The last time I was allowed to play in Vegas with no bar is when I won, it happened to

be my biggest single session win. I won $11,526,000 in one session. What's up, everybody?

Today's guest is Mickey Mays, professional poker player. Mickey has won millions of dollars

playing the tables in Vegas. He came on to expose all of the ways that Vegas casinos cheat people out of money.

He gave us an inside look at what it's like to be a high stakes poker player in Vegas,

partying with celebrities, gambling with their money. Nowadays, he actually helps people get

clean from gambling addiction and uses his wealth and his reach to donate to a lot of different

charities and funds around the world. He has the craziest stories, you guys. And of course,

if you want to hear a bonus episode with them, go over to patreon.com slash the Connect show. Without

further ado, I give you Mickey Mays right here on The Connect. I just wanted to stop. I was like, what am I doing this? You know, I felt imprisoned when I was incarcerated. I felt imprisoned when I was homeless. I felt imprisoned when I was abusing substances. And now I'm imprisoned at my work. And I was like, I still haven't done life. That's when I see lights behind me start the flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it.

I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, hopped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank. It's like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive.

Mickey Mace. Is that your real name?

No. the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive.

Mickey Mace. Is that your real name? No. Okay. But Mickey is your real first name?

Also, sort of no. So when I was born, my name was Mordecai. And my family said, we have to Americanize it. So they picked Michael. And the translation from Michael back into Hebrew, because I'm Jewish, is Michael. So Mickey's short for Michael. And when I was really young, like a teenager still in high school, my goal was to be an adult film star. And I wanted like the dirt digler name and lights, you know. And I was thinking, well, what can my dirt digler be? And I said, you know, Mickey's, you know, people call me Mickey

a kind of already. And I was like, okay, well, I got to come up with a last name type deal. And I just, like, just like Marky Mark in the movie, I was like, like Mickey Mace, like Dirt Diggler, you know? And at that age, I was selling drugs and I was in the hood. So I was like, this is a great time to not use my full government name.

So I just started implementing the full

Mickey Mace as a teenager

and it in the hood. So I was like, this is a great time to not use my full government name. So I just started

implementing the full Mickey Mace as a teenager and it just stuck. So you were manifesting a porn

career from a teenager? Yeah, yeah, for sure. And you're from Jersey. I was born in New Jersey.

Okay. So you've got such a fascinating wild story. And what's funny is you're kind of living that now a little bit.

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