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Casinos love larger-than-life players who come in and spend copiously. These are the casino whales or high rollers. People who can happily drop thousands on each hand of blackjack or spin of the dice in roulette. As a result, you'll find the rules concerning in-house behaviour to be very different for the super-rich from those of the regular players. So you can imagine you'd have to do some pretty crazy stuff to get yourself completely banned. And that's what these three famous players did.

There are some great blackjack players. And then there are those who tower above the rest with their playing prowess and skill. One such player is Don Johnson. Over the space of a couple of heady years, he took the casinos of Atlantic City to the cleaners. In fact, he managed to pocket around $16 million. Though an excellent card player, he was also able to negotiate better terms from the casinos that were desperate for new business. These allowed him to achieve better odds at the games table.

With our Western celebrity culture and love of the rich and famous, it's no surprise to find great interest when celebrities gamble and lose huge sums of money.