The jackpots in the world’s biggest lotteries already exceed a billion dollars. Of course the odds of winning such a sum are catastrophically small – there are a lot of factors that come into play, the most important of which is the luck of the player himself.
In the casino subsections of the same people win much more often. We decided to compile the top 5 largest wins in the most famous gambling and card games: roulette, baccarat, poker, blackjack and slots.
Roulette – 3 million pounds
The classic mechanism, invented back in the 18th century, was taken up in the era of casino development. The game is a spinning game wheel, divided into 37 equal parts. Thirty-six of them are evenly divided into black and red, and the last cell is colored green. Before the roulette wheel rotates, players can bet on which sector the croupier’s ball will fall into.
Sir Philip Green, the owner of TopShop and TopMan, in 2004, decided to play roulette in a British casino. The winning of the businessman was astonishing – in the first night he managed to withdraw 2 million pounds, and in the second – about a million. Now, however, Green’s business is not going well – his Arcadia Ltd. in 2020 has launched bankruptcy proceedings.
Baccarat – $20 million.
2 or 3 cards for instant win – this is the principle of the game of baccarat. The game involves three fields: banker, draw and player. Fields banker and player are dealt cards, which are opened one by one. The winner is the one who is the first to score nine points. In the case of an equal number of points a draw is declared. The bet on the player and the banker is calculated with odds of 2, the draw – with odds of 9.
The famous poker player Phil Ivey was able to earn $20 million on baccarat in a few days. But such a win did not like the owners of the casinos, which played Phil. The trial lasted 13 years and the verdict was disappointing – Ivey was found guilty of violating the concept of the game, as he used a marriage in the cards when betting.
Poker – over $18 million
If in roulette and baccarat a lot depended on the players’ luck and randomness, in poker the class of the player, his psychology and the ability to adapt to the situation are much more important. In the course of the game the participants of the match are dealt two cards, and the other five cards are laid out one by one by the dealer. The player with the best combination on the table wins, or the player who forced his opponents to discard.
At The Big One For Drop WSOP tournament, Antonio Esfandiari won $18.3 million. The American was initially pegged as the main outsider of the event, but after the first day he climbed to fourth place in chip counts, successfully completing what he started in the finals.
Blackjack – $20 million
In the CIS countries, the game is widely known under the name “21”. The principle of the card game is simple – the player must score a number of points, which will either be equal to twenty-one, or as close to it as possible.
The biggest win in Blackjack is dated 1997, when the media mogul and founder of the World Series of Cricket Kerry Packer in an Australian casino has won $ 20 million. And the businessman had 20 hands in a row at once. The Australian is rumored to have left the croupier a million dollars in tips.
Slots – 39 million dollars
Extremely popular in recent years, slots have brought almost $ 40 million to Ethan Miller. Slots is a type of slot machine, where the player must catch a certain combination of numbers, pictures or symbols after scrolling. The better the combination – the greater the winnings.
Miller put in a slot machine only 100 dollars, and the output was the sum of 394 thousand times the original bet.