 50 black. 50. Oh my god, that's bullshit. Down 50. But this made us realize that this is going to be near impossible.

[02:10] So we decided to change things. We wanna introduce this? This might be the most daunting Blackjack we've ever played. Yeah, I don't really realize one hand... Blackjack's a game where you try to get closer to 21 than the dealer without going over.

[02:22] Yeah, that's right. What's the last one? One hand. Yup. And of course, one hand turned into many hands, which almost all ended similar to this. I haven't seen this.

[02:34] Ten? No. Yeah. Yup. Damn, they're out. Alright. 24. It's time to go make this back in real life. But turning 24 bucks into 160 is going to take a lot of luck.

[02:46] We didn't go back too bad. We're up 3 bucks. Last 4? We'll take it. Nope. Let's go. We're on our way back. I think we're going strong on the ground.

[02:59] We got 40 on black. All 40 on black. All 40 on black? All 40 on black, yeah. We got 35 bucks left on shore. No more bags? No, baby. Come on.

[03:11] Let's go! Nice! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah. Oh yeah. That's it, Aiden. Let's go. Leave that one. And after two stupid $15 bets, we had to ask ourselves, what's the new $15?

[03:24] We don't want to go through it all. So we put it all on black, and if this lands red, then the video is over. Is that good? We're in art.

[03:36] Let's go. Let's go. All right, let's go. Is it black? It is black. Wait. 20 on black for the win

[04:12] Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Hold it up, hold up. Let's go. 150. Let's go. New? You see number 4? J58. We're gonna double this $150 to $320.

[04:25] But there's no table games just yet until we get into the thousands. That's when they'll let us record at the table. But instead of going back to the only game that's won us money so far, we made the dumb decision to go back to electronic blackjack.

[04:37] Alright. 13 against a 10. Alright we're down 25, let's do another 25, no let's do a 50.

[04:49] Oh 50! I heard the 5. I'm gonna say my mid-horse. 17. We're already down 75. 50. Oh my gosh yeah. Let's go. Let's go. This is obvious, that's ahead. That ended up being the only win for the team.

[05:04] Oh my gosh, yeah. Let's go! Let's go! This is obvious, that's ahead. That ended up being the only win we had and got. Down to 60 bucks. So we tried to go play roulette, but the table was still.

[05:17] We're actually gonna do more black bags. We're doing... Not good. ...not good. Not at all. That's... ...not good. Stamped. Don't give them the nine. You've gotta be kidding me, dude.

[05:30] And what's that, 25? That was 10. Now we're doing 25. Let's go. That is a real bet. We literally won one bet today. Great. Great. Nine against five. Should I double? Yeah. Cause then you don't do it. No, I gotta hit because I can't double because I only got 25 bucks left. Yeah.

[05:47] Nice Let go Should doubled Should doubled Yeah Let go 25 Give us your hand I think that a split man In blackjack, if you're dealt two cards of the same value, you can split them into two hands, which also doubles your bet.

[06:06] Wait should I... Stan, imagine I give him a 7 here. here. All right, we're back to 125. We're going $10 hand here. We're going to go to

[06:19] $10. Let's go, baby. I'm standing. We're good. Another 10. Another 10. After a couple more wins, we're back to even. Back to 160. Back to 160. I'll do 100. I will. I'll do 100.

[06:33] Give me a five, give me a five, give me a five. I can't. Should I stand? I'm standing.

[06:48] Give him a ten. Oh my... Now we're going to go put $10 on 26 numbers, which will win $3.60.

[07:00] If one of them hits, then we win and we head to the next 50,000. So we each picked five numbers, put them in Keishon's phone, and then put $10 on every number. And then we thought to ourselves, one of these has to happen. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Oh, we don't have enough.

[07:12] Oh, s***. Oh, my f***ing God. I got nothing. All right, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. We did 26. 26 degrees.

