Brad Reagan
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I live in London now, but I'm originally from Texas. My family's still in Texas. All my friends, or not all my friends, but a lot of my friends are in Texas.
Heist stories are my favorite stories. That's exactly how we were looking at this from the beginning.
Get ready to play the Games of Texas for Saturday, April 22nd.
On the night of the drawing, they do it a little bit after 10 o'clock and it's kind of looks like almost like a cable access show.
Tonight's Lotto Texas jackpot is an estimated $95 million.
52.
And the drama kind of builds and it's like, one number. And the second number is... 30.
Two numbers, three numbers. That third number is... Five.
And then eventually you've got all six numbers there.
52, 30, 5, 18, 29, and the sixth and final number, three.
And then this lawyer out of New Jersey files a claim for the jackpot on behalf of his client. that is described as Rook TX. And according to Texas lottery rules, the winner has asked to remain anonymous, which is acceptable. And so this lawyer says, here's the winning ticket. My client wants to remain anonymous. Texas lottery says, great, here's your money.
The lieutenant governor of Texas called it something like the biggest theft in the history of Texas, which seems a bit hyperbolic, but I think captures the anger.
As best we can understand it, the story starts in London at a shop called White Swan Data, which is an organization that looks for gambling opportunities around the world.
We've heard stories that these guys will hear reports of a roulette wheel that's slightly out of balance in some obscure country and they will just go there and gamble and gamble and gamble because they're just looking for that slight edge. These guys like to operate in the shadows. They don't want competition.
They don't want casinos and racetracks to know what they're doing because the odds will then shift against them. So they often disguise their activities or they try to stay under the radar. So there's a lot about them that is not known.
He used to work for a big investment bank, did some other things, but he's always been a gambler. His dad was a gambler. He's always been interested in gambling. And one of the things we learned about him is that his father instilled in him at an early age, you only gamble when you have an edge.
Exactly. He's not only strategizing, he's crunching the numbers in a very methodical way. It really is more like Wall Street traders approach buying a stock. It's like they want to know that the asset is underpriced or mispriced in a way that if they buy it, more often than not, they'll come out ahead.
His partner is this guy, Zeljko Ranagajic. Maybe because his name's a little bit hard to pronounce, he's often gone by this nickname, The Joker. The Joker's, to me, the most fascinating part of this story. I mean, he is a legend in the gambling world. Some people over the years have called him the Loch Ness Monster because he's so rarely photographed. Wow.
He's one of these characters that people know about. A few people know what he actually looks like. He's from Tasmania originally, which I think adds an extra layer of intrigue.
One fairly simplistic way to say it is, Marantelli looks for the opportunities, the Joker is the money man.
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