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Before the COVID-19 pandemic began sweeping across America, Scott Richter would live-stream himself playing slot machines at casinos not just in Black Hawk, but throughout the country. 'I flip-flop between first and second place for the largest online slot channel,' the 48-year-old Westminster resident says of his YouTube channel, which boasts over 231,000 followers.
On the Big Jackpot YouTube channel, fans can experience the vicarious rush of Richter, nicknamed the 'Raja,' winning $100,000 on a slot machine and also losing $100,000, in just fifteen minutes.
But with casinos closed across much of the country, including in Colorado's mountain gaming towns, Richter has had to alter his entertainment model. Now he's started streaming himself doing another gambling-related activity: playing the Colorado Lottery.
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Yes, the Colorado Lottery is still chugging along, even though it has shut down its in-person claims offices. Instead, players can mail in winning tickets valued at more than $600. For tickets with prizes under that amount, players can go to one of the thousands of retail locations in Colorado that offer exchanges.
For his first live lottery streaming video last week, Richter spent $1,500 on thirty $50 scratch tickets, the closest he could come to playing the slots in Colorado. He and his colleagues from the Big Jackpot then spent an hour scratching off all thirty tickets in front of a live virtual audience. Richter won back a little more than half of his $1,500 investment.
Without live slot-machine streams, Richter expects that his viewership will drop to only a quarter or a third of the nearly 10,000 viewers he usually attracts. But those who do watch are engaged, he says.
'lol omg this is awesome,' a fan named Sherrie wrote in the live-comments section.
'my niece who's 6 can scratch a ticket better omg,' ladygirl99 commented not long after.
'It was really fun with the fan interaction,' Richter says. 'A lot of the fans play the scratch tickets and know better.'
Back in 2004, Richter and OptinRealBig, his 'online advertising business and marketing company,' as he describes it, were the subject of a Westword cover story by Alan Prendergast. Richter's critics back then, including Microsoft and former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, considered OptInRealBig a mass spam email platform. Lawsuits against Richter and his company eventually led to him paying out about $20 million.
'I have a checkered past,' Richter admits.
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But he's left those days behind, he says; for the past few years, he's focused on producing his gambling live streams.
On March 31, Richter hosted another scratch-off ticket live stream. He and his colleagues took shots of Crown Royal Apple Whiskey each time they got a ticket worth $100 or more, 'just to liven it up,' he says. 'We have a lot of viewers who have been bad gamblers, and actually watching us play keeps them out of the casino.'
And today, April 1, Richter and his Big Jackpot team have a surprise for fans.
Until the casinos shut down, Richter would go to Black Hawk every week to live-stream from the Monarch, the Lodge or the Ameristar.
Today, he says, he's going to give the fans what they want: 'We’re going to say we’re breaking into the casinos,' Richter says.
Which may or may not be an April Fool's Day prank. But when it comes to Richter, all bets are off.