[07:25] And we hit it. We hit it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. We're up to 360. Now we're going, so that, that was our fourth casino, now we're heading to casino five. Alright, let's go. Casino number five, Resorts World, New York City, and Queens.

[07:37] Well, we're going to turn this 360 into 720. So, I think that that roulette strategy worked pretty well, and we're probably going to start out with that. Alright, let's go double this. But this casino was big, and luckily the electronic game section was completely empty.

[07:50] Let's do this. Yeah, same numbers as last time, last time you hit on 10. It just hit 28, so we would have missed. Thank God we didn't do that. Alright, let's go. Wow we got him in. Should we do a zero? Yeah max fit is 250. I get it.

[08:06] Not zero. 12? Yes! Yes! Let's go. Let's go. We have to double-throw to double-check. We're already up 100 bucks. I think we can do it again.

[08:19] Repeat last time. We're running it back. I'm nervous here. 21? Yeah! We had that!

[08:31] Let's go! This is 580! We only need 140 bucks. No you think? One last time.

[08:43] Oh! That's ok we can run it back. Yeah. If we lose this we are in trouble. If we lose this we're in trouble.

[08:55] Here we go. I'm nervous here. Alright. Oh my god! Alright, what do we do here? 80 on black. 80 on black.

[09:07] You didn't kill me. Yes! You would have hit that if you said I'm 22.

[09:19] I'm black as f***. No, it's not even. It's not even four times in a row. I like that though. I like that. Oh!

[09:31] It's not even four times in a row. No, it's never due. It's never due. It's never due. Nothing has ever been due. That doesn't happen.

[09:43] It's due eight. I've seen it less than nine times in a row. That's okay. That's ok, that's ok, that's ok Alright, we're back at it The game that we have not played yet, Craft

[09:57] I don't know how to play Craft, but the game apparently is going to look up some sort of method And you said here we got $2, so let's see if we can get $200 Alright, we should just drive, so you put $20 on here

[10:09] I don't know really what this is about in major, I see some junk We're good then You just lost $20 $20

[10:26] Ok, for doing I gotta go for $180

[10:41] I think you have to complete I don't know As long as we roll a seven we win money. Okay, roll. Anything but a seven. Anything but a seven.

[10:54] Ten. So how much can we win? We can do it. We can do it. As long as we roll a seven we'll stop. Okay. Anything but a seven.

[11:08] Anything but a seven. Eight. Eight. That's good. Anything but a seven. Anything but a eleven fifty-six. Alright. Let's see how much we're at. Two twenty-one. Anything but a 7. Anything but a 7. Anything but a 7.

[11:20] Anything but a 7. One more. Let's stop. Let's stop. We gotta get one more. Oh. Oh. Let's go. I'll do one more. Anything but a 7. Anything but a 7. Anything but a 7. 8. Slow down.

[11:33] You don You don prove that this is funny when you see white Yeah I know I would keep it right now 228 What We were confused on how crap actually worked But we knew if we didn roll a 7 we won money Whether it was or

[11:47] 20, 7 lost that time. I want to go back to that. I mean, $300. What? What? We're winning money every time. There you have it. Every time we're winning money. $300. $300. $300.

[12:00] $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. strategy is the cheater one last time, this is the last one one last time that one don't be just me we're down to 218

[12:13] all guys, all guys 8 130 130 there stop go to the front

[12:25] 8, 8, 8, 8 7 7 alright we're at 338 we should have seen the same strategy on the 3-2-1-3 anything but a 7 anything but a 7 anything but a 7

[12:37] again we've hit 3 7's in a row I'm not gonna ruin that one for you but after the back-to-back 7's it was like we couldn't roll a 7 if we tried this is crazy we're already done we're already done it's 52-7 we won 4-8 ok hold on I think we could have went back to the 0-1-back

[12:49] 3-2-1-3 we're already done we're already done we're already done we're already done we're already done we're already done we're already done we're already done We were at 345. Alright.

