Poker pro wins tournament for �42,000 & bets everything on 1 roulette spin!

Most poker players who get to win an insane amount of money after a grueling couple of days work at a high-stakes poker tournament usually tend to call it a day, right? But this one thought he's not had enough yet, and guess what he did? He bet ALL his winnings in just one roulette spin!

Team PokerStars pro poker player Jake Cody bet £42,670 (around $59,992) on black moments after he won the top cash prize at the UK Poker Championships at the Dusk Till Dawn casino in Nottingham on February 25, Sunday.

He was the victor of the £2,200 High Roller Event, but at that point he seemed not to be satisfied with winning the poker tournament. He then gets up and walks over to the roulette table, where he puts down his entire tournament prize on the fate of just one spin of the wheel.

He bet everything on black. The wheel was spun and the tension from the spectators grew as it spins for a long time before it slowly came to a stop.

There are those rare instances that extremely good fortune really does favor the brave, because the ball only went and landed on Black 22, which meant Jake doubled his winnings in that instant, landing him a whopping £85,340 ($119,982) jackpot!

He took to Twitter to announce his incredible back-to-back win, writing "Feeling damn good today!"

The owner of the Dusk Till Dawn himself, Rob Yong, was the one who spun the ball, while fellow poker player Ant Samuel took a video and posted it on Youtube:

In his career so far, the 29-year-old British poker player has won massive amounts at the European poker tournament in Deauville, Normandy, where he won nearly £750,000, and he won again in London where he went home with £273,000.

Since dropping out of university in 2010, he has so far scooped over £2.8 million in poker winnings.

Not the first time in roulette history
This isn't actually the very first time that someone has done a bet-it-all on a simple bet of red or black. In fact, Cody's bet is just a meager one compared to a fellow Brit who once wagered absolutely everything he had.
Back in 2010, a British gambler named Ashley Revell sold all his worldly possessions, including his home and clothing, and gambled £76,840 (US$135,300) - everything - on red at the Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Great for Revell that he won! Therefore, he ended up doubling his money to £153,680 ($270,600) before he wisely decided to walk away. He then used the money on a short-lived poker business and the rest he used on a cross-Europe road-trip on a motorcycle, where he ended up meeting his future wife.

Source:
http://ift.tt/2FSIFDB
https://youtu.be/IWJOtbZUpP4

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