Movie star Million-Greenback Bets – The Prime 10 All-Time Winners And Losers
Celebrities are recognized for incomes big quantities of cash from the music, films, TV exhibits, and sporting occasions they entertain us with. Nonetheless, they aren’t essentially recognized for doing sensible issues with that cash, which additionally entertains us. Listed below are our picks for probably the most well-known bets positioned by celebrities, together with their outcomes.
Michael Jordan, who’s most definitely to not the sport of golf what he was to the sport of basketball, might or might not have misplaced greater than $1 million betting on a golf sport in 1991. (Picture: golf.com)
10. Michael Jordan
1991
Loss: $1.25M
Venue: Golf
There isn’t any supply for this aside from a 1993 e-book titled Michael & Me: Our Playing Habit . . . My Cry For Assist! by a San Diego businessman named Richard Esquinas. So imagine what you’ll. However the creator claims that he and Michael Jordan confronted one another in a 1993 golf match at Aviara Golf Course in San Diego that price Jordan $1.25M.
Our matches continuously got here all the way down to $100K putts with occasional swings of upwards of a quarter-million {dollars},” Esquinas wrote. “Personally, I felt I used to be a managed gambler till Michael and I went berserk in a single interval of roughly 10 days in September 1991, once I went from probably greater than $200K in debt to $1.25M forward.”
Esquinas claimed Jordan fell $626K in debt from their golf wagers, then doubled down and misplaced once more. The $1.25M debt finally was decreased to $902K by nonetheless extra golf wagers. Esquinas claimed he lastly settled for $300K as a result of he feared Jordan won’t pay him your entire quantity.
Final Combating Championship President Dana White is banned from the blackjack desk on the Palms On line casino. (Picture: lowkickmma.com)
9. Dana White
Could 2014
Win: $2M
Venue: Blackjack
In 2014, Dana White — the Final Combating Championship (UFC) president value a reported $500M — received $2M over three months enjoying $25K-per-hand blackjack on the Palms. The Las Vegas on line casino responded by halving his credit score and limiting his desk play to $5K per hand. They determined to ban him from blackjack on the on line casino just a few months later.
Two years earlier, White’s blackjack credit score line was equally restricted, and White responded by boycotting the Palms and taking his UFC fights, a staple for The Pearl on the Palms venue, with him. (The Exhausting Rock hosted the Final Fighter 16 Finale on Dec. 15, 2012.)
However the icy relationship was thawed, the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal reported, when a brand new Palms chief govt eradicated White’s blackjack limits and despatched White a $5k bottle of his favourite wine (2001 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Montrachet).
The Palms tried to melt the blow this time by sending White a championship belt studying “Palms Undisputed Blackjack Champion.” White responded by stating that UFC occasions would nonetheless be held on the Palms. Nonetheless, up to now, solely three extra have been.
Rapper 50 Cent places his cash the place his mouth is in relation to his hometown soccer group. (Picture:economictimes.indiatimes.com)
8. 50 Cent
Feb. 5, 2012
Win: $1M
Venue: Tremendous Bowl XLVI
In 2012, 50 Cent received a cool mil by betting a cool mil that his hometown New York Giants would take the New England Patriots in Tremendous Bowl XLVI. The Giants pulled off an upset win, 21-17.
A 12 months earlier than, 50 additionally received massive by betting $500K on the Giants beating the San Francisco 49ers within the 2011 NFC Championship sport, which they did 20-17.
Poker champ Phil Ivey reportedly guess greater than a fifth of his lifetime felt earnings on a single soccer sport. (Picture: moneycasino.org)
7. Phil Ivey
Feb. 7, 2010
Loss: $2M
Venue: Tremendous Bowl XLIV
Ten-time World Sequence of Poker champ Phil Ivey’s lifetime felt earnings complete $9.3M. That’s so much, however betting greater than a fifth of your value on a single occasion is rarely advisable, even should you’re betting on the favourite to win. Tremendous Bowl XLIV belonged to Drew Brees, not Peyton Manning, and the underdog New Orleans Saints smashed the Indiana Colts, 31-17. The Colts have been favored by 5 factors, and Ivey guess on the moneyline, which might have been a smaller payout anyway.
