Man bets it all on one spin of roulette! (you gotta see this)

[thwang99]

Saw this article, crazy. I wonder how much the average person has by 32, how much their net worth is. $138k I'd think is above average.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/08/people.bet.reut/index.html

Also William Hung's CD is out /images/graemlins/smile.gif

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001V1M64/102-9735696-6349743

- Tony

[neotope]

I would think that all his money on the Pass Line would give him better odds?

[Norm]

Why not put it all on one number, and go for being a Multi-Millionaire?

[Tosh]

Yeh its being covered on satellite over here.

[ZeeJustin]

Please update us post-spin!

[jasonHoldEm]

I'd pick 3....you heard it here first.

[Senor Choppy]

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I would think that all his money on the Pass Line would give him better odds?

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There's about 1 in 19 chance he's going to be wishing he thought of that sooner /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Lori]

I already posted on this on one of the other forums, but it turns out the guy has been involved in failed money making schemes in the past.

Having sold his middle name for 20k (Thanks Tyler) and a few other bits and pieces, I feel he's getting about 2-1 odds (And he probably has a chunk hidden away somewhere anyway)

Lori

[*Ryan_21*]

What a dumb fug. But I guess if he's gonna go through with it, always bet on black.

Ryan_21

[GrannyMae]

Yeh its being covered on satellite over here

please post results asap.

let's hope the st00pid fuk picks a single zero wheel.
(although that would make one HELL of a bad beat story)

http://bestanimations.com/Games/Dice/Dice-06.gif

[umdpoker]

my friend told me about this guy. what a dumbass. he must be getting some kind of payment from tv for doing this. i bet 10 days after he "loses it all" you will see him driving a bmw to his mansion.

[umdpoker]

the article says he is a professional gambler. this is certainly going to make it easier on those of you who are going pro soon, and will have to tell your family.

[paland]

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let's hope the st00pid fuk picks a single zero wheel.


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At this point, I don't think the exact odds matter. For one spin or roll, it comes down to whether you are lucky or not at that moment.

[Reverend]

As a wise man once said:

"In my experience, there's no such thing as luck"

[paland]

Then he wasn't a wise man.

[csuf_gambler]

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my friend told me about this guy. what a dumbass. he must be getting some kind of payment from tv for doing this. i bet 10 days after he "loses it all" you will see him driving a bmw to his mansion.

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"Sky will not pay him, he says, but a crew has followed his preparation and will cover the spin live on Sunday at the Hard Rock casino in Las Vegas. It also plans to follow him for a month afterward, win or lose."

[jedi]

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Then he wasn't a wise man.

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Well let's see. He was a failure as a teacher, his student's uncle thinks he's a fool, but said student goes on to save the galaxy after he commits suicide. I think it's a wash.

[Sheriff Fatman]

There was a programme on last week showing the build up to the event - mainly concentrating on him selling off his stuff.

Although he claims to be a pro gambler there's something not right when I watch him. At one stage he banked all his money, except for £600 which he kept back for poker play (in particular, a poker night he'd arranged with some friends). He ended up losing a chumk of it in the game and quit early.

This said 2 things to me:
1) Unless he's playing 1/2 or below then he was playing on a short bankroll.
2) His actions in the game showed he was operating a stop loss with regard to his money management.

Neither of the above suggest to me that he'd be a particularly successful pro-gambler.

I actually found the programme quite uncomfortable to watch. He held an auction for his stuff and his father was distraught that he was selling off a gold lighter he'd bought him for his 18th birthday - he ended up buying it back.

Why would anyone risk everything on a less than 50% shot? The guy is an idiot if he goes through with it - even if he wins he's going to have to replace his possessions at prices higher than he sold the old ones for.

The programme on Sunday is going to be fascinating but equally painful viewing I think.

Sheriff

[Prickly Pete]

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Revell, recently a professional gambler, said he decided to take a big plunge while he was still young and raised the stakes as high as possible, including selling his clothes.

