bullet redCASINO
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 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
casino in Las Vegas in 2000. Looking for an exciting new place to gamble? Casino Bellini is Europe's classiest online casino, so you
too can feel like a high roller in the comfort of your own home!
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.
bullet red 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".
bullet redPOKER
Norwegian Annette Obrestad won the World Series of Poker Europe and £1,000,000 at the age of 19, still too young to play
Texas holdem in Vegas.
Within one year of leaning to play online poker, 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.
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 Budapes
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