The world's biggest gambler is
Japanese property developer Akio Kashiwagi, who bets $20 million an hour
at baccarat.
In 1990 he won $19 million in a casino in
Darwin, Australia, and a further $6 million at the Trump Plaza in
Atlantic City, USA.
Australian tycoon and legendary
gambler, Kerry Packer won GBP 7 million playing blackjack over a one
month period in London.
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The late Robert Maxwell reputedly
lost GBP 1.5 million in three minutes playing three roulette wheels
simultaneously at the
prestigious Les Ambassadeurs casino in London.
The Greek tycoon Frank
Sarakakis lost some GBP 8 million on roulette at the exclusive
Crockford's Club in London in 1993.
Cocktail waitress Cynthia
Jay-Brennan won a record breaking $35 million on a Megabucks progressive
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Ashley Revell bet his entire
$135,000 life savings on a single spin of the roulette wheel at the
Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas in 2004,
placing everything on 'red', and won walking away with $270,600.
Retail billionaire Sir Philip
Green won GBP 2 million in just one evening in December 2004 playing
roulette at Les Ambassadeurs
casino in London.
92-year old Elmer Sherwin
achieved the near impossible in 2008 by winning a Megabucks progressive
slot machine jackpot for the second time in Las Vegas. On this occasion
he won $21 million at the Cannery casino, and in 1989 he won $4.6
million at the Mirage casino.
Big Brother 7 winner, Mike
'Boogie' Malin, who collected $500,000 won a further $150,000 in 2008
playing blackjack in Las Vegas.
Mike Ashley, the billionaire
owner of Newcastle United, is the man who walked away from London's
Fifty casino in 2008 with
GBP1.3 million, won on the single spin of a roulette wheel with his
lucky number 17.
Bingo Jackpot - In 2008 a
53-year old won a Bingo
Jackpot that played in 470 clubs across the UK. She won more than 1,1M
pounds.
HORSE RACING
George Rhodes of Aldershot
collected GBP 86,056,42 winnings (after tax) from William Hill for a 5p
stake on the ITV Seven
accumulator in 1984.
Irish racehorse owner and
punter, JP MacManus bet GBP 25,000 on 8/1 winner Trapper John in a race
at Cheltenham in 1990.
Ron Nicholson of Bournemouth in
Dorset 'scooped' GBP 878,939 for a GBP 4 stake in April 2004 on the
Tote
Scoop 6, the
biggest payout in betting shop history.
Professional gambler and
racehorse owner Harry Findlay won GBP 1.85 million on an accumulator
(parlay) bet over a UK Bank
Holiday weekend in 2007. He also
collected GBP 1 million the same year when his horse Denman won at
Cheltenham .
Britain's most successful female
horse racing tipster is Ages Haddock, she won GBP 688,620 for a GBP 2
stake on the Totesport Scoop 6 in February 2007.
A Scot who staked GBP 300 on a
Lucky 15 bet at a William Hill betting shop collected GBP 200,000 by
picking the first four winners
at the 2008 Cheltenham Festival.
An anonymous punter in
Yorkshire won GBP 1 million from William Hill on an eight-horse
accumulator (parlay) bet for a 50p stake in
February 2008. Intriguingly, his first winner was named "Isn't
That Lucky" and the last:: "Dream Come True".
A lucky punter won a Japanese
record breaking 24,880,720 yen (GBP 175,484) on a Trifeca bet by
correctly picking the first three finishers of a race at Oi racecourse
in Tokyo in April 2010.
LOTTERY
Mike Wittkowski won $40
million on the Illinois State Lottery for a stake of $35 in 1984.
The residents of Alcoron, near
Madrid, shared GBP 54.6 million, the first prize in the Spanish lottery
know as El Gordo in 1990.
POKER
Within one year of learning to
play poker, the aptly named Chris Moneymaker became the 2003 World
Series Of Poker (WSOP)
No-Limit Texas Hold 'em champion and won $2 million.
Actress Jennifer Tilly won a
World Series of Poker bracelet and $158,625 in the 2005 Ladies' No-Limit
Texas Hold 'em event, outlasting 600 other players.
Writer and TV presenter,
Victoria Coren, collected GBP 500,000 prize money when she won the 2006
European Poker Tour held at
the Victoria casino in London.
Dane Peter Eastgate, aged 22,
become the youngest ever winner of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) when
he won the top prize
of $9.1 million in the 2008 event held in Las Vegas.
In his first major poker
competition, Will Fry of Nottingham won the top prize of EUROS 595,839
when he beat 531 other players in the 2008 Poker Stars European Tour
held in Budapest.
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