Ivey’s dangerous beat made for among the finest sports activities headlines of the Web period when ChicagoNow.com pronounced: “Colts Not Greatest Loser in Tremendous Bowl XLIV.”
Charlie Sheen has been recognized to take “successful” to a different dimension. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
6. Charlie Sheen
Dec. 6, 2008
Win: $1M
Venue: Boxing
In a 2012 interview with the New York Occasions, actor Charlie Sheen stated he had a dream that Manny Pacquiao would “beat [Oscar] De La Hoya like a drum, and he did.” However when the win elicited no emotional response in any way, Sheen stated he gave up betting.
Betting didn’t surrender on Sheen, nonetheless. In 2011, on the top of his “successful,” BetUS.com provided odds of Sheen getting arrested within the subsequent 3 months at 5:6 and of Sheen being institutionalized at 25:1.
After he made it massive, Ashton Kutcher claimed he used his ‘dumb actor’ picture to entrance a sports activities betting syndicate. (Picture: giantfreakingrobot.com)
5. Ashton Kutcher
2013
Wins: $750k
Venue: Faculty soccer
Oddly, one thing Ashton Kutcher did whereas changing Charlie Sheen in TV’s “Two and a Half Males” lands him alongside Sheen on our record. In 2013, the actor instructed Esquire journal that he fronted a playing syndicate and used his “dumb actor” persona to win big sums of cash betting on faculty soccer for half a season.
This was after he was already wealthy and well-known!
“It was fairly enjoyable,” Kutcher instructed the journal. “Then they (the sportsbooks) caught on.”
When requested to elucidate the syndicate’s successful technique, Kutcher did his finest: “In soccer, you’re principally in search of numerical anomalies … It’s actually sophisticated. You gotta know a number of knowledge factors — how this group performed on numerous surfaces, in several climate — so much. However these guys might do it.”
Actor Ben Affleck performs a hand of blackjack with TV host Maria Menounos on this undated picture. (Picture: denverpost.com)
4. Ben Affleck
2000-2001
Wins: $940K
Venue: Blackjack
In response to the New York Publish, actor Ben Affleck received $140K whereas enjoying blackjack together with his pal Matt Damon on the Exhausting Rock Las Vegas and “gave away each one among his chips to on line casino staffers — tipping his sellers, waitress, and door boys as a lot as $5K.” A 12 months later, Affleck reportedly received $800K on the identical on line casino “whereas enjoying three simultaneous arms at $20K a pop.”
In April 2014, a cloud of suspicion fashioned over these earlier wins when the Exhausting Rock Las Vegas caught the long run Mr. J-Lo counting playing cards. As a result of he was a star, he was solely banned for all times from the on line casino’s blackjack desk. (Customary observe is a ban from the on line casino itself.)
Affleck instructed Particulars journal on the time: “There have been numerous casinos that stated, ‘Hey, you may’t play blackjack right here. We all know you rely playing cards. However, you recognize, you’re welcome to come back, do no matter you need, see a present, have dinner. We’ll comp ya. Play roulette, we all know you don’t play craps. However hang around, we nonetheless need your presence and enterprise.’”
Card counting — a technique of utilizing likelihood to foretell the subsequent hand — just isn’t technically unlawful. But it surely doesn’t make you common with on line casino managers should you’re caught.
“I imply the truth that being good on the sport is in opposition to the principles at a on line casino ought to let you know one thing a few on line casino,” Affleck stated. “There’s a number of hospitality, backslapping, once they assume you’re gonna are available in and dump cash, and in the event that they assume you would possibly depart with some cash, it’s like, ‘You already know what? Why don’t you attempt craps or roulette?’”
