Man gambles life savings on one spin

peeko

thought you degenerates would likes this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGCdBsOIKYA&NR

5starpool

Is this that rubbish that was on Sky One a few years ago? English guy, sold everything he owned and went to Vegas, tried to get a casino to use only red or black, then when that didn't work tried to get one to use only the '0' as well instead of the '00', and when that didn't work, just went for it. He

won

.

LuckyLloyd

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brianmc

5starpool wrote:

[spolier]

Nice one Dom!

5starpool

brianmc wrote:

Nice one Dom!

You are too damn fast for my edit Brian.

Ste05

Yeah, I remember watching that at the time, he actually had trouble finding a casino that would take his bet.

bops

fu**ing wuss - why didn't he just put it on 7??

latenia

This is actually the best system yet for roulette. At least he's getting an (almost) 50/50 shot at doubling up his entire bank rather than getting whittled down slowly by the house edge over time. Of course, this is provided he never plays roulette again.

ollyk1

It's the same guy alright.

It was actually a suprisingly watchable program. The guy thought he'd make a half million dollars (or nothing obviously) because he was worth so much but when he went to sell everything he owned he was in for a big shock as the realisable value of most of his stuff was less than 25% of what he paid for it.

His assets were actually pretty small in the end. He owned a piece of a family business which he couldn't sell at all (or only for a very small sum) when it got down to the actual practicalities of it. He actually ended up getting £20,000 from some online site for changing his name in order that they would get some publicity in the papers etc. So the figure he finally flips for should actually have $30,000 removed. He did get some serious EV into the gamble by both getting the sponsorship and the free holiday to Vegas etc. Based on those factors I'd say it was more akin to a 65/35 flip and to be honest I'd do the exact same if given the same opportunity at this stage in my life.

patmac

ollyk1 wrote:

Based on those factors I'd say it was more akin to a 65/35 flip and to be honest I'd do the exact same if given the same opportunity at this stage in my life.

You'd never get a casino to take that $5,000,000 bet.

ollyk1

patmac wrote:

You'd never get a casino to take that $5,000,000 bet.

LMAO!!

WP Pat!

Linford

ollyk1 wrote:

It's the same guy alright.

It was actually a suprisingly watchable program. The guy thought he'd make a half million dollars (or nothing obviously) because he was worth so much but when he went to sell everything he owned he was in for a big shock as the realisable value of most of his stuff was less than 25% of what he paid for it.

His assets were actually pretty small in the end. He owned a piece of a family business which he couldn't sell at all (or only for a very small sum) when it got down to the actual practicalities of it. He actually ended up getting £20,000 from some online site for changing his name in order that they would get some publicity in the papers etc. So the figure he finally flips for should actually have $30,000 removed. He did get some serious EV into the gamble by both getting the sponsorship and the free holiday to Vegas etc. Based on those factors I'd say it was more akin to a 65/35 flip and to be honest I'd do the exact same if given the same opportunity at this stage in my life.

I remember watching that series, his job at the time of selling all his worldly pocessions was "professional poker player", but he didn't appear to be very succesful.

It was a bit of an anticlimax at the end, the spin was meant to be shown live on tv but the casino wouldn't allow it. Apparently the reason behind that was they were going to let him win no matter what, as a loss would have been poor publicity.

bubbleking

rigged

gosplan

Yeah, screw that media whore.

I want to see someone seriously rich do that.

Or Brian Cowen go over and place all the first time buyers stamp duty on red.

HA Ha. Now that would be good.

Scotty #

A brother of a friend of mine got £300,000 redundancy a few years ago. He told the wife he got £150,000 and went to Vegas with the rest to put it all on red. He too had trouble finding a casino to take the bet but in the end one agreed as long as they could take some press shots etc.

He won.

About 2 months later he got a letter from the casino inviting him back to gamble and everything would be comped.

His wife found the letter.

hotspur

That guy later got a series traveling the world investigating gambling in different cultures with I think a £15k bankroll. That was an interesting series, stuff like a a board of numbers marked out on the ground with a chicken walking around it and you bet on which number it would crap on. He was a 100% degenerate gambler. Everywhere he went he would ask for advice from a local expert on what bets he should be making, but anytime it was successful he would decide to change and take his own decisions so he could lose. Also he was a twat.