"I like to do things properly," he said.


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I figured the Hard Rock would have a policy against nude men playing at their roulette tables.

[Jackal22]

He is going to be wearing a rented tux.

[Lori]

I shall be watching the spin, but he's not the same as the guy who did it around 10 years ago (and won) as that guy was reported after it was discovered.

This guy is the Dutch Boyd of London and has already had several failed quick-buck schemes.

I will be hoping the bet loses because I can't wait to see his next scheme in a few months time.

He is getting incredibly good odds here, as he either loses everything he has declared (I imagine he offloaded plenty to family members before announcing this) or wins double what he declared, plus double the 20k that blue square bought his name for plus I believe he gets paid if he wins, but not if he loses, etc etc.

Beware this man

Lori

[risen]

I'd shimmy my rented tuxed ass in between 4 asians at the Baccarat table and bet banker. Though the 5% commission would be a bummber, it's the closest to a 50/50 shot he's getting.

[Tosh]

Apparently he's not getting paid a penny by the Satellite channel but I find it hard to believe he won't make his money back, win or lose, or various deals.

[pretender2k]

There is a post on overused movie quotes. Here is a perfect place to use one:

"Stupid is as stupid does"

[Tosh]

Watched the auction of his stuff last night. Everything selling for like 1/4 of its value anyway.

He also got £20,000 from a betting company to change his name for 3 months.

[Lori]

winner.

Lori (red 7 I think)

[Tosh]

He won ? Bugger !

Still it gives him like $250,000, that buys him a 2 bedroom terraced house.

[Adde]

Of course he won. Red is the superior play when betting all on one spin.

[gabyyyyy]

Where did you get this information that he won?

[Adde]

Where did you get this information that he won?

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=625536&page=0&view=co llapsed&sb=5&o=14&vc=1

[gabyyyyy]

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Where did you get this information that he won?

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=625536&page=0&view=co llapsed&sb=5&o=14&vc=1

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I was hoping for an article or something.

[Lori]

Where did you get this information that he won?

The whole of Coventry shared the TV for 10 mins to watch it.

Lori

[gabyyyyy]

Article says he did it at the plaza hotel and not the hard rock.

LINK TO NUTCASE STORY (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040411/tv_nm/people_bet_dc_7)

[BreakEvenPlayer]

Get ready for the "Roulette Boom." I'm setting up a website right now anyone want to join me?

[Insp. Clue!So?]

Single or double zero, btw?

[Reverend]

lol

[Lori]

He ended up playing on a double zero wheel.

Lori

[Sincere]

Why would anyone want to do this downtown? Lets say you lose. After loosing everything you own, the last place I would want to be is downtown Vegas where all the bums are. You look around and all you see is bums and you start to think, hell I just lost all my money I might fit in here.

[Insp. Clue!So?]

Thanks...obviously that seals it, he's a pro for sure.

Going by the numbers (for maximizing % of a one-shot win), he plays:

Bacc banker
Bacc player
craps don't pass
craps pass

Followed by a long parade of sundry bets on various games, towards the end of which is...double zero roulette.

So he must either a) perceive a marketing advantage in playing the Mother of all Sucker games, or he really does have milled sawdust for brains.

Bacc, you might argue, is no stranger to 100K bets. That's just a good-sized toke for that Packer guy. It's a ho-hum bet for the Hong Kong shipping magnate crowd too. It's a real jungle out there in news-wire-land, so Bacc is out.

Craps...craps is so little known outside the US that maybe, again from a marketing perspective, he figures this is a loser after all the dumb explanations necessary to inform the world that "pass" means "win" etc.

Same general problem with other bets on other games.

So he's left with roulette. But there are at least a couple of single-zero wheels even in Vegas. He need not submit his entire bankroll to a double-barreled shotgun as was his ultimate choice.

So I guess he's just an idiot, albeit a pro idiot.