"The Luckiest Man in America" is an ironic title for the story of Michael Larson, the Ohio man who managed to win over $110,000 on a 1984 episode of the game show "Press Your Luck." The truth is, luck had nothing to do with it. Larson, played here by Paul Walter Hauser, had memorized the five patterns of seemingly random blinking lights on the Big Board, successfully avoided whammies, and took ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AM on April 2, 2025