NBA nice Charles Barkley claims he has misplaced $10M playing throughout his life however doesn’t have an issue. (Picture: nbahoopsonline.com)
3. Charles Barkley
2005
Loss: $2.5M
Venue: Blackjack
Charles Barkley most definitely didn’t observe his success as a basketball star with even better success as a gambler. In a Could 2006 interview with ESPN, the basketball Corridor of Famer admitted dropping $2.5M throughout six hours of blackjack one evening a 12 months earlier. He by no means recognized which on line casino.
Barkley has admitted to dropping 1,000,000 {dollars} greater than 30 instances in his life and estimates his lifetime losses at $10 million.
“It’s silly,” the previous Philadelphia 76ers and Houston Rockets star instructed ESPN. “It’s a nasty behavior. I’ve an issue. However, the issue is when you may’t afford it. I can afford to gamble. I didn’t kill myself once I misplaced two and a half million {dollars}. I prefer to gamble and I’m not going to give up.”
In 2008, Wynn Las Vegas sued Barkley for $400K in playing markers it prolonged him the 12 months earlier than. He paid off the debt in addition to $40K in lawyer charges.
Boxing nice Floyd Mayweather is without doubt one of the most daring (some would say reckless) sports activities gamblers in historical past. (Picture: Instagram)
2. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Feb. 2, 2014
Loss: $13M
Venue: Tremendous Bowl XLVIII
Boxing nice Floyd Mayweather is alleged to have lived as much as his nickname, “Cash Could,” in 2014. In response to a number of web sources, he guess $10.4M on the Denver Broncos to win the Tremendous Bowl and $2.6M for them to steer on the half. These bets have been so massive, Mayweather allegedly needed to place them with seven totally different companies.
As most soccer followers bear in mind, the Seattle Seahawks triumphed 43-8 over the Broncos, so Mayweather’s guess would have been misplaced. That’s if he ever positioned it. The Las Vegas native, who’s value a reported $565M, by no means copped to putting it.
Between 2012 and 2015, Mayweather did put up display screen photographs of his betting slips on his Instagram and Twitter accounts. Not surprisingly, most have been for his successful bets. From there, we all know he received $1M by betting $1.1M on the Oregon Geese to beat the Arizona State Wildcats on Oct. 18, 2012. He additionally received $600K by betting $815K on the Denver Broncos to defeat the New York Jets by greater than 7.5 factors on Oct. 12, 2014. And a Could 21, 2015, guess on the Golden State Warriors over the Houston Rockets netted him $200K earlier than taxes.
Mayweather’s most infamous sports activities win would have been the payday he pocketed for putting $400K on himself to beat Conor McGregor of their Aug. 26, 2017, gentle middleweight bout. In response to ESPN, Mayweather visited the M Resort to separate the cash between a guess on himself successful at -200 odds and the bout ending in beneath 9.5 rounds.
Nonetheless, the frazzled sportsbook required time to type out the legality of fighters betting on themselves. (The Nevada State Athletic Fee has no guidelines in opposition to it. Nonetheless, fighters clearly can not guess in opposition to themselves.) Mayweather reportedly bought bored with ready to put the guess and left the on line casino.
Pete Rose’s wagering bought him banned from baseball, and made him ineligible for its Corridor of Fame, for all times. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
1. Pete Rose
1987
Bets: Someplace between $104k-$520k
Venue: Baseball
When then-Cincinnati Reds supervisor Pete Rose wagered on 52 video games by which his personal group performed in 1987, the bets ($2K-$10K) have been small in comparison with the others on this record. But they have been probably the most well-known and costliest celeb bets of all time. They led to Charlie Hustle’s lifetime ban from the game and made him ineligible for election to the Baseball Corridor of Fame.
“I guess on my group each evening,” Rose instructed ESPN Radio’s Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann in 2007. “I didn’t guess on my group 4 nights per week … I guess on my group to win each evening as a result of I like my group, I imagine in my group.”
