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Biggest lottery win
As known, all the greatest achievements are recorded by the Guinness Book of Records, and the biggest lottery win was no exception. As mentioned earlier, the absolute record is 390 million dollars or 286 million euros. It would seem, you have to be incredibly lucky, to get such wealth in an instant. In fact, such a lucky guy was not alone, but two at once, what is a unique event, because both winners guessed seven two-digit numbers. One winner lived in Georgia, another in New Jersey, they divided the winnings between themselves equally in 2007 year. After this news became official, the popularity of this lottery in the USA has grown several times, thanks to which one of the records was set - more 1 million lottery tickets sold per day.
The biggest roulette winnings
Everything, who has ever been to a casino, know perfectly well, that winning at roulette is not easy and you really need to be happy, extremely lucky person. Considering roulette as a way to make money is stupid, since any device is aimed only at making money in the casino, otherwise it doesn't make sense. One big win accounts for a million defeats and broken lives, so don't play with your life, because it may not be worth it. Despite this, many play, and that means, there are those, who nevertheless achieves his goal and wins substantial sums of money. There are not so many known cases in history and they can all be described, by highlighting just a couple of lines. Joseph Jaggers is lucky, which at the end of the 19th century won 325 one thousand dollars, playing at the Monte Carlo Casino.
Charles Wells also made good money, who hit the jackpot in 1 million francs. After a couple of months, he repeated his achievement, because of what he was suspected of fraud, but they could not prove it. The last of the "lucky" roulette - Gonzalo Garcia Pelayo, which at the end of the last century was only 2 earned almost 2 million dollars.
The biggest poker wins
Winning a poker tournament is a real opportunity to make money not only on luck, but also knowledge. The biggest win was received by Jimmy Gold - 12 million dollars. AT 2006 poker world championship was held in Las Vegas, which was attended by 9 thousands of people, Jimmy became that lucky, that he was able to "sit out" all his rivals.
Eric Seidel is another record holder, who made playing poker tournaments a job for himself. The man devoted his whole life to the card game, resulting in a total of almost 15 million dollars. Also among the winners are Pius Heinz and Jonathan Duhamel, who won almost 9 million dollars in 2011 and 2010 years respectively.
The biggest winnings in Russia
Albert Begrakyan - the lucky one from St. Petersburg, who is playing in Gosloto, at 2009 won 100 million rubles. There was another big winner that same year, it was Evgeny Sidorov from Moscow, who got in the lottery 35 million dollars. Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova - a resident of Ufa, which in 2001 year before New Year bought 6 lottery tickets and won 30 million rubles.
Another big win in 2001 year was 11,5 million rubles, but in 2004 year managed to hit the jackpot in 20 million rubles. In general, such winnings are quite enough even in our country., but they are all already smaller, therefore there is not much news about them.
The largest win in the Russian Lotto
For sure, everyone has heard of a television game called "Russian Lotto" - lottery, where it all depends on luck. As known, this company offers the largest prize pool and huge winnings. TV show jackpot is 100 million rubles, however, no one could win it. At the same time, there are a couple of major victories, which cannot be ignored. The biggest win in this game was 29,5 million rubles, the name of the winner is hidden by the company, all that is known is, that this is a resident of Yaroslavl.
