Betting your life savings on roulette

MSNBC
is running
a story about Londoner, Ashley Revell, who claims to be a professional
gambler, placing a $135,300 bet on "Red" resulting in a $270,600
payoff. Just in case you’re thinking that the $135,300 bet might have been chump
change to this high roller, it wasn’t. It was everything he owned. He even sold
his clothes for the chance to come to Las Vegas and put it all on the line.

The whole story isn’t out yet though. It seems he sold the rights to the
story before he even left England to a reality television show so there’s a good
chance a major motivating factor was not the gambling but the potential
celebrity.