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GAMBLERS WORLD: BIG WINNERS AND BIG LOSERS

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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.

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. Visit a top online casino

Greek tycoon Frank Sarakakis lost some GBP 8 million playing 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 slot machine at the Sahara
casino in Las Vegas in 2000. Interested in playing Aussie Pokies? - Check out pokiessites.com for more information.

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. There is also a chance to win big money online with roulette and other casino games at http://www.lesacasino.com/
(the online casino site of Les Ambassadeurs).

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.

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 Yorkshire punter 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.

Heating engineer Steve Whiteley won GBP 1.45m for a GBP 2 bet on the Tote Jackpot by corrrectly picking the winners of all
six races at Exeter racecourse on Monday 7 March 2011. The odds against this are a staggering 358,639 - 1.

Stable lad to Nicky Henderson, Conor Murphy, won GBP 1m on a GBP 50 accumulator bet when five of Nicky's horses won at
the 2012 Cheltenham Festival.

Unbeaten racehorse Black Caviar, trained by Peter Moody, had accumulated total prize money of GBP 3.91m for her owners from
just 22 race starts - as of June 2012.

POKER

Sports betting on the rise, but poker still leads the UK gaming sector

A new report undertaken by the market research company IBIS World has shown that sports betting is rising fast within the highly competitive UK gambling sector, growing at a faster rate than competitors such as horse racing, slot machine games and lotteries.
At present, sports betting is still only responsible for a relatively small percentage of the total revenue brought in by gaming, with 1.6%,
well behind poker games, but its current rate of expansion is likely to see this change. This also goes for other casino games available
on sites like luckynugget.

IBIS World indicates that the there are a number of contributory factors accounting for the rise of sports betting within the marketplace, including better product promotions targeted to the major sports events like the NRL and AFL matches, greater accessibility – via the internet and mobile devices, and greater cultural acceptance of betting on sports events. Indeed Sally Gainsbury, of Southern Cross University’s centre for gambling, education and research has argued that the link between the two has become normalised in the minds
of the public in UK.

“There’s been so much marketing it has allowed online gambling companies to really target sporting events and sporting fans. So now
on TV when you see someone score a try in the corner of a field, there’s a Centrebet post that they are knocking over,” she stated.

However, despite the inroads into the market being made by sports betting, the IBIS paper shows that poker remains by far the biggest source of revenue for the gaming industry in UK, expected to account for 60.2% total amount of gambling expenditure by the public this year. The increasing popularity of online casino sites, which provide poker tournaments, alongside blackjack, roulette and slots games, is seen as a big contributory factor in the ongoing market dominance of poker.

The report shows that the UK gaming industry as a whole is set to remain extremely healthy, despite the recession, with revenue of approximately $22.5 billion predicted for 2012.

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.

Former banker James Bord won GBP 836,00 when he became the first British winner of the 2010 World Series Of Poker (WSOP) Europe event held in London.

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