[13:03] Woo! Good pick. Yeah, this is actually wild right? You didn't win there. We tried to do it. There's seven. Whoa! This is insane.

[13:15] You were insane over there. It really was because we won 10 more bets in a row. And now we have 140, 60, 80, 100, 140, plus 400. So we're at 5,000. But that's not what we did. We stayed and we won 11 more bets in a row and worked our way up to...

[13:37] We're at 570 right now. We only need 140 bucks. We could realistically go put 70 bucks on it. Alright, let's do it. Why can't we do this before we get started? Nice, that was our time.

[13:50] So now we need 200 bucks. Alright, let's cash it out. So, Krabs got us from 160 to 500. Not a bad return. But from 160 to 500. We're going backwards with that strategy. $10 on 26 different numbers.

[14:02] We're going to do the same numbers as last time. Here we go. Rolling. Yeah, here we go. No way! That's why they always do the green.

[14:14] Wait, should I do it again? Yeah, you can do it. I can clear it though. No. Go back to Krabs. Oh, you're right. So we went back to Kraft and went on a generational run, winning 36 of our next 39 bets, which

[14:30] brought us from $251 all the way up to, we're at $670. We could go play $150 hand to black. I don't think so. Black, black, black. That's the best odds. Yeah, but if we do this and we lose, then we lose $140.

[14:43] We could go put $50 on a color. What are we voting here? Let's take a group vote. I vote $50 on a color. Kraft is unbelievable right now. I'm liking Kraft. I think we're hot on Kraft. All right. We'll go back down to ten. Yeah, we'll go back down to ten.

[15:01] We'll take that as a ten. You need twenty-three bucks here. Twenty-three bucks for the run. Everybody's gotta go crazy if we hit this. What the? Are you f***ing kidding me?

[15:17] Are you f***ing serious right now? You gotta do a B-plane. Well, you know, it's 20 minutes on air, so that's... No. That shot is so good. Four. Oh. Alright, alright, alright.

[15:29] We'll take ten, dude. If we take ten every roll... Yup. Snake eyes. Snake eyes. Snake eyes. Snake eyes.

[15:41] Dude, it's pretty lame. I ain't even gonna step in. Dude, it's so sketchy. Why? Cuz, it's gonna give us a bad one. I'm gonna go inside. Four, okay. I just want to see where we're at. We need to win 70 bucks. Not lose 70 bucks.

[15:53] Give us a big one here. Give us a big one. Three. Three's good because that's a double, I think. The 20s are so sketchy because you lose 140. Okay. Naked. Naked.

[16:05] That's a big win for 40. Eight. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. That one was sketchy. I don't even know how much we won that time. 5. I think we're good.

[16:19] Yeah, 604 plus the 120. I think we're good. I'll do it, I'll do it. 724, baby! I cannot believe we did it.

[16:31] I am literally blown away right now. 724, the craft prevails. Now let's head to our sixth casino and go double this. At Saratoga Casino. We're going to turn this $724 into $1,448.

[16:45] Potentially, this place is absolutely dead. And we were feeling pretty lucky. Okay, I'm going to be out there now. Yeah. I'll be there. So we went and sat down at our new favorite game. You're doing murder. I'm thinking instead of firing a pen, you do huge.

[16:59] $100 for an empty air duct. Yeah, I can fall for it. I'm up for it too. Dude. Oh, . Sorry, we only want 40 bucks though.

[17:12] What could we want for a deal? What's the deal with 25? So, we're hiring. Okay. Okay.

[17:24] That what we need Alright we already up to 900 We need to win 500 bucks If we don hit the seal he lose to 25

[17:37] I only won $4. $5.

[17:49] Woo! 25. Four. Yes. Holy . Oh, that's big. I recorded $1,118.50.

[18:04] It literally ended. Nothing. Recorded this whole video. Okay, three minutes. So, 325. Yeah, let's see 50.

[18:18] Five. So we really only won $20 there. I just feel like we're due for a step. Yeah. No. No. Yup, that's good.

