Ashley Revell, 32, sold everything he had, including clothes, in order to gather up as much money as possible so he could place it on one single bet on the roulette wheel in Las Vegas. He became world famous over a night after that the media started to write about him. Everyone wanted to know more about this crazy guy.
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Joined: Mar '10
Location: United States
Age: 42 (M)
Posts: 11
Ya its real alright, there was a bbc hour long show all about it from the beggining over a year ago. He made a deal to "sell" his name for 17k of the money he raised to do promos for the company for 2 years after he made the bet win or lose.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: United States
Age: 33 (M)
Posts: 123
This kind of reminds me of Stu Ungar. Just the way Stus life was a gamble and he would always gamble right down to his last dollar. This is an amazing story though. Kind of makes you wonder what would have happened if he had lost.
Joined: Oct '10
Location: Norway
Age: 53 (F)
Posts: 82
Oh my God! Cant imagine how he felt waiting for the right coulor. I played roulette too, but this way must have felt like russian roulette.... Life or death.... Lucky guy though
Joined: May '09
Location: Croatia
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 20507
this is so sick decision for me!you must have balls to do something like this(if its true),but I couldnt sold everything,put on red and then wait what will happen!so sick...
Joined: Oct '10
Location: United States
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 1
man that was great i got teary eyed. i think its awsome when good things happen to anyone. hopefully we can all expierience a feeling like that atleast once in our lives
------------ man that was great i got teary eyed. i think its awsome when good things happen to anyone. hopefully we can all expierience a feeling like that atleast once in our lives
