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« on: Apr 8th, 2004, 12:47pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A British man who has sold all his possessions, including his clothes, will stand in a rented tuxedo on Sunday and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.
 
If he wins, he doubles his money. If he loses, he will be left with only the television crew documenting his every move.
 
Ashley Revell, a 32-year-old Londoner, said he was worth about 75,000 pounds
($138,000) after he sold everything in March.
 
"I thought I was worth at least 100,000 pounds," he said in a telephone interview from Las Vegas, where he is putting in a week gambling about $3,000 in a bid to raise his pot.
 
By Wednesday, he was down $1,000.
 
Revell said he had planned to have a friend videotape his bet-it-all spin, but Britain's Sky One television decided it was worth a short reality series, called "Double or Nothing."
 
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.
 
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.
 
He had not decided yet whether to place his money or red or black on Sunday afternoon.
 
"I don't know, man," he said. "One of them is going to be the right thing to say and one is going to be the wrong thing."
 
He added that if he won he would probably take his winnings rather than spin again.
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« Reply #1 on: Apr 8th, 2004, 1:16pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Has he been checked for sanity?
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« Reply #2 on: Apr 8th, 2004, 1:45pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify Remove Remove
What sanity!
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« Reply #3 on: Apr 8th, 2004, 2:40pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Talk about an argument for a 12 step group...this man screams "intervention"
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« Reply #5 on: Apr 8th, 2004, 6:53pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Well its still interesting to see that someone is still as happy go lucky (or some should say crazy) as him... Well good luck to him! If he makes it, I think there are a few others who will go out of the closet and show the world of their bold approach in life...  
 
Shortcuts in life is kinda cool at times...
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I'm not sure "lucky" is the best word to describe him...  Grin
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« Reply #7 on: Apr 11th, 2004, 1:38pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
on Apr 8th, 2004, 8:44pm, Rhune wrote:
I'm not sure "lucky" is the best word to describe him...  Grin

 
And certainly not "happy" either.
 
This is another sad subject about addiction - gambling.  Anyone in this mode usually ends up on the street.  I've been searching around to find the outcome of his idiosy today.  I truely feel sorry for him.
 
As far as "luck" goes - whatever will happen today will have nothing to do with luck.  This is so pathetic, what he's about to do.  Unless......I wish.......he decided NOT to do this.
 
 
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« Reply #8 on: Apr 11th, 2004, 3:37pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
I think he wants to try new excitements in life that can really pay off or put him in rock bottom. Maybe he want something so bad and fast! Or maybe he is bored with life and he wants to try something new or just want some media attention...
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A British man who sold all his possessions, including his clothes, stood in a rented tuxedo on Sunday surrounded by family and friends and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.  
 
 
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He won't go home empty handed.  
 
 
Ashley Revell, a 32-year-old Londoner, sold all his possessions in March, took $135,300 to the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, did some low stakes gambling and then placed everything he had left on "Red."  
 
 
The wheel was spun, a crowd of supporters including his Mum and Dad from London went wild, the ball bobbled over the slots and landed on Red '7' -- and Revell walked away with $270,600.  
 
 
"It all happened so quickly, it was spinning before I knew it," Revell said, adding he did not intend to try to double it again. He gave a $600 tip to the croupier and plans to party -- and buy some clothes.  
 
 
"It's really down to my friends and family and Mum and Dad," he told Reuters Television. "I knew even if I lost I'd always have a home to go to."  
 
 
"I'm still against it," said his Dad. "He shouldn't have done it. He's a naughty boy. I tell my kids they shouldn't gamble. I've got four others and they're all going to want to go the same way."  
 
 
"It's just brilliant," said Ashley Hames, a friend from London in Las Vegas for the occasion. "He's put his neck on the line and got away with it. It's absolutely great."  
 
 
"It bobbled for a second and I just thought, 'Oh no, it's not going to do it,"' said another friend, James Frederick. "But it did and I'm made up for him. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy."  
 
 
Asked if he wanted to try his luck again, Revell said: "No that's it for me. I think he'd like me to do it again, but no that's it," gesturing to a casino host. "I don't want to ride my luck," he said as the champagne began to flow.  
 
 
This week, the gambling spirits had seemed against him. He put in a week gambling about $3,000 in a bid to raise his pot.  
 
 
By Wednesday, he was down $1,000.  
 
 
Revell, recently a professional gambler, said he decided to take a big plunge while he was still young and had raised the stakes as high as possible, including selling his clothes.  
 
 
"I like to do things properly," he said.  
 
 
Revell said he had planned to have a friend videotape his bet-it-all spin, but Britain's Sky One television decided it was worth a short reality series, called "Double or Nothing."  
 
 
Sky will not pay him, he says, but a crew from Dai4 Films has followed his preparations and covered the spin at the Plaza Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It also plans to follow him for a month afterward.  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
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In a way he deserved to lose it all for acting so foolishly
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« Reply #12 on: Apr 13th, 2004, 12:06am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
well... good for him that his luck has struck and not went home empty handed... but then.. i see that what he did is simply childish.. he maybe gambling his life's future just for a show... well.. the wise thing he did is just gamble between red and black because its just a 50/50 chance... hehehe....
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Talk about a lucky bugger. I heard this story the other day. he's lucky he didn't lose it all.  I bet his parents are glad he won it too or they would probably be taking care of his sorry butt again.  kabi958
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It certainly wasn't from a stroke of genius, now was it?
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