[18:30] We need $200. $300. Oh man. But we lost the bill, dude. So we only won $4. Come on, give us a card.

[18:42] There's one $8 there. One is loaded. Money's money. We need $215. I'm gonna put $200 on every number. I'd rather do this, they'll put $200 on a number.

[18:54] You gotta figure it out. Yeah. All right, so we're gonna put an up on the number for the next 50 dollars. And if we lose, we're still at a thousand bucks when we come back. A number or do you mean like a color? A color, yeah, sorry. We're gonna go by the color. I'll say $215.

[19:07] And you're out of silver, man, so three dollars. Okay, you're gonna like it, right? Right? Yeah, I like that. You're gonna come back. It's never due. I don't know.

[19:19] I don't know. It's been three black in a row. Oh yeah. 50 for one thousand, no we need 20 more dollars. We have to get to 400. The hard part is over. Yeah. More navy. We need to get to 1,428. We need to get to 1,428. Okay. Alright.

[19:31] I'm gonna go to the main thing. We need to get to 2,428. Oh. Oh. Oh. We need to get to a little more of that. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

[19:43] Oh. Oh. Oh. We need three dollars. Three dollars. Alright, three dollars. Yeah, I got three dollars. What if the three dollars take us down?

[20:00] Our first loss of this casino. Ten through twenty-five on 33. Ten through twenty-five on 33. Last time, please. I don't know.

[20:12] I don't know. Yes, it's the last game of the season. $1,452.55. We only had one loss this entire casino.

[20:28] I love it bro. I mean, I'm a big bubble cap guy. I love the game. It basically changed your life. Now we're going to go ahead and do it. Hopefully, we're going to be able to play table games and record it. It's like 10 o'clock in the morning and we're going to get $1,500.

[20:42] So let's see if we can do that. Now we're at River's Casino, the seventh casino on our list, where we're going to turn this $1,462 into $2,924. We're hoping that this is enough money where they'll let us play the table games, but we're going to have to go ask the pit bosses.

[20:58] Plus, the first thing I needed was a player's card. Before we ask the pit bosses, that's going to be hard for you to record. Alright, so we just got a player card. Hopefully that will allow us to record. I'm gonna go ask the high roller pit boss if he still let us record two $750 blackjack hands.

[21:12] So we made our way into the high roller room. Is this the two $750 blackjack hands? The private portion? No, the portion. Alright, I mean I think... Alright, is this who needs to be right here?

[21:26] It'd be five minutes to start. And I'd go first, I just don't know. The pit boss says no. We don't even know what to do. So we're considering grabbing the other option here, the virtual blackjack. I know I might have to do that again.

[21:38] Yeah, I think we have to do Kraft. So we went back to Kraft, because we thought that if we got to almost $3,000, the next Kissinger would definitely allow us to record at a table game. I guess our clock seems to be changing. It's not broken like it worked last time.

[21:51] What are we starting with? What's happening? We got that guy. We got that guy. Eight. What?

[22:03] I only won eight bucks. What? Oh, this one.

[22:17] Yeah, I love them! Take the jump! Yeah, that's the other one. You got to add me $100. Yeah. Yee-haw!

[22:29] That's a $300. Dude, take the jump! Alright, let's try it. I'm carrying it. Alright, so we decided to end up trying to play Bubblecraft, which we went up to, and then they kicked us out of the casino. It's the brightest day of the year, apparently, so we were good to go with KFC, just hold us up.

[22:46] It's literally the brightest day of the year. This casino river was important. But I emailed the rest of the casinos on the list to ask if we could record, and every one of them said no. So I'm taking this as a massive W. We turned $10 into over $1,700, effectively beating the casinos that we went to, which was the entire point of the video.

[23:03] But the best way to beat the casino is to never set foot in it. So I advise you to never set foot in a casino and never gamble. It's addictive, it's destructive, and it's bad for you. Thank you for watching this entire video.

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