button in SafariChino Rheem, Sam Soverel and 'Scum' Pocket $2.5M on Slots in Two Days
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Known for battling at the highest stakes on the poker table, Chino Rheem and Sam Soverel took their action off the felt and into the high-limit room, where a two-day stretch on the slots produced more than $2.5 million in winnings.
But it came after a prolonged downswing — the duo had gone 0-for-10 on their biggest plays on slots and were stuck roughly $500,000, searching for a change in fortune… and eventually decided it was time to bring in another high stakes poker player, Rick Salomon.
Time to Call "Scum"
For Rheem and Soverel, the high-limit sessions weren’t some sudden gamble, as they’d been mixing in slot play during breaks from poker tournaments, picking off smaller wins here and there.
But when it came to taking real shots, the results hadn’t followed. By their own count, the duo had gone 0-for-10 on big plays, digging themselves into a roughly $500,000 hole without a single score to show for it.
That’s when they decided they needed, in their words, “the luckiest scum on earth” — bringing in Salomon, who they dubbed the “scum slot king,” to try and flip their fortunes.
Playing $2,500 spins on a 10 Year Anniversary Lightning Link slot machine inside the high-limit room at ARIA Resort & Casino, the trio quickly drew a crowd that included content creators Bryce Hall, Brett "Brettski" Stern, and Nick "On Tilt Nick" Splawn, among many others.
In a video shared by On Tilt Nick, Soverel — slot glove and all — is seen firing $2,500 spins before landing a bonus with six free games. He then activated the Lightning Link feature, where a $500,000 ball helped spark a run that filled 14 of 15 spots on the board, leaving them just one ball short of the $2 million-plus Grand Jackpot. The bonus paid $607,500, part of a run that saw the trio finish the $2,500 session up roughly $1 million.
They later moved up to $5,000 spins and saw profits climb as high as roughly $900,000 for that session, before giving most of it back, ultimately finishing that stretch with just a $50,000 gain. Even so, they still closed out the night up approximately $1.061 million, but they were just getting started.
$1.3 Million on the First Spin
The very next day, things picked up right where the first left off, but this time there was no drama.
Rheem, Soverel and Salomon sat down at a Phoenix Link slot machine at Venetian Las Vegas and got right to it.
On the very first $5,000 spin, they hit for $1.355 million.
Rheem shared the moment on Instagram, where he can be heard saying, “this is why I love Scum because he doesn’t want to wait!”
They kept playing, but unlike the day before, there were no wild swings. The trio stayed ahead the entire time, continuing to build on the win and never really giving anything back, finishing the session up $1.525 million and pushing their two-day total past $2.5 million.
Safe to say, bringing in "the luckiest scum on earth" turned out to be the right call for Soverel and Rheem.
