Akio Kashiwagi

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Akio Kashiwagi a.k.a. "The Warrior" was a wealthy Tokyo-based real estate investor who supposedly had ties with Yakuza, and a wealthy gambler who frequented Las Vegas casinos throughout the 1970's and 1980's, . He was a big fan of baccarat. Unfortunately by the end of the 1980s, Kashiwagi had used up his casino credit, owing many casino executives, among them Donald Trump, millions of dollars. In February of 1990 made history books when he won over $6 million at an Atlantic City baccarat table. In doing this Kashiwagi put a significant loss in the casino's bottom line for a month. He did this while playing in Atlantic City's Trump Plaza Casino betting $200,000 a hand. Before playing Donald Trump and Kashiwagi made an agreement that Kashiwagi would gamble $12 million until he had either lost it all, or doubled it. The Warrior reportedly wagered at a rate of $14 miIlion per hour with this deal, and at one point was ahead almost $7 million. But in May of 1992 Kashiwagi made the record books for the second time loosing close to $10 million in six days. This time while playing in Atlantic City Kashinwagi unfortunately had a "freeze out" agreement that was ultimately aborted over a credit dispute. Media reports on the incident report that Trump triumphed to the tune of $9 million. Kashiwagi holds the record for the largest loss at a baccarat table in casino history. On January 12 1992 Akio was stabbed to death as many as 150 times in his home at the foot of Mount Fuji.