The Most Successful Slot Machine Cheat in America [#190]
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Today we cover the story of Dennis Nikrasch, an extremely skilled locksmith that worked as a safe cracker for the mob as a teenager then took his skills to Vegas where him manipulated slot machines to pump out sweet, sweet jackpots milking more than $7 million with out the casino even knowing they were being robbed. Dennis was an all time pro but unfortunately the same can't be said for the crew he worked with.
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| 0:00.0 | Hackers. |
| 0:02.3 | Lock picking. |
| 0:03.8 | Slot Machine Geek Squad? |
| 0:06.8 | Heist! |
| 0:10.0 | Heist podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello everybody and welcome to episode 190 of the True Crime Podcast without any of that gross, gross murder heist podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Simon. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm Matt. |
| 0:26.1 | Matt, how you doing? |
| 0:28.3 | 190. |
| 0:29.3 | 190. |
| 0:30.4 | Oh, man. |
| 0:31.1 | That's old for a turtle. |
| 0:33.0 | That's turtle old. |
| 0:34.6 | That's elderly turtle old. |
| 0:40.2 | It is insane that we've covered 190 heists. I know. Where is the time gone? I don't know. We were such young, young |
| 0:46.8 | whippersnappers when we started this thing. My, my life. Oh, man. But no, this is fun. And we got another good one. Not much else really to say. I got to see you this weekend, albeit for a very short period of time. It was good seeing you. We're doing this over Zoom, unfortunately, due to professional circumstances. But still, good to get on the ones and twos and do this. Yeah, always a pleasure to see you. |
| 1:11.9 | We got to hang, which is always the best. |
| 1:14.2 | And yeah, we got to do the Zoom every once in a while when we get real busy. |
| 1:20.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:20.8 | But listen, the people don't care. |
| 1:23.8 | All they care is, are we bringing the hot, hot, heist news? And the answer is... |
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