How ‘The Joker’ Rigged the Texas Lottery

《小丑》如何操纵了德克萨斯州彩票

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2025-05-17

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A global team of betting whizzes hatched a scheme to take down the Texas Lottery. The plan was led by a London banker-turned-bookmaker and a mysterious professional gambler nicknamed ‘The Joker.’ The duo partnered with a Texas company and local retailers to print more than 99% of all the lottery tickets sold. And the jackpot was worth almost $100 million. The WSJ’s Brad Reagan explains how they pulled off the heist. Jessica Mendoza hosts.  Further Listening: - How an Antiques Dealer Uncovered a Massive Museum Heist  - Inside an iPhone Heist  - How Investigators Cracked a $3.4 Billion Crypto Heist  - Six Days of Chaos at MGM’s Casinos  Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Our colleague Brad Reagan grew up in Texas.

  • 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.

  • Brad tracks the news in his home state.

  • And recently, a story caught his eye.

  • A heist story.

  • Yeah, we love a heist story, especially here at the Journal Podcast.

  • We love it.

  • Heist stories are my favorite stories.

  • That's exactly how we were looking at this from the beginning.

  • And this heist story involved a lottery, the Texas lottery,

  • specifically a drawing that happened in the spring of 2023.

  • 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.

  • There's a woman and she's like standing next to like what this clear ball with basically ping pong balls.

  • bouncing around like a popcorn machine or something.

  • The first number is...