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
Les
Ambassadeurs casino in London.
The Greek tycoon Frank Sarakakis lost some GBP 8
million on roulette in 1993.
Cocktail waitress Cynthia Jay-Brennan won a
record breaking $35 million on a Megabucks progressive slot machine at
the Sahara
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Brit 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.
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.
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 .
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".
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 online, the aptly named Chris Moneymaker became the 2003
World Series Of Poker (WSOP)
champion and won $2 million.
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. East gate is also
a very accomplished online poker player at the
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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 PokerStars European Tour held in Budapest.
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