http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Karas
Archie Karas (born Anargyros Karabourniotis in 1950) is a Greek-American gambler, poker player, and pool sharp famous for the largest and longest documented winning streak in gambling history simply known as The Run when he turned $50 in December 1992 into over $40 million by the beginning of 1995, only to lose it all later that year. He is considered by many to have been the greatest gambler of all time and has often been compared to Nick the Greek, another high stakes gambler.
