on a Tuesday with a plan to put his belief to the test. Years later, in December of 2010, Carleo arrived at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino around 4 a.m. “If he could do it, I could do it,” Carleo says. The dealer slid forward the man’s winnings, a short tower of brightly colored chips worth $50,000 coming to rest where once there had been a single $5 chip.įor Carleo, the tale is proof of a belief that has always lived inside of him – as long as you have the balls to open yourself up wide to fate, there’s no telling what might come your way. To hit hard eight once was improbable, to hit it four times in row nearly impossible. On and on the man rolled, somehow avoiding crapping out – he hit hard eight again and then once more.

Carleo elbowed his way through the crowd to get closer to the action. It was a long-shot bet, but the man hit it, then hit it again, his $5 turning into 50 then 500. “I was sitting in a casino,” he says, “and there was a crowd starting to gather around a craps table, people two or three deep because everyone wanted to see.”Ī man was betting on hard eight, that the dice would land showing exactly four and four before he threw a seven or another combination that added up to eight. There’s a story Tony Carleo likes to tell about a visit he made to Las Vegas a decade ago when he was in his early twenties.

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