Akio Kashiwagi - a Well-Known Master of Baccarat Casino Game

Ones become popular and known thanks to the gambling books they write and publish; other ones are recognized and remembered thanks to their unbelievable strategies and schemes they use during a game for winning. But Akio Kashiwagi will always be remembered as a baccarat player who was able to win the highest amount of money at this game as well as lose all of them and even more.

"The Warrior"

Akio Kashiwagi has got the nickname "The Warrior" from casino employees for his crazy passion to gambling and baccarat in particular: his bets were usually no less than $100.000-$200.000 per one baccarat hand and such enormous bets always helped him to win millions of dollars (or lose actually).

Akio was a Japanese investor who managed his own company Kashiwagi Shoji Co; his home and office were located in Tokyo and, actually, nobody knew exactly what kind of business this man had: it was called just "business" and that was it. But anyway this business gave Kashiwagi a hundred million dollars a year together with a billion dollars he had in assets.

Luck is so unpredictable!

The year of 1990 has become really crazy for Akio Kashiwagi as a baccarat player: in February he won 6 million dollars at Atlantic City's Trump Plaza Casino! It was really unbelievable luck and the biggest baccarat winning without a doubt. Anyway, the next trip to the same casino in May, 1990 was not as successful as the previous one. That evening Akio left the casino having $2 million in chips but was not happy anyway: he had lost in about $10 million then! It was his new record, but if the first one was about winning - this one was about the biggest single loss at the history of baccarat casino card game.

The End

Everybody remembers also Akio Kashiwagi's mysterious death in January, 1992: his body had been found dead near Mount Fuji, in his house. He was killed by samurai sword and in about 150 wounds had been found on Akio's body.

It is believed that the murderers of Akio Kashiwagi could be the Yakuza as he had some deals with them when was alive. Anyway, even after his death, Akio had a big dept to casinos: he owed in about $9 million to Trump Plaza Casino and Las Vegas Hilton.