Big Winners & Big Losers

Monday, 05 February 2007

For your entertainment we prepared a list of people who won and lost the biggest amounts in the history of gambling. You can check how much some of the players decide to risk and how much some of them won and how much some lost. Check the recent updates items of the list to see the greatest winners or losers. Joseph Hobson Jaggers He is the man who is known for `having broken into the bank at Monte Carlo`. In 1800s in Monte Carlo he discovered that some of the roulette wheels were biased to produce certain numbers instead of giving random results. He took the advantage of this information as well as of his skills with the numbers and managed to win $70,000 the first day he played. During next five days we won over $300,000. He kept on winning and other casino customers copied his bets so in result the casino changed the biased wheels and send Jaggers home with a big and heavy payout. Chris Moneymaker Chris Moneymaker was `nobody` before 2003 when he shocked the world of poker winning $2.5million in the year’s World Series of Poker. Having as little as three years of mostly online experience, and having done an initial bet of $40 he managed to beat many of the poker’s famous figures and win the biggest prizes of poker. Pete Rose He is most famous in the United States. He was on the list of the best baseball players and won many prizes in mayor categories of sport competitions. At the time he retired he accepted to be lifetime-banned from the games because of some allegations that he made bets on his own team. Till now this case of one of the greatest baseball players of the world raises a lot of controversy, especially that in 2004 Rose himself admitted that the allegations were not completely untrue. Peter Swan and David Layne Two footballers of the Sheffield Wednesday team, Peter Swan and David Layne in 1965 made a $50 bet that Ipswich Town would beat Sheffield Wednesday. Their team won 2-0. The case ended in court. The court accused them and found guilty of "conspiracy to defraud". They spent 4 months in jail and were banned for a lifetime from English football. The ban was lifted after 10 years when their days of best playing were long over. Stuart Wheeler Chairman to the IG Group, a betting company and a multi-millionaire. In 1997 in General Election he bet on the Tory defeat and won. He donated to the defeated party $5million. Anonymous Slot Winner A 25-year old software engineer from Los Angeles on March 21, 2003 won the biggest slot machine payout after he put in $100 in the Megabucks slot machine placed in the Excalibur Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas. The biggest slot payout winner decided to remain anonymous. It is known that he came to Los Angeles to visit his family and to see the tournament of the college Basketball’s “March Madness”. He said to have put $100 and for one moment turned his head away. Next one he won over $39 million. Ashley Revell In March of 2004 a 32-year old Brit risked all her life savings, approximately $135,000 on one roulette wheel spin and won. She bet all her money on ‘red’ in Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas and went home with $270,600. Joseph Hachem The winner of latest (2005) World Series of Poker. The Australian citizen bet the largest-ever field in this event and went home with $7.5 million. Kerry Packer He was already a millionaire when he won over $20 million when playing baccarat during a weekend in Vegas. There is a story told that Packer asked a Texas oil man who is worthy $50 million if he’d “toss for it.” Andrew "Jack" Whittaker Jr. In 2002 he was the winner of the largest single lottery prize of all-time. He won $314.9 million in Powerball lottery. After having chosen, instead of 30 annual payments, a whole sum payment and having paid taxes he took home ‘only’ 170million.