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Scott Richter (born July 18, 1971) is the CEO of Media Breakaway, formerly known as OptInRealBig.com LLC. Other related companies are Dynamic Dolphin and affiliate.com.He paid $7 million to Microsoft in 2006 in a settlement arising out of a lawsuit alleging illegal spam activities. Richter was listed in the ROKSO top 100 spammers, but is no longer included there. His company once sent some 100 million emails a day. One of the most famous emails was the offer of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards in 2003; Richter claims to have sold 40,000 decks before they were even printed.New York Attorney General sued Richter in December 2003. Facing a $500 million judgment in Washington state from the Microsoft case, in March 2005, OptInRealBig.com filed for bankruptcy protection. It claimed to have assets of less than US$10 million and debts of more than $50 million. Microsoft's refusal to settle a $20 million claim based on Washington state spam law is what forced OptInRealBig to file for bankruptcy. Steven Richter, who is Scott Richter's father and President and General Counsel of Scott's company, commented 'OptIn is profitable but for these lawsuits.'He was interviewed on The Daily Show by Rob Corddry on 30 March 2004.In January 2007, his company Media Breakaway was sued by popular social networking website MySpace for allegedly gaining access to members' accounts and using them to send millions of spam messages appearing to be from users' MySpace 'friends'. Steven Richter, President and General Counsel of the company, denied the allegations.In 2008, CBS News reported that Media Breakaway was charging people cell-phone charges for supposedly free Ringtones.An arbitrator on June 16, 2008 awarded MySpace $ 4.8 million in damages and $ 1.2 million in attorney's fees against 'spam king' Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC, of Westminster, Colo., 'for barraging MySpace members with unsolicited advertisements.' The award was 5% of the amount demanded by MySpace. MySpace alleged that due to Scott, 'some of the messages were sent from accounts whose sign-on information had been hijacked by phishing.'Media Breakaway is the owner of Dynamic Dolphin, Inc, an ICANN accredited registrar who, according to KnujOn, is one of the few Internet registrars that serve the majority of spamvertised web sites. On November 22, 2013, ICANN terminated the Registrar Agreement with Dynamic Dolphin. This ends Dynamic Dolphin's business as a domain registrar. The reason given was 'material misrepresentation, material inaccuracy, or materially misleading statement(s)' regarding 'the registrar's failure to disclose that Scott Richter was the CEO, director, and Secretary of the registrar since 2012' and 'the registrar’s failure to disclose Scott Richter’s felony conviction'. ICANN has ordered that all domains registered with Dynamic Dolphin be transferred to another registrar within 28 days.Net Worth | $1.6 Million |
Date Of Birth | 1967-01-01 |
Profession | Editor, Editorial Department, Camera Department |
Nicknames | Scott Richter, Richter, Scott |
Editor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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What Once Was | 2016 | Short completed | |
Never Back Down: No Surrender | 2016 | ||
Smosh: The Movie | 2015 | ||
When the Game Stands Tall | 2014 | ||
Level Up | 2012-2013 | TV Series 7 episodes | |
Great Performances | 2012 | TV Series 1 episode | |
Katy Perry: Part of Me | 2012 | Documentary | |
The Playboy Club | 2011 | TV Series 1 episode | |
Tower Prep | 2010 | TV Series 5 episodes | |
Big Guy | 2009 | Short | |
Ben 10: Alien Swarm | 2009 | TV Movie | |
Midnight Bayou | 2009 | TV Movie | |
Who Do You Love | 2008 | ||
Make It Happen | 2008 | ||
War | 2007 | ||
See No Evil | 2006 | ||
Britney Spears: Greatest Hits - My Prerogative | 2004 | Video video 'From the Bottom of my Broken Heart' | |
ABC/TTV Micro-Mini Series | 2004 | TV Mini-Series short | |
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | 2004 | ||
Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love | 2003 | TV Special documentary | |
Disturbed: M.O.L. | 2002 | Video video 'Voices' | |
Kurupt: Behind the Walls | 2001 | Video short | |
Eminem: E | 2000 | Video segment 'Stan' | |
Kiss: The Second Coming | 1998 | Video | |
Closure | 1997 | Video documentary | |
Oasis: Don't Go Away | 1997 | Video short | |
Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | |
This Is Garth Brooks, Too! | 1994 | TV Movie | |
Metallica: Live Shit - Binge & Purge, San Diego | 1993 | Video documentary San Diego segment |
Editorial Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Footloose | 2011 | additional editor | |
Underclassman | 2005 | additional editor | |
Shall We Dance | 2004 | additional editor | |
Ella Enchanted | 2004 | additional editor | |
Chicago | 2002 | associate editor |
Camera Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Metallica: Live Shit - Binge & Purge, San Diego | 1993 | Video documentary camera operator: super 8 |
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Miscellaneous
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | 2004 | title designer: main titles |
Nominated Awards
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Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2004 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special | Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love (2003) |